Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Taskforces/Women in technology

Scope of this taskforce edit

This taskforce, part of WikiProject Women's History, aims to improve the availability and quality of articles on Wikipedia about women involved in technology. We seek to analyze not only how technology has impacted the lives of women, but also how women have shaped the technologies that have become a part of modern life. The following are explicitly included as within scope:

women as technical workers (examples: women as telegraph/telephone/railroad workers)
women in engineering (examples: women as civil engineers, computer programmers, mechanical engineers)
women's thoughts and reflections on technology in the fields of literature, history, and philosophy

This taskforce is not intended to address women's contributions to related fields such as science, healthcare, and politics.

Women of all nations are explicitly included in this taskforce's scope.

Overall goals/tasks to be done edit

Ensure that existing biographies of women in technology are included in WikiProject Women's History.
Where necessary, improve the quality of articles about women in technology
Create new articles about notable women in technology, if they do not already exist
Create general articles about technology that focus on women's involvement

Collaboration with other WikiProjects edit

We should look into collaborating with related wikiprojects/taskforces on this subject.

Women in Science taskforce
Women in Healthcare taskforce

General starting points edit

Category:Women in technology

Work to be done edit

Overview articles by country edit

Goals:

Countries:

Organizations edit

List of organizations:

Victorian Women's Post and Telegraph Association (Australia)
Dansk Kvindesamfund (Danish Women's Society)
Electrical Association for Women (United Kingdom)
IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group (USA)
Commercial Telegraphers Union of America (USA)

Goal:

Create/update entries on organizations related to women in technology

Biographies edit

Goals:

Create categories for women by country
Bring article level for each woman up to at least "start" (not a stub).
create articles for notable women who don't yet have them.
create and/or improve entries for women in the following special categories:

Engineers/Inventors - 19th Century edit

Harriet Morrison Irwin (1828-1897), 1st US woman to patent an architectural innovation
Amanda Jones (inventor) (1835-1914), American, invented canning process
Clara M. Brinkerhoff (1830-?) American musician, composer, and telegraph inventor

Telegraph/Telephone/Railroad Workers edit

Wireless/Radio Pioneers edit

ENIAC Programmers and Developers - 1940s edit

(Note: Stubs exist for many of these biographical entries, but they need to be expanded and improved with additional references and cites)

Computer Engineers/Programmers - 1950s-1960s edit

Video Game Developers - 1970s - present edit

(Note: these are mostly living persons, but now is the time to document their lives and achievements)

Activists/Social Networkers edit

Miscellaneous edit

History of Women in Engineering

General resources edit

Online sources edit

The following sources are sufficiently reliable to use as references, and may be of use:

SWE Pioneers, oral histories from the Society of Women Engineers
Institution of Engineering and Technology archives
WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame

Books etc edit

Willard, Frances E., and Livermore, Mary A., Eds. American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with over 1,400 Portraits. New York, Chicago, and Springfield, Ohio: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897.