Gender Discrimination on Wikipedia

I had taken a 100 series class with Professor Cartwright a few quarters ago, and recall us listen to a guest speaker. She was an avid editor on Wikipedia and discussed to the class how she began editing with a pseudonym that did not reveal her gender; however, once her name was revealed, she began being more harshly critiqued for her work. When we were given this Wikipedia assignment in Comm 146, I remembered that previous discussion and wanted to hopefully write about that issue on a wiki page.

At first, I had trouble deciding which article would fit best with this topic. The articles on pseudonym, systemic bias, discrimination, and glass ceiling were the four articles I was deciding on. I decided to edit the "Discrimination" page because it had a section on sexual discrimination, and had touched a bit on work related gender conflicts.

Before:

During: After completing my paragraph, I realized that I had missed a citation, and had cited my sources in an incorrect format. 

After:

Username: an108

Before hearing the guest speaker, and learning about feminist IT, I was not aware of the issues that women face in online workplace settings. I assumed that Wikipedia had a fairly equal representation of all sexes and genders. However, by doing my own research and editing this article, I was able to see gender stereotypes (i.e. the broom when I did my citation incorrectly) and bias that works amonst Wikipedia.