Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 20.03% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

In 2021, Women in Red is focusing on women's rights as a year-long initiative.

Anyone can take part in this event. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women who have recently passed away, including their writings or other works.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter) and via nominations to In The News.

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you tweet about any of the articles, upload any of the images to Pinterest, or successfully nominate for In The News, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to women's rights, broadly-construed, are listed below:

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

• Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion[1],[2],[3],[4] (Note: first link provides a bunch of affiliated academics in the field of human rights/statelessness studies. It's currently a redirect, but since they launched a peer reviewed journal and do publishing[5] seems like it should be a separate article.)

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post in on Instagram

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page

• Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication
• Alison H. Clarkson - 15 January 2022
• Unity Dow - 15 November
• Women's suffrage in New Jersey - 10 September
• Maria Karapetyan 26 July
• Suffrage Torch - 27 June
• Beverly White - 24 June
• Rebecca Dayan - 12 June
• Sarah Blizzard - DYK on 2 June, 2021
• Gertrude Michelson - 31 May
• Zahra Mohamed Ahmad - 13 April
• Tonia Shand - 2 April

• ... that Alison H. Clarkson, the majority leader of the Vermont Senate, worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop's board? (2022-01-15)
• ... that the 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was the first recall held in the city since 1975? (2022-01-06)
• ... that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it? (2021-11-21)
• ... that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow (pictured) took legal actions as a plaintiff, legal counsellor, and judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator? (2021-11-15)
• ... that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom? (2021-11-13)
• ... that women originally had the right to vote in New Jersey thanks to its constitution until an 1807 act removed that right? (2021-09-10)
• ... that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch? (2021-06-27)
• ... that despite Beverly White's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995? (2021-06-24)
• ... that actress Rebecca Dayan developed a love for acting while being raised in a hotel? (2021-06-12)
• ... that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners? (2021-06-02)
• ... that Gertrude Michelson sat on the board of trustees of Columbia University before it began admitting female students? (2021-05-31)
• ... that Zahra Mohamed Ahmad (pictured), who gives legal advice at the Somali Women Development Centre, is said to be a Woman of Courage? (2021-04-12)
• ... that Tonia Shand became Australia's first woman high commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1988? (2021-04-02)
• ... that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian? (2021-01-28)
• ... that Elena Arizmendi Mejia organized the Neutral White Cross when the Red Cross refused to assist the wounded insurgents during the Mexican Revolution? (2015-04-05)
• ... that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra? (2009-04-01)

• Madeline Davis (2021-05-06)
• Deborah Rhode (2021-01-13)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2021

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  Birgitte Berg Nielsen
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  I like the pic
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  Lone Dutch WW2 pilot
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  Joanna Southcott's Box in The Panacea Museum
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  Jacky Wright Microsoft vp
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  Gloria Jaase-Nkundanyirazo
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  Barbara Lison leading librarian
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  various leading suffragettes
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  Minnie Baldock suffragette
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  4th Annual Potomac Korean Washingtonian Award
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  AMISOM - women’s political participation for women in Somalia
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  Christina- Antoinette Neofotistou Femicon museum
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  Mary Jane Clarke first suffragette martyr
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  Beatrice Webb new versions
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  Hester Thrale
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  Mabel Barltrop daughter of god
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  Batula Sheikh Ahmed Gaballe
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  Women Political Participation Forum - Mogadishu
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  studying how to change women's opportunities
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  Brig General Lisa J Hou
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  sample load
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  French aeronauts
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  Doreen Nabwire
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  Storm
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  Women World Leaders at COP26
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  Batula Sheikh Ahmed Gaballe
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  George Eliot
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  Johanne Andersen
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  Thora Ingemann Drøhse
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  Najiba Ayubi
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  Vida Newsom
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  Frances Squire Potter
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  Irene Osgood Andrews
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  Flora Dunlap
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  Mary Tenison Woods
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  Isabella Goldstein
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  Tamara Dávila
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  Clara Barck Welles
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  Maybelle Stephens Mitchell
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  Representative Ajay Pittman
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  Emma Guffey Miller with Senator Burke, author of the Burke Constitutional Amendment for Equal Rights for Women
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  Esther Dunshee Bower
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  Adena Miller Rich
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  Debora Diniz
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  Tithi Bhattacharya
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  Rebecca Nagle
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  Blanche Wiesen Cook
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  Emma Willard
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  Martha I. Wood
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  Florence Ellinwood Allen
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  Mary Augusta Safford casting her vote
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  Gertrude Foster Brown
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  Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
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  Ratification Day at Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
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  Elizabeth Merrill Bass
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  Julie R. Jenney
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  Maud Wood Park
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  Maud Wood Park
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  Maria Luisa Garcia Zuniga de Gonzalez
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  Marie Hjelmer
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  Mary L. Guyton
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  Gertrude Gouverneur Clemson Smith
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  Alice Kiernan
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  Henrietta Baldy Lyon
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  Lucy Kennedy Miller
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  Mrs. Richard S. Quigley
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  Paulina Luisi
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  Constance Drexel
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  Nellie Andrews Gazzam
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  Cherríe Moraga
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  Cherríe Moraga
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  Eva Munson Smith
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  Eva Munson Smith
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  Eva Munson Smith
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  Eva Munson Smith
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  Mabel Ford
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  Sara Cone Bryant
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  Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen
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  Monica Jones (activist)
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  Fanny Reading
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  Fanny Reading
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  Fanny Reading
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  Fanny Reading
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  Andrea Ritchie
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  Imara Jones
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  Melissa Gira Grant
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  Millie Bailey
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  Thora Knudsen

• Invitation: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2021
• Women's rights | 2021 year-long initiative Template:WIR-188: {{WIR-188}}