There are many fantastic ways to raise the profile of women in STEM. One that has been in the news recently is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The AASWomen editors were inspired last week after seeing an article about a physicist who wrote 270 Wikipedia profiles for female scientists.Read more here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientist-pens-270-wikipedia-pages-in-a-year-so-female-scientists-get-noticed_us_5b574eeee4b0b15aba92c0d5
There are a number of resources online for how to host your own edit-a-thon. One example from 500 Women Scientists can be found here:
https://www.sciencerising.org/2018/07/23/hosting-an-edit-a-thon/
A great example of a successful event at UNC can be seen here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/Chapel_Hill_NC
Let us know if you decide to host an edit-a-thon and we'll include it in a AASWomen's newsletter!
