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

Scope of this taskforce

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

• 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

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

• Women in Science taskforce
• Women in Healthcare taskforce

General starting points

• Category:Women in technology

Work to be done

Overview articles by country

Goals:

Countries:

Organizations

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

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

• 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

• Julia O'Connor
• Leah Rosenfeld
• Ma Kiley/Mattie C. Kuhn/Mattie Kuhn[1]
• Mary Macaulay
• Louisa Dunkley
• Women in the telegraph industry

Wireless/Radio Pioneers

• Graynella Packer
• Mabelle Kelso
• Gladys Kathleen Parkin
• Women in early radio
• Martha Wilkerson see GI Jive

ENIAC Programmers and Developers - 1940s

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

• Kay Antonelli (McNulty)
• Jean Bartik
• Betty Holberton
• Marlyn Meltzer
• Frances Spence
• Ruth Teitelbaum
• Margaret R. Fox
• Adele Goldstine
• Klara Dan von Neumann
• Kay McNulty

Computer Engineers/Programmers - 1950s-1960s

• Thelma Estrin
• Joyce Currie Little
• Doris R. Entwisle

Video Game Developers - 1970s - present

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

• Dona Baily
• Carol Shaw
• Carla Meninsky
• Julie Hoshizaki
• Roberta Williams
• Dani Bunten Berry
• Brenda Brathwaite
• Anne Westfall
• Connie Goldman
• Anita Clock

Activists/Social Networkers

• Juliana Rotich
• Mariéme Jamme
• Nmachi Jidenma
• Karen Rubin

Miscellaneous

• History of Women in Engineering

General resources

Online sources

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

• 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.