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redirected to the article “hero”, and its emblematic figures are mostly male. Next to the issues of authorship and subject matters, the writing style and structure can often be problematic. A classic example of this is the number of articles about women that starts with “this woman was the sister/wife of this famous man” in their first or second sentence.
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Logo for the project Just For The Record – addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like
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Just For The Record is a project addressing how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools like
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189:- Canadian artist based in Brussels, organizer of many Knowledge edit-a-thons and presentations as part of the project
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