Jessica Wade : 1,700 Wikipedia Entries on Women Scientists and still doing it

 

Jessica Wade, a 34-year-old British scientist, has been writing a Wikipedia entry every day to highlight the achievements of women scientists whose contributions to the world have either gone unnoticed or remain largely unacknowledged, no thanks to the systemic racial bias in Wikipedia's coverage as well as that of mainstream media. Wade believes that diversity matters in the scientific community because diverse minds come up with diverse solutions, and not operating from the privileged white male gaze affords them viewpoints into other ways of living that perhaps need scientific innovation. This is why highlighting the achievements of women scientists, in a field largely dominated by white men, became essential to Wade.