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‘Making the internet less sexist’: the Electrifying Women Wikithon at LSE Women’s Library

9th July 202018th October 2019 by Emily Rees Koerner

Wikithons are an effective way to get more women’s careers and lives recorded online. Learn more about how an Electrifying Women and WES wikithon helped to make the internet less sexist.

Categories Events and Reviews Tags Wikipedia, Wikithon, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM

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