Editing Dewey Decimal Classification (section)

=== Treatment of women ===
It has also been argued by [[Hope A. Olson]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Hope A| author-link = Hope A. Olson|date=1998 |title=Mapping Beyond Dewey's Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains. |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/8210/librarytrendsv47i2f_opt.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live |journal=Library Trends |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=233–254 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131202254/https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/8210/librarytrendsv47i2f_opt.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref> that the placement of topics related to women shows [[implicit bias]], but this has been simpler to address than the religion schema. Some changes made so far have been in numerical proximity, altering the placement of topics relative to each other. For example, in older versions of the DDC, some categories regarding women were adjacent to categories on [[etiquette]];{{sfnp|Olson|2002|p=8}} the placement of these categories next to each other imposed an association of etiquette with women, rather than treating it as [[gender-neutral]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Olson |first=Hope A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883391272 |title=The power to name : locating the limits of subject representation in libraries |date=2002 |isbn=978-94-017-3435-6 |location=Dordrecht, The Netherlands |pages=8 |oclc=883391272}}</ref> This was changed in DDC version 17, in 1965.{{sfnp|Olson|2002|p=8}}