The media review presents every month a selection of articles from different media sources on “gender and development” issues. the list of articles is regularly updated during the current month.

July 2018

1-15 July

• Countries Need to Use Gender Data to Track SDG Progress. Here’s How. (News Deeply)
• Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments (The New York Times)
• One in four female workers at World Bank has felt sexually harassed, poll shows (El Pais)
• Gender Equality Top 100 – The Most Influential People in Global Policy (Apolitical)
• In London’s city hall, we’ve got a new plan to close the gender gap (Apolitical)
• German women can now find out what men earn — why don’t they? (Apolitical)
• Cervical cancer prevention in Thailand—a model of success (The Lancet)
• First Company in the Pacific obtains Global Business Certification for Gender Equality (International Finance Corporation)
•  Council of Europe Adopts Its Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023 (Council of Europe)
• Rohingya Girls Speak Out About Their Hopes, Fears & Needs (Plan International)
• The Nigerian Schoolgirls Helping Trafficked Women Rebuild Their Lives (Women Advancement Deeply)
• Their terrifying last moments: A decade of domestic violence deaths in Hindu and Sikh communities (The ABC)
• European Observatory on Femicide launched in Malta (University of Malta)
• Countering violence against women requires raising awareness of its multiple forms, stepping up comprehensive responses, say OSCE meeting participants (Organization for Security & Co-Operation in Europe)
• Why many women in India refuse water during a heatwave (BBC News)
• Government to proceed with referendum on woman’s place in home (The Irish Times)
• The crop that put women on top in Zanzibar (BBC News)
• Why bans persist on women voting across Pakistan (Herald)
• These Women Were Told Not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team (The New York Times)
• Countries Need to Use Gender Data to Track SDG Progress. Here’s How (News Deeply)
• For Ethiopian Women, Work Abroad Is Opportunity and Risk of a Lifetime (News Deeply)

16- 31 July

• Face of Finance May Soon Be More Female, at Least in China (Bloomberg)
• Young Latin Americans see violence against women as normal: Survey (Reuters)
• Women speak out ahead of Zimbabwean election (JASS)
• New Zealand Grants Domestic Violence Victims Paid Leave (The New York Times)
• Algerian females have access to public space, but in controlled, restricted, and conditional ways (Carnegie Middle-East Center)
• Argentina raises hopes with $300 allowance for orphans of femicide (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
  From where I stand: “I am among the few women who aspire to a seat in the Adamawa State House of Representatives”  (UN Women)
• FGM performed in clinics can make it dangerously attractive (United Nations Population Fund)
• In Mexico, female soccer players take centre stage to break gender stereotypes  (UN Women)
• Backing Up Women With Facts and Figures (Pass Blue)
• Overlooked No More: Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe (The New York Times)
• ‘An Entire Community Got Together to Rape a Child’: India Recoils at Girl’s Assault (The New York Times)
• When Wives Earn More Than Husbands, Neither Partner Likes to Admit It (The New York Times)
• As U.S. and Rwanda Battle Over Used Clothes, Garment Workers Lose Out (News Deeply)

Videos

• Family Planning in Remote Nepal (United Nations Population Fund)
• Thorns & Silk – Women in Palestine Succeed in Non-Traditional Jobs (Culture Unplugged)
• 15 Afghan Women Break Barriers by Training as Deminers (VOA News)

See Also