Gender in the Media: August 2018
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.
August 2018
16-31 August
- Recognizing the rights of domestic workers (International Labour Organization)
- Will migrant domestic workers in the Gulf ever be safe from abuse? (News Deeply)
- Asking job applicants what they earn ‘traps women in low pay’ (Reuters)
- Men Who Advocate for Others in the Workplace Face Backlash (Scientific American)
- In the words of Spartak Kosta: “The media should raise awareness about the issue of trafficking of women and girls” (UN Women)
- Death of 10-year-old girl prompts first FGM prosecution in Somalia’s history (The Guardian)
- The 10 worst countries in the world for women (Business Insider)
- The Unwanted: A Haunting Look at the Rohingya Who Escaped Ethnic Cleansing (The Intercept)
- Saudi Arabia plans to execute first female political activist (The Independent)
- Teaching Boys to Explore Gender in Patriarchal Societies – India Study (Brookings)
- Study finds less corruption in countries where more women are in government (EurekAlert)
- Kenya – grandmother defend yourself groups – against sexual assault (Open Society Foundation)
- Inside Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women (BBC News)
- Temporarily displaced pensions: how pensioners in Ukraine’s occupied territories survive against all odds (ODR)
- Guatemala – High Femicide & Challenges of Prevention & Reportage (Anrows)
- Children and Women with Disabilities, More Likely to Face Discrimination (Inter Press Service)
1-15 August
- Brazil’s Supreme Court Considers Decriminalizing Abortion (The New York Times)
- Street Cred: Tanzania’s Women Traders Get Chance to Join Formal Economy (News Deeply)
- Why Most Bangladeshi Women Still Don’t Have a Bank Account (News Deeply)
- ‘They Are My Sisters’: Diary of a Land Rights Activist in Rural India (News Deeply)
- Indonesia girl jailed for abortion after being raped by brother (The Guardian)
- South African women march against gender-based violence (Aljazeera)
- Thousands of women protest against spy cameras, gender-biased investigations (ABC News)
- Panama creates special gender violence police squad (TRT World)
- Report: Japanese Medical School Deducted Points From Exam Scores Of Female Applicants (NPR)
- What the best conferences do to improve gender equality (Quartz)
- Experts say gender equality indispensable for sustainable development (Jamaica Observer)
- For Economic Growth, Indonesia Should Further Gender Equality: McKinsey (Jakarta Globe)
- Argentina holds historic abortion vote as 1m women rally to demand change (The Guardian)