Gender in the Media: November 2018
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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.
November 2018
16-30 November
- Why Female-Friendly Toilets Need to Become a Hot News Topic (News Deeply)
- Making Gains for Women in STEM Fields Will Take More Effort (The New York Times)
- Jailed Saudi women’s rights activists said to face electric shocks, beatings and other abuse (The Washington Post)
- Iran opens door to women at football but will anything really change? (The Guardian)
- Millions of Women in Kenyan Slums Avoid Using Available Toilets. We Need to Pay Attention to This (Science Alert)
- Women’s lives, behind the data (The Washington Post)
- Marching to End Violence Against Women (The New York Times)
- Most Dangerous Place for Women Is the Home, U.N. Report Finds (The New York Times)
- Ending inequality means ending ‘global pandemic’ of violence against women – UN chief (UN News)
1-15 November
- How Turkish Women With Disabilities Are Entering the Workforce (News Deeply)
- The Year of the Woman’s Activism: Marches, Phone Banks, Postcards, More (The New York Times)
- Handbook on the implementation of Recommendation on gender equality and media is available in Azerbaijani (Council of Europe)
- Education key to ending violence and advancing women’s rights say participants (Relief Web)
- Britain’s Equal Pay Day Highlights Gender Gap (The New York Times)
- The rape case in El Salvador shows what happens when hatred of women is enshrined in law (The Guardian)
- Women’s suffrage UK centenary to be marked by female politicians (The Guardian)
- Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World (The New York Times)
- Ethiopia’s First Female Supreme Court Chief Meaza Ashenafi Has Long Championed Women’s Rights (The Bustle)
- Lawyer in Rape Trial Links Thong With Consent, and Ireland Erupts (The New York Times)
- ‘It’s Time to Try to Change the Men’: Papua New Guinea’s Epidemic of Abuse (The New York Times)
- South Sudan’s women caught up in ‘futile man’s war’ UN gender equality chief (UN News)
- The ‘Year of the Woman’ goes global (CNN)
- Campaign reveals intensity of ‘victim blaming’ in rape cases in Lebanon (Step Feed)
- India’s top court ruled that women can enter a prominent temple. Protesters are keeping them out (The Washington Post)
- Merkel says Germany has a way to go on gender equality (ABC News)
- Tackling Menstrual Hygiene Among Adolescents in India (News Deeply)