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.

December 2018

16-31 December

• Transgender Woman’s Murder Is Prosecuted as ‘Feminicide,’ in First for Colombia (The New York Times)
• Mainstreaming gender equality and empowerment education in post-primary schools in India (Brookings)
• Excluded, stereotyped and abused: where do women stand in UK politics today? (Open Democracy)
• Philippines moves up in gender equality ranking (Sun Star)
• Gender Ministry to focus on improving gender equality, supporting parents and teenagers in 2019 (Korea Herald)
• Waiting for equality: Why progress in closing the gender gap has slowed (France 24)
• The Swedish model dismantled: premature closure of the Gender Equality Agency (Open Democracy)

1-15 December

• 5 Feminist Economists Who Change The Way We See The World (Feminism India)
• After Backpacker’s Killing, New Zealand Looks Again at Violence Against Women (The New York Times)
• Women in Rare Company Accept Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry (The New York Times)
• Working to Ensure the ‘Year of the Woman’ Is More Than Just One Year (The New York Times)
• Can We Finally Stop Talking About ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains? (The New York Times)
• 125 Women and Girls Seeking Food Were Raped and Whipped in South Sudan (The New York Times)
• A Generation of Widows, Raising Children Who Will Be Forged by Loss (The New York Times)
• Rwandan Women Paddle Into the Male World of Fishing (The New York Times)
• No world to leave our children’: progress on women’s rights still lags, shows study (The Guardian)
• Researchers said governments needed to do more to change the social attitudes that favour FGM and child marriage (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Africa has made most legislative progress for women (Financial Times)
• American Women Face More Discrimination Than Europeans, Report Finds (Fortune)
• U.S. Women Face Continued Discrimination Challenges (Wall Street Journal)
• Act now or face 100 more years of child marriage, OECD warns (Business Day)
• Belgium in the top five of the OECD gender equality table (The Brussels Times)
• Argentina’s #MeToo Moment: Actress Shares Account of Assault (The New York Times)
• Tunisia wants to change inheritance rules to boost gender equality (World Economic Forum)

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