Gender in the Media: January 2019
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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.
January 2019
16 – 31 January
- Is the World’s Most Powerful Woman Finally a Feminist? (The New York Times)
- Women’s rights issues are climate change issues (The Washington Post)
- The U.A.E. Handed Out Gender Equality Awards. All Went to Men (The New York Times)
- Women’s March 2019: thousands around the world march to demand gender equality – as it happened (The Guardian)
- U.N. Leader’s Grade From Feminist Group: B-Minus (The New York Times)
- Women’s Marches Around the World Reflect Worry Over Violence and Populism (The New York Times)
- Women’s March 2019: Here’s What to Know if You Can’t Keep Up (The New York Times)
- How New York City Ended Up With 2 Competing Women’s Marches (The New York Times)
1 – 15 January
- Codifying #MeToo into international law (The Hill)
- The Gender Politics of Fasting (The New York Times)
- Schoolgirls in Kenya to face compulsory tests for pregnancy and FGM (The Guardian)
- Freed From Forced Marriages, U.K. Women Stuck With the Bill (The New York Times)
- ET Women’s Forum: Why India needs her half a billion women to rise, and conquer (The Economic Times)
- What You Need To Know About Gender Lens Investing (Forbes)
- Two Women Enter a Temple. A Country Erupts (The New York Times)
- ‘My dreams were destroyed’: poverty costs child brides dear in Zimbabwe (The Guardian)
- Mena women seek jobs ‘for financial independence’ (Trade Arabia)
- Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America (IPS)
- 5 Reproductive Health IssuesWe Should Be Talking About (The New York Times)
- Q&A: How to include more local women in emergency response (IRIN)
- Romania’s care system was in crisis. Now, it’s a role model (Apolitical)
- Female Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning (The New York Times)
- A New Year for Gender Equality (The Asia Foundation)
- For gender equality at work, seeing is believing (CNN)
- Two male academics have proposed a new measure of gender inequality that suggests men are falling behind women in 91 countries (Business Insider)
- Women’s equality not just ‘firsts’ (The Hill)
- 3 vital steps to a new gender equality playbook (World Economic Forum)