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.

March 2019

1-15 March

• From Antarctica to Costa Rica, women team up to build a climate-safe future (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• When Women Control the Money, Female Founders Get Funded (The New York Times)
• Grassroots voices hold the key to fighting gender oppression (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Denmark’s ‘Pervasive Rape Culture’ Is Detailed in New Report (The New York Times)
• Let’s not turn the clock back on reproductive health and rights (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Reducing Maternal Mortality (The New York Times)
• ‘Big step but not enough’: Ecuador debates easing abortion law in rape cases (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Goodbye, Women’s History Month. Here Are 15 Women We Shouldn’t Forget (The New York Times)
• Why International Women’s Day Isn’t Going Away (The New York Times)
• Rise in populism eroding women’s rights, global leaders warn (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• ‘Mind the Pay Gap’: Reduced Berlin Transit Tickets for Women to Highlight Discrimination (The New York Times)
• Latin America Claims to Love Its Mothers. Why Does It Abuse Them? (The New York Times)
• I Am Not Untouchable. I Just Have My Period (The New York Times)
• Sweden Provides Some Perspective on Women and Equality (The New York Times)

16-31 March

• Win for women’s rights as UK puts mothers’ names on marriage certificates (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Saudi Women’s Rights Activists Granted Release, but Their Trial Continues (The New York Times)
• UK schools should teach dangers of breast ironing, says education union (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• ‘Don’t Succumb to the Fear’: Women Share Travel Safety Tips (The New York Times)
• ‘Wake-up call’ for UK as graduates’ gender pay gap widens (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• How the Patriarchy Got in Our Heads (The New York Times)
• Women running the money? Rarely at hedge funds (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• No documents, no home: ‘desperate’ Syrian mothers turn to child marriage (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Women in Economics Report Rampant Sexual Assault and Bias (The New York Times)
• Guatemala amnesty would free war criminals, soldiers who held women as sex slaves (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• A Sexism Storm Over Italy’s Courts, With Female Judges at Its Center (The New York Times)

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