Gender in the Media: April 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.
April 2019
1-15 April
- It’s Equal Pay Day. Here’s what women can do to close the gender pay gap for good (NBC News)
- Almost half UK companies failed to narrow gender pay gap (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
- Workplace automation will hit women harder than men (Quartz)
- South Korea Rules Anti-Abortion Law Unconstitutional (The New York Times)
- What Women Know About the Internet (The New York Times)
- Sudanese woman in iconic protest image reports getting death threats (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
- Women dismissed for getting pregnant reinstated by Ghana fire service (CNN)
- In the Drive for Gender Equality, the Law Is Not Always on Women’s Side (Pass Blue)
- AfDB Advances Gender Equality in African Procurement (Proshare)
- UK law against taking ‘upskirt’ photos without consent comes into force (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
- Georgia’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ abortion bill: What you need to know (USA Today)
- Pad Women – the all-female business easing period poverty in Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
- Women’s Rights Backlash and Feminist Revival: Gender Equality in 2019 (The Globe Post)
- First female boss vows to shake up Bangladesh’s fashion factories (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
- France takes torch passed by Canada, will focus on gender equality at G7 summit (Nelson Star)
- Creches, courts and quotas – India’s rival parties woo women as polls loom (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
16 – 30 April
- #WhatsMyName Stresses Safety for Uber Riders (The New York Times)
- In Kosovo, a Teenage Girl’s Rape Case Stirs a #MeToo Fury (The New York Times)
- Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers (The New York Times)
- Melinda Gates on tech innovation, global health and her own privilege (The New York Times)
- What’s a Feminist Government? Canada, and Trudeau, Grapple With the Question (The New York Times)