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 month.

August

1-14 August

• Men must play a constructive role to achieve gender equality – Independent Australia
• The ‘female’ brain: why damaging myths about women and science keep coming back in new forms – The Conversation UK
• Gender Equality In The Midst Of A Pandemic – Forbes
• UN-Habitat, others link unsustainable urbanisation to impact COVID-19 on women – The Guardian
• COVID-19 crisis threatens to exacerbate gender disparity in sports – New Delhi Times
• Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet – The Washington Post
• Women CEOs’ Highest Representation On The Fortune 500 List Still Isn’t Enough – Forbes
• ‘You don’t have to be a man to hold a screwdriver’: busy times for Britain’s female telecom engineers – The Guardian
• Sign of the times? Mumbai installs female figures on traffic lights to promote gender equality – CNN
• Mumbai Put Female Figures on Traffic Signals. Some Women Are Not Impressed. – The New York Times
• The gender pay gap no-one talks about – BBC News
• Efforts to diversify gender leadership come up short – The Times-Independent
• Turkish women rally against domestic violence as ruling party contemplates leaving key rights treaty – CNN
• The Key to an Inclusive Recovery? Putting Women in Decision-Making Roles – The New York Times
• 22-year-old poet delivers gender equality plan – Trinidad News
• How to close the gender gap in venture capital – World Economic Forum

15-31 August

• Melinda Gates On Covid-19: It’s Time to Demand More of All Our Leaders – The New York Times
• Women less likely to critique men’s research in academic journals – The Conversation CA
• Nature and nurture both contribute to gender inequality in leadership – but that doesn’t mean patriarchy is forever – The Conversation US
• Fresh calls for cheaper child care as gender equality deteriorates – The New Daily
• Towards overcoming gender challenges in community participation  – The Guardian
• Women add voice on revenue sharing debate  – Daily Nation
• 100 years, 100 women: female artists celebrate the right to vote – The Guardian
• The ‘old normal’ was hard on women — and we need to use the pandemic as an opportunity to fix that – Business Insider
• Covid-19 and Gender – The News International
• Can Gender Equality save Rwanda`s Economic Growth Prospects? – The New Daily
• View From the I.M.F. — In a Crisis Like No Other, Gender Still Counts – The New York Times
• The female Indian entrepreneurs who have overcome gender barriers – Financial Times
• It’s 100 years since US women got the right to vote, but how has gender equality changed? – World Economic Forum
• Global experts to discuss gender equality in pandemic era – The Korea Times

See also

• Gender in the Media – Archive
• Community Portal
• Publications