Gender in the Media: September 2020
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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 month.
September
1-14 September
- Generations of progress for women and girls could be lost to COVID pandemic, UN chief warns – UN News
- Coronavirus rolling back decades of ‘fragile progress’ for women, warns UN chief – The Independent
- Women’s access to stimulus packages and post Covid-19 gender equality – The Daily Star
- Opinion: 4 ways digital platforms can expand economic opportunity for women – Devex
- Hitting women hard, pandemic makes gender poverty gap wider: U.N. – Reuters
- How gender equality can build a prosperous Somalia – East Africa Monitor
- COVID-19 has worsened gender inequality. These charts show what we can do about it – World Economic Forum
- ET Women’s Forum: Urgent need for a gender-responsive recovery strategy – The Economic Times
- Is it time to rid overlapping gender issues in the private sector? – The New Times
- Guilt, Gender, and an Inclusive Recovery: A Lesson from Japan – IMF Blog
- Pushing frontiers of gender, equal opportunity through legislation – The Guardian
- Women significantly underrepresented in senior positions across NHS, report finds – The Independent
15-30 September
- Women are not financially illiterate. They need more than condescending advice. Kristine Ziwica – The Guardian
- International Day Of Peace: Women Must Speak Out Against Gender-Based Violence – Capital FM Kenya
- Women’s Equality party runs consultation on self-identification for trans people – The Guardian
- Mexico’s Women Demand Justice on Gender Violence – The Nation
- Hundreds of women detained during Belarus protest march – The Guardian
- Don’t Let the Pandemic Set Back Gender Equality – Harvard Business Review
- Civil Society Organisations push for gender inclusive approach in economic recovery plan – The New Times
- Gender diversity stalls among ASX 200 companies – The Australian Financial Review
- Covid-19 pandemic-linked family violence highlights need for review to address gender inequality – The Straits Times
- France doubles paid paternity leave to 28 days – The Guardian
- Female workers in Indonesia earn 23% less than their male peers – The Jakarta Post
- Pandemic Will ‘Take Our Women 10 Years Back’ in the Workplace – The New York Times
- Women must be kept safe online to meet global gender goals, activist says – The Star Online
- Each budget used to have a gender impact statement. We need it back, especially now – The Conversation AU
- Thailand: More than 100 companies pledge to strengthen women’s economic empowerment – UN News
- 3 Questions: Nancy Hopkins on improving gender equality in academia – MIT News
- Feminists like me aren’t anti-trans – we just can’t discard the idea of ‘sex’. Susanna Rustin – The Guardian
- Forget notions of coronavirus as a great equaliser – women are hardest hit yet again. Helen Pankhurst – The Guardian
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