Gender in the Media – February 2016
Wikis > Gender in the Media – February 2016
- Looking for gender statistics you can count on and compare? (EIGE 29.02.2016)
- Iran set to elect record number of women into parliament (The Guardian 29.02.2016)
- 2016 was the best year for women at the Oscars in ages. But that’s not saying much (Vox Culture 29.02.2016)
- How the Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund Can Help Change the Entire Entrepreneur Ecosystem (Huffington Post 29.02.2016)
- Twitter Launches #PositionOfStrength Campaign For Women Empowerment In India And The MENA Region (Forbes 28.02.2016)
- PAKISTAN: Forced marriages and conversions stem from institutionalised intolerance (Human Rights Asia 25.02.2016)
- Glowork launches female-only recruitment app (arabianbusiness.com 24.02.2016)
- ‘I Was Becoming Afraid Of Writing’: Iranian Poet Flees Because Of Crippling Censorship (Rferl.org 22.02.2016)
- New policies simplify court procedures for women, says NSHR (Saudi Gazette 21.02.2016)
- Why Sexism at the Office Makes Women Love Hillary Clinton (The NY Times 20.02.2016)
- If Every Woman Were Happy and Free (awwproject.org 18.02.2016)
- Why gender inclusion matters for post-conflict recovery (World Bank 16.02.2016)
- Top 10 Women In Africa’s Manufacturing Industry (AFKInsider 17.02.2016)
- Reprivatized Womanhood: Changing Gender Discourse in Contemporary Urban China (Policy Innovations 16.02.2016)
- Chinese province grants women leave for menstrual pain (CNN 16.02.2016)
- Syrian refugees in southern Turkey offered chance of employment thanks to UNIDO knitting course (Anadolu Agency 16.02.2016)
- Hollande criticised over family, children and women’s rights ministry (The Guardian 15.02.2016)
- Bernie Sanders isn’t a woman, but is he a better feminist than Hillary Clinton? (The Conversation 12.02.2016)
- Cologne: Three out of 58 men arrested over mass sex attack on New Year’s Eve were refugees from Syria or Iraq (The Independent 15.02.2016)
- More than 5,000 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika virus: government (Reuters 13.02.2016)
- Women write better code, study suggests (BBC News 12.02.2016)
- Here’s a list of smart women political scientists. They know stuff, too (The Washington Post 11.02.2016)
- Gender pay gap reporting for big firms to start in 2018 (The Guardian 12.02.2016)
- What’s Really Behind Why Women Earn Less Than Men? (The Atlantic 11.02.2016)
- UN information technology chief believes all girls should aspire to be ‘geeks’ (UN DPI 10.02.2016)
- A Site Where Women Can Review Their Employers’ Female-Friendliness (The Atlantic 09.02.2016)
- Women in Company Leadership Tied to Stronger Profits, Study Says (The NY Times 09.02.2016)
- Check out new EWL-WRC project: From conflict to peace? Women’s and girls’ voices on the move (European Women’s Lobby 08.02.2016)
- Chinese Who Violated One-Child Policy Remain Wary of Relaxed Rules (The NY Times 08.02.2016)
- The Zika Virus and Brazilian Women’s Right to Choose(The NY Times 08.02.2016)
- Colombia’s Embera tribe hopes to eradicate FGM by 2030 (Reuters 06.02.2016)
- 200 million women and girls live with female genital mutilation, says U.N. (CNN 06.02.2016)
- Wanted in China: More Male Teachers, to Make Boys Men (The NY Times 06.02.2016)
- Asking Women To Avoid Pregnancy Is Absurd, Even In The Face Of Zika (fivethirtyeight.com 05.02.2016)
- OSCE Representative launches innovative compilation on safety of female journalists online (OSCE 05.02.2016)
- FGM Case Reported Every 109 Minutes in England (Vice news 05.02.2016)
- Women’s rights crackdown exposes deepening crisis in Chinese society (The Guardian 05.02.2016)
- Unicef Report Finds Female Genital Cutting to Be Common in Indonesia (NY Times 05.02.2016)
- Combatting illicit financial flows: Why we need a gender lens (AWID 03.02.2016)
- Five ways tech is crowdsourcing women’s empowerment (The Guardian 03.02.2016)
- Tunisia’s single mothers still struggle to overcome stigma (Al Monitor 02.02.2016)
- From ‘Bold’ to ‘Bastard,’ Readers Debate Role of Working Women in India (The NY Times 02.02.2016)
- New Algerian law punishes violence against women (Star Tribune 02.02.2016)
- Myanmar’s transgender people not just chasing rainbows in fight for equality (The Guardian 02.02.2016)
- 11 ideas to improve maternal health in areas of conflict and extreme poverty (The Guardian 02.02.2016)
- Ethiopia: Gender promotion policies in Africa defended (Portal Angop 02.02.2016)
- A Country Without Babies (The Atlantic 01.02.2016)
- Mom Combats Gender Stereotypes With #StillABoy Campaign (Huffington Post 01.02.2016)