Gender in the Media: January 2019

Gender in the Media: January 2019

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.
<h1>January 2019</h1>
<h2>16 – 31 January</h2>
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<li id="link-1ab160a3" class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/opinion/angela-merkel-feminism.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">Is the World’s Most Powerful Woman Finally a Feminist?</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/womens-rights-issues-are-climate-change-issues/2018/01/22/c59b9b00-f65a-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.424af0f07d97">Women’s rights issues are climate change issues</a> (The Washington Post)</li>
<li id="link-1ab160a3" class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/world/middleeast/uae-gender-awards.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">The U.A.E. Handed Out Gender Equality Awards. All Went to Men</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/jan/19/womens-march-2019-london-new-york-berlin-washington-dc-live">Women’s March 2019: thousands around the world march to demand gender equality – as it happened</a> (The Guardian)</li>
<li id="link-1ab160a3" class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/world/americas/antonio-guterres-feminist-womens-group.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">U.N. Leader’s Grade From Feminist Group: B-Minus (</a>The New York Times)</span></li>
<li id="link-1ab160a3" class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/world/europe/womens-march-europe.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">Women’s Marches Around the World Reflect Worry Over Violence and Populism</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li id="link-1ab160a3" class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/us/womens-march-problems.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">Women’s March 2019: Here’s What to Know if You Can’t Keep Up</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li class="css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/nyregion/womens-march-rally-nyc.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">How New York City Ended Up With 2 Competing Women’s Marches</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
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<h2>1 – 15 January</h2>
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<li><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/424309-codifying-metoo-into-international-law">Codifying #MeToo into international law</a> (The Hill)</li>
<li><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/fasting-gender-politics.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">The Gender Politics of Fasting</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/04/schoolgirls-in-kenya-to-face-compulsory-tests-for-pregnancy-and-female-genital-mutilation-narok-county">Schoolgirls in Kenya to face compulsory tests for pregnancy and FGM</a> (The Guardian)</li>
<li><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/europe/forced-marriage-payment-britain.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">Freed From Forced Marriages, U.K. Women Stuck With the Bill</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li><a href="//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/67377287.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst">ET Women’s Forum: Why India needs her half a billion women to rise, and conquer</a> (The Economic Times)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bhaktimirchandani/2019/01/03/want-to-discuss-gender-lens-investing-metoo/#187eca833ec6">What You Need To Know About Gender Lens Investing</a> (Forbes)</li>
<li><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/india-women-sabarimala-temple.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">Two Women Enter a Temple. A Country Erupts</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/04/poverty-drives-trade-child-brides-zimbabwe">‘My dreams were destroyed’: poverty costs child brides dear in Zimbabwe</a> (The Guardian)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tradearabia.com/news/EDU_349424.html">Mena women seek jobs ‘for financial independence’</a> (Trade Arabia)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/01/shedding-light-forced-child-pregnancy-motherhood-latin-america/">Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America</a> (IPS)</li>
<li><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/health/women-reproductive-health-vagina.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">5 Reproductive Health IssuesWe Should Be Talking About</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.irinnews.org/interview/2019/01/09/qa-how-include-more-local-women-emergency-response?utm_source=IRIN+-+the+inside+story+on+emergencies&utm_campaign=78b62f5171-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_03_05_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d842d98289-78b62f5171-15685953">Q&A: How to include more local women in emergency response</a> (IRIN)</li>
<li><a href="https://apolitical.co/solution_article/romanias-care-system-was-in-crisis-now-its-a-role-model/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=68852513&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_2V36jDGrM5FEUY74-lupWmoaQ84PQreIrVnhsgPpSQX3uxfOfMJNJCRwXRHQHkBGi3ZDMzgkugEAWLgJMuLH1b7z-rQ&_hsmi=68852513">Romania’s care system was in crisis. Now, it’s a role model</a> (Apolitical)</li>
<li><span class="balancedHeadline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/business/economics-sexual-harassment-metoo.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWomen%20and%20Girls">Female Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning</a> (The New York Times)</span></li>
<li><a href="https://asiafoundation.org/2019/01/16/a-new-year-for-gender-equality/">A New Year for Gender Equality</a> (The Asia Foundation)</li>
<li><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/10/opinions/gender-inequality-at-work-images-matter-durana-swenson/index.html">For gender equality at work, seeing is believing</a> (CNN)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/basic-gender-inequality-index-methodology-2019-1">Two male academics have proposed a new measure of gender inequality that suggests men are falling behind women in 91 countries</a> (Business Insider)</li>
<li><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/424702-womens-equality-not-just-firsts">Women’s equality not just ‘firsts’</a> (The Hill)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/new-gender-equality-playbook-p&g/">3 vital steps to a new gender equality playbook</a> (World Economic Forum)</li>
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