November 2016

28 –  30 November

• UNIDO recognizes Bahrain’s role in empowering women entrepreneurs (UNIDO 29.11.2016)
• 100 Women 2016: Bringing up my son as a feminist (BBC News 28.11.2016)
• 100 Women 2016: Female Arab cartoonists challenge authority (BBC News 28.11.2016)
• Australia domestic violence: Aboriginal dancers highlight problem (BBC News 28.11.2016)

21 –  27 November

• Making #HerStory Matter: Promoting Gender Equality on Arabic Wikipedia (Egyptian Streets 27.11.2016)
• Trudeau promotes women’s, LGBT rights at la Francophonie summit of French-speaking nations (CBC News 26.11.2016)
• Orange the World: Parliament calls for stronger protection of women’s rights (European Parliament News 25.11.2016)
• How Race Plays A Surprising Role In The Experience Women Have At Work (Forbes 25.11.2016)
• Ending Violence Against Women And Girls: If Not Today, When? (The Huffington Post 25.11.2016)
• Lighting the way for change: Ending violence against women (EIGE 25.11.2016)
• Fundamentalism and populism pose deepening threat to women human rights defenders, UN experts warn (UN News Centre 25.11.2016)
• Africa: Tanzania ‘Far From Realising Gender Equality’ (All Africa 22.11.2016)
• Getting more women into leadership roles will encourage others to step up (The Guardian 22.11.2016)
• Wanjira Mathai: ‘Landscape restoration is about gender equality’ (Forest News 23.11.2016)
• Afghans Sceptical Over Promises On Women’s Rights (IWPR 23.11.2016)
• China’s unmarried women struggle to overcome barriers to having babies (Deutsche Welle 23.11.2016)
• Egypt girls launch cycling equality campaign (BBC News 21.11.2016)
• Donors thinking big: beyond gender equality funds (Open Democracy 21.11.2016)
• ‘Sexist’ government cuts ignore equality laws, says women’s group (The Guardian 21.11.2016)

14 –  20 November

• United Nations report urges Canada to address gender equality barriers (The Globe and Mail 20.11.2016)
• Drought-hit women struggle as “compassion” runs dry at climate talks (Reuters 19.11.2016)
• ‘Single Chinese Women Should be Allowed to Have Children’ (Radio Free Asia 18.11.2016)
• Saudi Arabian Artist Fights To Make Her Country Treat Women Like Adults (Huffington Post 18.11.2016)
• Women have a right to be heard and respected (The Globe and Mail 18.11.2016)
• Patriarchal attitudes stymie Kenya’s laws to give women land rights (Reuters 18.11.2016)
• The Business Case for Women’s Empowerment (International Monetary Fund 18.11.2016)
• Survey Shows Gender Attitudes in Southern Africa Lag Behind Policies (News Deeply 18.11.2016)
• Why Trump Is Bad News for Gender Equality in Foreign Policy (PRIO blog 18.11.2016)
• US House Passes Bipartisan Women, Peace, and Security Act (Inclusive Security 15.11.2016)
• Women’s Rights Become A Battleground For Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews (NPR 16.11.2016)
• Making Paris Climate Change Agreement deliver for women and girls – the Marrakech opportunity (Huffington Post 15.11.2016)
• The empowerment trap: Ivanka Trump and the art of co-opting feminism (The Guardian 15.11.2016)
• The Dream — and the Myth — of the ‘Women’s Vote’ (New York Times 15.11.2016)
• UN Committee Review Unmasks Serious Violations of Women’s Rights in Armenia (The Armenian Weekly 15.11.2016)
• Tanzania: Will the New Constitution Protect Women’s Rights in Tanzania? (All Africa 15.11.2016)
• Women have more rights in places with fewer pathogens (The Washington Post 14.11.2016)
• Why Gender Is On The Agenda At The UN Climate Change Conference (Huffington Post 15.11.2016)
• Legal Protections for Women Exist in Argentina. Enforcement Is the Problem (World Politics Review 14.11.2016)
• What Board Directors Really Think of Gender Quotas (Harvard Business Review 14.11.2016)

7 –  13 November

• The power of religion over women in India (Global Sisters Report 10.11.2016)
• Nigeria: Building Gender Equality Through Rural Development (All Africa 11.11.2016)
• Nigeria: Young Women Demand Stronger Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill (All Africa 10.11.2016)
• Massive march for women’s rights planned for Trump’s inauguration (Newsweek 12.11.2016)
• Africa leads outcry over setback for feminism after Trump victory (The Guardian 10.11.2016)
• Trump’s Win Has The Global Women’s Rights Movement Very, Very Worried (Buzzfeed News 09.11.2016)
• 35 women killed in September in Turkey (Hurriyet Daily News 10.11.2016)
• America was never ready for a woman president (Quartz 09.11.2016)
• Artist Series ‘Building Blocks Of Change’ Explores Society’s Expectations Of Women (Girl Talk HQ 09.11.2016)
• Equal pay day sounds great – but women will work for free to the end of 2016 (The Guardian 09.11.2016)
• Dispelling the myths: why the gender pay gap does not reflect the ‘choices’ women make (The Guardian 08.11.2016)
• Investing in Inclusion: Women, Peace, and Development in Africa (ReliefWeb 07.11.2016)
• Voters Pay Tribute to Women’s Rights Activist (Voice of America 08.11.2016)
• After Scathing Report, Nigeria Deploys Female Police To Protect Displaced Women (NPR 08.11.2016)
• Teaching gender inequality in Sri Lanka (Open Democracy 08.11.2016)
• Top French offices stop work in support of gender pay gap protest (The Guardian 07.11.2016)
• Nicaragua, World Champion of Gender Equality in Politics (Telesur 07.11.2016)

1 –  6 November

• Double Femicide Shakes Argentina Amid Gender Violence Outcry (Telesur 06.11.2016)
• Even at Israel’s Equality Ministry, Male Civil Servants Outearn Women (Haaretz 06.11.2016)
• The fight for women’s rights isn’t a recent phenomenon. Haseena Moin, for one, challenged patriarchy decades ago (The Nation 06.11.2016)
• Egypt’s All-Woman Roller Derby Team Is Skating Past Stereotypes (NPR 05.11.2016)
• A new study shows that the gender gap in math abilities starts early—and teacher bias makes it worse as time goes on (Quartz 04.11.2016)
• Closing the gender employment gap – an economic and social objective for Europe (Eurofound 04.11.2016)
• Women-owned businesses to get online marketing boost (Reuters 04.11.2016)
• Narrowing the Gap Between Tunisia’s Gender Laws and Women’s Reality (World Politics Review 04.11.2016)
• How will António Guterres tackle the UN’s gender problem ? (open democracy 04.11.2016)
• A conspiracy theory about sex and gender is being peddled around the world by the far right (Quartz 04.11.2016)
• Survey Considers Gender Roles Among Peanut Farmers in Mozambique (Relief Web 03.11.2016)
• Mapped: The best (and worst) countries for gender equality (The Telegraph 03.22.2016)
• Melinda Gates Focuses the World’s Largest Foundation on Gender (Wall Street Journal 02.11.2016)
• Canada’s Feminist Prime Minister, One Year In (Human Rights Watch 02.11.2016)
• Hillary Clinton is the only choice for voters who care about women’s health (The Guardian 02.11.2016)
• What Men Would do to Fix the Workplace Equality Gap (The Good Men Project 03.11.2016)
• 5,000 Female Construction Workers Change Brazil’s Landscape (Huffington Post 02.11.2016)
• French women to walk out of work in protest against gender pay gap (France 24 02.11.2016)
• Hispanic Women May Have to Wait 232 Years for Wage Equality (TIME 01.11.2016)
• In US history, there have been 1,917 male senators — and just 46 female senators (Vox 01.11.2016)
• The Key Role Women Played in Culture of Peace (IPS 01.11.2016)
• Listening to Muslim women on sharia divorce could change it for the better (The Guardian 01.11.2016)