Gender in the Media – January 2018
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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 current month.
January
1-7 January
- Iceland Makes Companies Prove They’re Not Paying Women Less (The New York Times)
- Why Is Fixing Sexism Women’s Work? (The New York Times)
- The #MeToo Moment: The Year in Gender (The New York Times)
- Muslim women speaking up against violence are silenced. We must amplify their voices (The Guardian)
- Women Accused of Witchcraft Face Assault and Death in Tanzania (News Deeply)
- Reading List: Our Top 20 Stories on Women’s Economic Advancement (News Deeply)
8-14 January
- How Mongolia Revolutionized Reproductive Health for Nomadic Women (News Deeply)
- Sexual Exploitation of Girls on the Rise in Bolivia, Activists Warn (News Deeply)
- ‘They Told Me I Would Be A Soldier’: The DRC Conflict’s Forgotten Girls (News Deeply)
- The Mothers and Midwives Behind South Sudan’s Maternal Mortality Crisis (News Deeply)
- What We Lose When We Lose Female Reporters (New York Times)
- Wielding Data, Women Force a Reckoning Over Bias in the Economics Field (New York Times)
- In Rural Nepal, Menstruation Taboo Claims Another Victim (New York Times)
15-21 January
- Women’s Marches Across the World, in Photos and Voices of Protest (New York Times)
- The Women’s March Became a Movement. What’s Next? (New York Times)
- Women’s March 2018: Protesters Take to the Streets for the Second Straight Year (New York Times)
- Tired of Their Veils, Some Iranian Women Stage Rare Protests (New York Times)
- Domestic Workers to Miss Out on South Africa’s New Minimum Wage (News Deeply)
22-31 January
- Outlook 2018: The Issues to Watch in Women’s Economic Advancement (News Deeply)
- ‘She’s Not Laughing’: In Davos, Taking on Sexual Harassment (New York Times)
- Analysis: Why Economic ‘Empowerment’ Is Giving Way to Women’s Rights (News Deeply)
- ‘Me Too,’ Chinese Women Say. Not So Fast, Say the Censors (New York Times)
- The Village That Gave Up FGM and Gender Taboos – Because of Economics (News Deeply)
- When Laws Against Rape Aren’t Enough(New York Times)
- Ireland to Hold Abortion Referendum by End of May (New York Times)
- Women Outnumber Men in Oxford’s Newest Class. It Only Took 1,000 Years (New York Times)
- Embrace Data and Big Thinking to Meet Gender SDGs – Equal Measures 2030 (News Deeply)
- Deeply Talks: Women’s Advancement in 2018, Dispatch from Davos (News Deeply)