Gender Bias Busters for When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman By Amy Diehl & Leanne M. Dzubinski Summary. Role incredulity is a form of gender bias where women are mistakenly assumed to be in a support or stereotypically female role — an administrative assistant, nurse, wife, or girlfriend, for instance — . Learn More
Ending Violence Against Women & Girls: Bridging the Gap Between Multilateral Aspiration & State Practice
Ending Violence against Women & Girls: Bridging the Gap between Multilateral Aspiration & State Practice Despite global normative commitments by UN member states, violence against women and girls in myriad forms is prevalent in every country and culture. This issue brief focuses on how governments have committed to global norms to end . Learn More
Bolivia – Skateboarder Women Use Indigenous Attire to Battle Discrimination
Bolivia – Skateboarder Women Use Indigenous Attire to Battle Discrimination February 2, 2022 - Colorful polleras are symbols of cultural identity in Bolivia’s countryside. The history of the voluminous, traditional skirts worn by Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women is complex: Dating to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, polleras . Learn More
Syria-Jordan – In Jordan Camp, Syrian Refugees Choose School Over Child Marriage
In Jordan Camp, Syrian Refugees Choose School Over Child Marriage By Lin Taylor A decade since the Zaatari camp opened, a growing number of girls are challenging family pressure for them to marry early. Early marriage, teenage pregnancy common in Zaatari camp Rates of child marriage much higher among Syrian refugees More girls are . Learn More
Barbara Walters, Media Pioneer, Passes Away at 93
Barbara Walters, Media Pioneer, Passes Away at 93 By The Associated Press December 30 2022 - NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters, the intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host who blazed the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar during a career remarkable for its duration and variety, has died. She was 93. Her legacy as a . Learn More
Children with Albinism at High Risk of Abuse & Attacks for Witchcraft Accusations
Albinism is a rare, non-contagious, genetically inherited condition which commonly results in the lack of melanin pigment in the hair, skin and eyes, causing vulnerability to sun exposure. The physical appearance of persons with albinism is often the object of erroneous beliefs and myths influenced by superstition, which foster their . Learn More
Afghanistan – Without Women, Afghanistan Has No Future
Afghanistan - Without Women, Afghanistan Has No Future By Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab December 25, 2022 - In December 2022, the Taliban, the de facto authority in Afghanistan, banned women from public and private universities until further notice. Reportedly, this decision was partly due to female students allegedly not adhering to the Taliban . Learn More
COP 27 Recap – The Solutions to the Climate Crisis Are Intersectional & Feminist
COP27 Recap - The Solutions To The Climate Crisis Are Intersectional & Feminist November 22, 2022 - From the 6th to the 20th of November, heads of states, negotiators, scientists, lobbyists, and civil society came together in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt for the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP), or COP27, to negotiate international climate . Learn More
Ecofeminism: Where Gender & Climate Change Intersect
The Faces of Ecofeminism: Women Promoting Gender Equality & Climate Justice Worldwide For these women climate activists, protecting women is key to protecting the planet. April 28, 2022 - Women climate activists who identify as ecofeminists are demanding the recognition of women’s climate justice work around the world to help protect the . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Bar Women From NGOs, Threatening to Worsen Crisis
Afghanistan - Taliban Bar Women From NGOs, Threatening to Worsen Crisis A letter from Afghanistan’s Ministry of Economy warned that it would revoke the operating licenses of any organizations that defied the decree. By Christina Goldbaum, Safiullah Padshah and Najim Rahim Dec. 24, 2022 - The Afghan government on Saturday barred women from . Learn More
Turkey – Femicide Increases Disturbing + DYING TO DIVORCE Film on Violence Against Women & Femicide
Scores of women are killed in Turkey on a regular basis. Written by Arzu Geybullayeva - Read this post in Shqip, Italiano, Español _____________________________________________________________________________ TURKEY – DYING TO DIVORCE – Violence Against Women & Femicide in Turkey Filmed over 5 years, DYING TO DIVORCE takes . Learn More
Signs of Relationship Abuse & How to Help
Signs of Relationship Abuse & How to Help Violence against women is a human rights violation that takes place every single day around the world. Globally, one in three women experiences physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. While domestic violence and abuse are sometimes hidden, if we know the signs of an abusive . Learn More
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society Article By Marci Alboher & Eunice Lin Nichols This essay series, “Meeting the Multigenerational Moment,” exposes a generational divide in American society that’s complex and deepening. As the opening essay explains, the United States began the 20th century as one of the most age-integrated societies in . Learn More
Afghanistan – The Taliban Continue to Tighten Their Grip on Afghan Women & Girls
Afghanistan - The Taliban Continue to Tighten Their Grip on Afghan Women & Girls BY: Belquis Ahmadi; Scott Worden December 8, 2022 - Since the Taliban’s August 2021 takeover of Afghanistan, they have ratcheted up restrictions on women and girls as the group consolidates power. These restrictions include limitations on employment, . Learn More
International Migrants Day – Gender & Migration
International Migrants Day: December 18, 2022 280 million people leave home for ‘a better life’ - Migration is a gendered process and impacts women and men differently: It is entrenched in a globalized sexual division of labour in which there is a demand for women migrant workers in specific service sectors, such as domestic and care work. 18 . Learn More
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