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Welcome to the Wikigender Community Portal. Here you can follow how academia and the media - through publications, news articles, press releases, blogs and others - build the information base and report on news regarding gender equality.
Special Focus
Special Focus - Women and elections
- Pakistani women faced major hurdles at polls (UPI 20.05.2013)
- U.S. Quiet On Iran Women President Bar (rferl.org 18.05.2013)
- In Nepal, battle for representation (The Hindu 18.05.2013)
Publications
Recently released papers
- Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls & Migration in the Developing World (May 2013, Population Council)
- The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles (2013, by Victor Gay, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut and Amir Shoham)
- Accessing justice: Models, strategies and best practices on women's empowerment (2013, IDLO)
Media Review
Gender in the Media
- Number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing abuse soars (The Guardian 21.05.2013)
- Women’s health in rural areas of Pakistan (The News - Pakistan 21.05.2013)
- Worrying Signs Afghan Women's Rights Will Slip After U.S. Departure (The Atlantic 20.05.2013)
- China’s Entrenched Gender Gap (The New York Times - Op-ed 20.05.2013)
- Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices – in pictures (The Guardian 20.05.2013)
Multimedia Gallery
Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school
Online Discussions
- "How discriminatory social norms shape the lives of adolescent girls by influencing their access to opportunities, resources and power? Which interventions are the most effective in transforming such discriminatory social norms and practices?"
- Outcome presented at a workshop on "Empowering adolescent girls by tackling social norms" that takes place on 26 April in London!
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