Issues and Analysis
Dangerous laughter: the mocking of Gender Studies in academia
MARIA DO MAR PEREIRA 8 March 2013
Gender Studies is an increasingly established and influential area of study and research, however it continues to be the object of sustained mocking within, and beyond, academia. This allegedly ‘innocent teasing’ has significant and negative effects, says Maria do Mar Pereira.
Read more...Being a Woman in Turkey and in the Middle East
International Women's Day, observed every March 8, is a global celebration of women's economic, political and social achievements. Sadly, gender equality for women remains an ongoing struggle — especially for women in the Middle East. Sedef Küçük examines the challenges women still face — in her native Turkey and elsewhere in the region — and what Western democracies can do to help.
Read more...Remarks of Michelle Bachelet at the International Women’s Day Commemorative Event at the United Nations
Remarks of Michelle Bachelet United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women at the International Women’s Day Commemorative Event at the United Nations.8 March 2013.
Read more...Who should care about stoning?
Today sees the launch of a new Global Campaign to Stop Stoning. Rochelle Terman examines the history of this gendered practice of violence against women. With stoning, as with all forms of culturally-justified violence against women, it is very difficult to see where culture ends and politics begin.
Read more...The cost of masculine crime
Men are, by a huge margin, the sex responsible for violent, sexual and other serious crime. The economic cost of this ‘masculine excess’ in delinquency is staggering - to say nothing of its emotional toll. Why is the social shaping of masculinity not an urgent policy issue?
Read more...Gender violence in the media: elusive reality
The death of Reeva Steenkamp has highlighted the problematic way in which the media treat the issue of domestic violence. We need a better way to transmit and therefore tackle the reality – how violence is built into our lives and how space is gendered, says Heather McRobie.
Read more...Reframing Gender, from Chaos to Creativity Post-2015
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 4 2013 (IPS) - The U.N. has opened up public platforms to engage the world on how best to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and frame a new development agenda, post-2015.
Read more...Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains
Among all the social movements of the past century, the struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has been the most transformative in terms of the deep tectonic shifts it has created in the social terrain, yet skepticism about the value of funding women's rights work persists
Read more...Acid Attacks on Women
India is among a handful of countries that witness the maximum number of horrific acid attacks on women. The male perpetrators disfigure women as a form of revenge. They get hold of the corrosive chemical without difficulty, and have little fear of the law. The victims die a hundred deaths.
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