Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Gender'
‘Every Day Is a Fukushima Memorial’
by Suvendrini Kakuchi, IPS, Italy - Japan prepares to mark the second anniversary of the Mar. 11 triple disaster – an earthquake, tsunami and a critical nuclear reactor accident – with much soul searching across the country....
Violence Against Women Won't Just Disappear – But Progress Is Possible
by Jessica Mack, Guardian, UK - Violence against women is not all bloody lips and black eyes, though. It is emotional abuse and financial control, street harassment and reproductive coercion. At its root, such violence is about power, sex, how...
Ignorance That Kills
by Inna Hudaya, Inside Indonesia, Australia - Many Indonesian women face great difficulties in accessing safe terminations of unwanted pregnancies....
The Longest War
by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, USA - We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or...
When Dark Skin Becomes 'Fashionable'
by Celeste Liddle, Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist, Australia - Tanning is bizarre. Fake tanning is bizarre. Forking over your hard-earned to be hit with a spray gun is bizarre. And it all makes zero sense to me at all...
The Sexy Lie
by Caroline Heldman, TedX, USA - A leading advocate for spotlighting how the mainstream media contributes to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence in America, Caroline Heldman offers straight talk and an often-startling look at the...
Vivid Cinematic Essay Examines Hannah Arendt
by Elke Schmitter, Der Spiegel, Germany - Her theory of the "banality of evil" made Hannah Arendt both famous and controversial. Now German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta has given the philosopher an outstanding cinematic portrait....
Against Work-Life Balance
by Amanda Kolson Hurley, Parlour, Australia - What “work-life balance” obscures is what people never like to associate with women, and that is the open pursuit of money....
We Must All Counter the Mood Music of Rape Culture
by Libby Brooks, The Guardian, UK - In trying to understand the horror in India, we would do well to define the beliefs that excuse or condone sexual violence....
Education Is Where HIV Care Begins
by Julia Kallas, IPS, Italy - When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were HIV-positive....
She Who Dies with the Most 'Likes' Wins?
by Jessica Valenti, The Nation, USA - Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom—it’s an issue that comes...
What Would Jesus Do?
by Rihannon A., The Vagenda, UK - I reckon there’s a bit of clearing up to do where the actual Bible’s position on women is concerned. Because there are a huge amount of passages in this context which are misread,...
The Art of Presence
by Amal Ghandour, Aeon, UK - Despite so many threats to their freedom, Arab women continue to stage a thousand small revolutions in their everyday lives....
Women Voters Usher in a Female Congressional Wave
by Bryce Covert, Forbes, USA - The percentage of women in office may still be small, but it’s edging up, in large part thanks to their fellow women at the polls....
Redefining…”the Perfect Woman”
by Melissa,Redefining Female, USA - In the hearts of women and men everywhere, there lies the myth of the perfect woman....
Women, Girls and Disasters
by Margareta Wahlstrom, Daily Star, Lebanon - Ignoring the female voice in a disaster context is foolish in the extreme. We know that some of the most powerful recovery programs in the wake of disasters are driven by women who...
Musseling into Birth Rights
by Mary-Rose MacColl, Mary-Rose MacColl, Australia - I’ve been thinking about maternity care and why there's not the same outcry in response to what happens to women when they make choices about birth. When homebirth is reported in the media,...
Why Isn't Anyone Talking about the Misogyny Involved in Amanda Todd's Life and Death?
by Krissy Darch, Vancouver Observer, Canada - With the death of 15-year-old Amanda Todd, BC schools have some reckoning on their hands. Will they take the opportunity to look at the systemic causes of Todd’s experience of harassment and violence,...
New Debate Looms over Sex-Selective Abortion Motion
by Kim Mackrael, Globe and Mail, Canada - A second abortion-related motion proposed by a backbench Conservative MP could trigger a new debate about the parameters of a woman’s right to choose in Canada....
Talk about Sexual Harassment
by Beate Sletvold Øistad, Kilden, Norway - Sexual harassment in the workplace can get worse if nobody asks about it, according to one researcher. Her view is supported by Swedish educational institutions. Uppsala University has trained more than 3,000 employees...
Weekend Mums
by Rannveig Svendby, Kilden, Norway - Embarrassing silence, the “bad mother look” and open confrontation – these are some of the reactions faced by Norwegian women who do not live with their children after a break-up....
Does the Sex Debate Exclude Men?
by Sarah Dunant, BBC, UK - Sex is everywhere in modern society - but why are women doing all the talking about it?...
Family Well-Being Tied to Men's Work Lives
by Joan C. Williams and Anne-Marie Slaughter, SF Gate, USA - "As long as it's viewed as more 'manly' for men to prepare for marathons than to spend time with their children, those of us who want an ambitious career...
African Women Won't Wield Political Influence without Cultural Change
by Sarah Jackson, Guardian, UK - Women elected to African parliaments courtesy of candidate quotas are too often marginalised by a lack of respect once there....
Fantasy Women of the GOP
by Jessica Valenti, The Nation, USA - What Romney, Akin, and their ilk don’t understand is that women’s anger isn’t about “one word” or one politician—it’s about an ethos, a Republican ideology steeped in misogyny and willful ignorance....
Magic Mike: Old Sexism in a New Package
by Caroline Heldman, Sociological Images, USA - Make no bones about it, this movie is all about reinforcing the notion that men are in control and men’s sexuality matters more... Have we learned to devalue our own sexual pleasure so...
Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question
by Lynne Gerber, Religion Dispatches, USA - The idea that gays and lesbians could be "cured" meant, for evangelical anti-gay activists, that gay people's rights didn't need protection. The game appears to be changing....
'Being a Woman War Reporter Is an Advantage'
by Louise Gray, Telegraph, UK - Di Giovanni says that motherhood is what makes female war correspondents different. She is more likely to go into war zones after the world’s press has left to find the real story....
Sex Testing in Sport and the Face of 'New' Sexism
by Ellie Gordon-Moershel, rabble, Canada - Sandy Wells talks to The F Word about how treating 'hypoandrogenism' in female athletes is representative of the current state of systematic sexism in sport. She argues that combating these practices needs to go...
The Demise of the Doofus Dad in Ads
by Heather Chaet, Adweek, USA - A backlash against the bumbling father figure is paving the way for the Superdad....
The Silent Victims: More Men Have Eating Disorders Than Ever Before
by Rebecca Wagner, The Atlantic, USA - You know the stereotype: A girl, inspired by her Barbie dolls, wants to achieve the "perfect" figure. But what about boys and G.I. Joe?...
New Fields to Conquer for Muslim Sportswomen
by Marium Sattar, The Daily Star, Lebanon - Sadaf Rahimi, a 17-year-old boxer from Afghanistan, is one Ambassador Award nominee who has overcame the lack of facilities to practice in and the difficulties of living under the Taliban – which...
Medicine’s Deadly Gender Gap
by Anne Kingston, Maclean's, Canada - New research on pain, medical devices and even PMS reveals big holes in our knowledge of the female body....
Why Is There So Much Misogyny Online?
by Laura Barnett, The Guardian, UK - Why do women face such misogyny in the media, particularly online? TV presenter Miriam O'Reilly and feminist writer Nina Power share their thoughts and experiences....
Machismo Is the Problem, Not the Solution
by Kavita Krishnan, Tehelka, India - A number of campaigns against sexual harassment endorse the stereotypes they set out to debunk....
Diablo III’s Female Character Models Are a Step in the Right Direction
by Becky Chambers, The Mary Sue, USA - I don’t want to spend my free time in a world where women play second fiddle to the “real” heroes. That doesn’t mean that the protagonist has to be a woman, but...
IWD: Making and Remaking My Identity on Human Rights
by Zenaida Martin, Gender Links, South Africa - The truth is that I have never engaged in an exchange where it did not matter (however fleetingly), to me or the opposite sex that I am female. And I am glad...
A Step Forward for Women Toward a Life Without Violence
Susan Abad, Latin America Press, Peru - Gender violence law is enacted, but violence against women because of armed conflict is neglected....
Time to Adapt to Climate Change Impact on Women’s Lives
by Mariela Jara, IPS, Italy - This year’s unusually rainy season in Peru is having a negative effect on the wellbeing and health of women in rural areas who are forced, for example, to spend three times as much time...
The Gender Agenda: Gillard and the Politics of Sexism
by Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - In the eyes of a number of past and present women political leaders, such criticisms are evidence that in politics (and, to a large extent, also in the corporate world) women are...
Film Explores World of Female Neo-Nazis
by Kristen Allen, Der Spiegel, Germany - An award-winning new German film takes an unexpected look at the problem of far-right extremism, following the fictional story of a young woman lost in a world of violence and hatred. The film,...
Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future
by Guadalupe Cruz Jaimes, IPS, Italy - 2012 will be a "very challenging" year for Mexico in terms of job creation, as Chinese goods begin flooding the country as a result of the implementation of a trade agreement that opens...
The Growing Influence of the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
by Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Der Spiegel, Germany - Veiled women, radical rabbis and gender segregation: Israel is facing a rise in the influence of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Their efforts to impose a strictly conservative worldview have led to growing tensions with...
Women Will Be Hardest Hit by the Climate Change.
by Zuki Zimel, Ear to the Ground, South Africa - No climate justice without gender justice....
Pink or Blue
by Alicia Hayashi, Canada - The "Baby Storm" case is not necessarily as unusual as it was exposed in the media to be....
Searching for Danger
by Elspeth Dehnert, JO, Jordan - Along Jordan’s northern border, a team of women is doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the country—clearing landmines. They’re the first all-female de-mining squad in the Middle East....
Marketing by Masculinizing the Feminine
by Gwen Sharp, The Society Pages, USA - After reading the comic, I thought it would be fun to have a round-up of examples of masculinizing the feminine — that is, attempts to sell items to men through repackaging and...
The Trouble with Female Genitalia: The Medicalization of Sex
by Meghan Murphy, rabble, Canada - Why is the alteration of women's pubic hair, vaginas, and vulva such a common practice in our culture? Is there something inherently problematic about women's genitalia?...
Rising Suicide Rates among Rural Women in China
by Namrata Hasija, Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies, India - With the de-collectivization of land a surplus of labour was generated in the rural areas which led to a large scale migration to urban areas in search of jobs,...
Ukraine: Short Films by Youth for Gender Equality
by Tetyana Bohdanova, GlobalVoices, Netherlands - From June 17 to September 10, 2011, a group of talented youth submitted [en] their entries to a short film competition about gender called “Gene of Equality”. Participants had to produce 5-minute films in...
Gender and the City
by Elizabeth Farrelly, The Age, Australia - Alliances between urbanism, feminism and the new connectivity may spell the end of a man's world....
Southern Africa: The Terrifying Epidemic of Body Enhancement Junkies
by Tarisai Nyamweda, Gender Links, South Africa - From skin lighteners and vagina tightening creams to hip, bum and breast enhancement pills, the list has become endless for the ordinary woman on the street....
Women and HIV
by Morolake Odetoyinbo, UN Chronicle, USA - Can we dare take a look at those national laws and policies which make women second-class citizens? Is it conceivable—and that is no accidental pun—that women’s rights can include sexual, reproductive, inheritance, and...
Global Permacultures
by Frieda Werden, WINGS, Canada - Emet Degirmenci is a Turkish women-and- development scholar and international permaculture designer. At Women's Worlds 2011 she tells Frieda Werden how ecological renewal can be based on old ways, and describes her Innermost Gardens...
Armenia: Are Selective Abortions Behind Birth Ratio Imbalance?
by Marianna Grigoryan, EurasiaNet, USA - “A good man must have a son,” said sociologist Aharon Adibekian, commenting on Armenian attitudes toward their children’s gender. “If you don’t have a son, who will inherit your belongings, your house and [look...
New Students Make Traditional Choices
by Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik, Kilden, Norway - A record number of women want to study technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). More men are applying for pre-school teacher training. But most students still make traditional choices....
Southern Africa: Climate Change Is a Gender Issue
by Daud Kayisi, Pambazuka, Kenya - According to Eco-Watch Africa, sexual harassment and violence against women and girls in the aftermath of natural disasters, like recent floods in Mozambique, is an enormous challenge. This means women will suffer both the...
Say No to Men Who Condone Abuse
by Elischia Fludd, Gender Links, South Africa - There can be no peace until there is zero tolerance of violence against women....
The Other Side of the Story on Domestic Abuse
by Barbara Kay, National Post, Canada - In academia, for ideological reasons, there have always been, and continue to be, areas where "the real world" makes an uncomfortable fit with sacred myths based in theory, not evidence. One such theory...
How Fame And Money Ruin Great Men
by Joy Wanja, Daily Nation, Kenya - Money and power have been described as potent aphrodisiacs, and the events of the past week seem to entrench that notion....
Playboy Emancipation?
by Holly Fox, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The first Turkish-German woman to appear on the cover of the German Playboy described the photos as an "act of liberation" from her strict upbringing. The story has reignited the debate on integration,...
Old Farms, New Men
by Siri Lindstad, Kilden, Norway - When traditional Norwegian farming is converted to nature-based agritourism, the gender roles on the farm change. Often the women become the general managers, while the men take over in the kitchen....
A Female Perspective of War: Sisters in Arms Documents Three Women's Choice to Fight
by Katherine Monk, Canada.com, Canada - ``Being in the military is challenging enough, but women remain such a minority in combat roles that they don't really have a support group of their own. They can be quite isolated, and yet,...
Unspoken: Foreign Correspondents and Sexual Abuse
by Judith Matloff, Columbia Journalism Review, USA - Women have risen to the top of war and foreign reportage. They run bureaus in dodgy places and do jobs that are just as dangerous as those that men do. But there...
Namibia: HIV Infection Higher in Women
by Irene !Hoaës, New Era, Namibia - Namibia is experiencing a feminisation of HIV/AIDS as women account for three out of every four new infections....
Mean Girls Get Meaner Online
by Nechama Brodie, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Shouting. Swearing. Pushing. Punching. It's not Fight Club, it's an average week at a suburban high school. And the protagonists are predominantly teenage girls....
A Critique of “The Girl Effect”
by Anna Carella, Aid Watch, USA - Rather than attempting to increase men’s domestic workload, the girl effect calls on women to carry the dual burden of housework and wealth creation....
Prized Women
by Negar Mohammadi, Iranian, USA - Whether it is a political decision or has a gender-discrimination dimension, it is almost impossible to ignore the impact of Nobel Prize on Women Nobel Laureates’ status quo locally and globally especially when chosen...
Benefit Cuts Will Hit Women the Hardest
by Janet Davies, Guardian, UK - Housing associations need to find their voice and lobby against inequality, as well as embracing tenant profiling if they're to support those who need it most....
Global Leadership: Voters Launch a Power Surge of Women
by Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, USA - Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff is the latest in a power surge of women in global leadership positions....
Are Women More Aggressive These Days?
by Brittany Shoot, Ms. Magazine, USA - Women’s aggressive behavior is often staking claim to space and identity rather than creating conflict....
Gaza’s Surfer Girls
by Sarah A. Topol, Atlantic, USA - Riding the waves and testing Hamas’s limits....
Conundrum
by Nicole Pope, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Turkey is surging forward on several fronts and is increasingly perceived as a major player, both economically and politically. But on gender equality, Turkey has barely left the starting block....
Women Changing the Face of Philanthropy
by Laura Eggertson, The Star, Canada - More and more women are realizing that they can use their money and their time strategically, and that they have influence even on family giving decisions...
African Women Writing Resistance
by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho and Anne Serafin, Pambazuka, Kenya - African women, energized by the path-breaking 2005 victory of Liberian Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman president of any African nation, are educating themselves and...
Focus on Women and Girls Key to MDG Success
by Janet Fleischman, AllAfrica, Mauritius - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, which has made women and girls a cornerstone of its Global Health Initiative, should seize the opportunity to turn these enlightened MDG goals into effective policies and...
Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part
by Jenny Nordberg, New York Times, USA - There are no statistics about how many Afghan girls masquerade as boys. But when asked, Afghans of several generations can often tell a story of a female relative, friend, neighbor or co-worker...
Sweden Ends the Use of Preferential Treatment
by Marte Ericsson Ryste, Gender Balance in Research, Norway - We must ask ourselves whether an even gender balance should always be a goal in itself. For some study programmes, such as early childhood education and psychology, it might be...
A Successful Work-Life Balance
by Anita Haslie, Kilden, Norway - Raising small children without stress, good health and a sense of fairness in the marriage – this is the experience of spouses in the 1970s who shared the responsibility of staying at home with...
Aid and NGOs
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - The transformation of an NGO applying feverishly for grants to ensure the continuation of integral projects that educate women about maternal health or provide shelter to abused and destitute women into a grant-giving organisation...
Househusbands Giving Birth To More Gender Equality
by Suvendrini Kakuchi, IPS, Italy - Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while his wife held on to her career in...
What Kind of Feminism Does War Provoke?
by Cynthia Cockburn, 50.50 inclusive democracy, UK - The to-ing and fro-ing about ‘women’s peaceful natures’ is no more than an excitable bubble of argument out of touch with facts on the ground. Antiwar feminism is a pretty holistic feminism...
Girls Only or Coed?
by Nicole Pope, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Should Turkey consider opening girls-only schools?...
The Tough Girls of the Federal District
by Mariana Fonseca Pires de Mello, Comunidad Segura, Brazil - In Brazil, and elsewhere in the world, girls are playing an increasingly prominent role in gangs, participating in a more daring, conspicuous and active way....
Is Environmental Injustice Morphing Little Girls’ Bodies?
by Michelle Chen, Colorlines, USA - The latest research adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that an array of social and environmental factors may be causing girls’ bodies to develop prematurely....
Gender Inequality Seen as a Major Obstacle in Meeting MDGs
by Dessy Sagita, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia - The decision-making process is a nightmare for many women, and they risk death by just waiting for their husbands to get home....
Women Must Look Beyond Affirmative Action
by Emilly C. Maractho, The Daily Monitor, Uganda - We can’t afford complacency. In fact, more action is needed to consolidate gains and address challenges faced by women in leadership. I remember my leadership experiences with nostalgia; the gossip,...
Julia Is One of Us and All Women Are Proud of Her
by Leslie Cannold, National Times, Australia - By proving wrong those who said there would not be a female prime minister in our lifetimes, the likes of Gillard kindle hope and incite rebellion....
Gender Apartheid Online
by Ruth Rosen, Talking Points Memo, USA - Gender equality will only emerge when men are educated about women's lives and when women stop being quarantined as "the other."...
GOP Women a Rising Force in the Party
by Susan Milligan, Boston Globe, USA - Female candidates are often seen by voters in both parties as agents of change just by virtue of their gender, she added, since they are still something of a novelty in many parts...
Religious Fundamentalism in Kenya: Fuelling Human Rights Abuses?
by Audrey Mbugua, Pambazuka, Kenya - Religious fundamentalism in Kenya has played a central role in the orchestration of gross human rights abuses against transsexuals and other minorities....
The Female Saudi Graduates: Smart but Jobless
by Caryle Murphy, National, UAE - Although Saudi laws and regulations based on the Sharia guarantee a woman’s right to work, they stipulate that she should work in an appropriate environment – that is, not mixing with men or being...
Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?
by Mary E. Hunt, Religion Dispatches, USA - The problem is not the person of the Pope as much as the understanding of the power of the papacy....
Why Women Were Shut Out of Canada’s Science-Star Search
by Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail, Canada - Government-appointed panel of female academics identify factors that led to all-male recruitment....
Gender Apartheid
by Samira Mohyeddin, Iranian.com, USA - When it comes to women and gender apartheid all these other factors are brought into play to justify and further demean women, in the name of social mores, religion, culture, etc....
Spain's Defense Minister Makes Her Mark in a Macho World
by Helene Zuber, Spiegel, Germany - Carme Chacón, Spain's first female defense minister, made headlines in 2008 when she took office while seven months pregnant. Two years later on, she is popular within the military and is seen as the...
The Untold Story of Women's Rights in Egypt
by Rasha Dewedar, Daily Star, Lebanon - In a report published last month on violent crimes committed against women in 2009, Karam Saber Ibrahim spoke of a belief that some Egyptians continue to hold, that “women are fundamentally lacking …...
Missing: 42.7 Million Women
by Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu, India - Lack of access to healthcare, malnutrition and selective abortion — all these have contributed to over 40 million women dying in India. And these are the issues the government needs to address now…...
Women’s Work
by Linda Yablonsky, New York Times, USA - Hardly a Tweet had been sent after the Whitney Museum of American Art released the names of the 55 artists selected for its 75th biennial before it was already known as “the...
The Politics of Empowerment in India
by Neeta Lal, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Short-term political gains and scoring points have been higher in the minds of Indian parliamentarians than righting the skewed gender picture when it comes to laws to increase the participation of woman...
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