- Women missing…online? The Huffington Post has reported that the gender gap exists online– with 200 million fewer women using the internet than men.
- Scholars, students, and the general public are set to sit in for a 6-hour editing party at Brown University to try to remedy the gender imbalance on wikipedia (NYT suggests that only 15% of its editors are women).
- One area where there is a little gender equality? Apparently there is equal gender representation of gay characters on US television. HBO has the most number of gay characters in total (duh).
- Jeni Klugman at Reuters wrote an interesting post on why development must tackle gender-based violence. She claims that- essentially- “Violence keeps women poor.”
- Women’s Agenda last month published popular post with three tips for talking about gender equality in a social setting. Yesterday they followed it up with a discussion of How not to Talk about Gender Equality.
Megan MacKenzie is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney in Australia. Her main research interests include feminist international relations, gender and the military, the combat exclusion for women, the aftermaths of war and post-conflict resolution, and transitional justice. Her book Beyond the Band of Brothers: the US Military and the Myth that Women Can't Fight comes out with Cambridge University Press in July 2015.
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