- 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.
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