d+c/e+z briefing 2019 september gender

Gender specific socialisation

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Painting a mural of Alaa Salah, the icon of Sudan's protests against military rule .
Our view
– by Sabine Balk

Changing roles

A long socialisation process is still needed to make equality between women and men a reality
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Schools
– by Aditi Roy Ghatak

Indispensable lessons

Why teenage girls need sex education even more than teenage boys do
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Role models
– by Mona Naggar

Creative and committed

Young women in the Arab world pick strong and creative women as role models
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Gender relations
– by Virginia Mercado

Unequal opportunities

Though the law forbids discrimination in Mexico, the road to gender equity remains long
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Vocational training
– by Judy Thuo, Hans Dembowski

Front-face customer care

Why vocational training matters in Nairobi’s public-transport industry, and why young women in particular deserve job opportunities
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Socialisation
– by Britta Wiemers, Henry Cervantes

Preventing violence

Gender roles need to change to stop violence
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Internet
– by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu

Clicktivism

Ghanaian feminists are using social media to change public discourse
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Illicit labour
– by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard

Criminal girls

Criminal gangs have similar gender dynamics in Bangladesh and China
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Reproductive health
– by Rabson Kondowe

Making sanitary pads

In rural Malawi, non-governmental activists teach teenage girls to make sanitary pads
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Gender-based violence
– by Virginia Mercado, Sheila Mysorekar

Killed for being female

Femicides are frequent in Mexico, but civil-society organisations fight against this
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Girls and boys
– by Frank Masanta Jr.

Closing gender gaps in an NGO school

In Zambia, the Sun-spring Charity School enrols an equal number of girls and boys. It also uses gender-neutral language
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Handicrafts
– by Aditi Roy Ghatak

Kantha’s eternal beauty

Why traditional Bengali embroidery is now making a difference in many village women’s lives
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Sex education
– by Damilola Oyedele

Face the truth

Nigeria’s incidence of teenage pregnancies is unacceptably high
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Blog
– by Cema Tork

Ending the taboo

Award-winning Netflix documentary helps to break the stigma around menstruation
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