Women in newsrooms: Canada gets it right
There is a women majority in Canadian newsrooms. 52.7% of all staff in the newsrooms identify as women compared to 46.7% who identify as men and 0.7% who identify as
Big equality gaps in the access to internet, says UN
Access to the internet still differs widely between rich and poor countries and considerably more men than women use the internet. The number of people who have used the Internet
Microsoft shareholders vote against management
Microsoft’s shareholders have backed a protest vote calling on the company to reveal more about its handling of sexual harassment claims, in the shadow of recent cases and the revelation
Women athletes need better protection on social media
Women athletes were the target of 87% of social media abuse during the Tokyo Olympics, according to a study from World Athletics. “These results raise concerns that existing safeguarding measures
Women’s mental health and safety pandemic’s victims
Women’s safety and metal health has suffered during the pandemic. A new report from UN Women shows 41% of women say their mental and emotional health have been negatively affected
She Figures 2021: women hold 60% of master degrees, but 25% of the top positions
The She Figures publication, first released in 2003 and updated every three years, presents data on gender equality objectives in the field of Research and Innovation (R&I) policy. This year’s
EU Commission to criminalize gender-based hate speech
The EU Commission will propose extending the list of ‘EU crimes’ to allow EU to criminalize gender-based hate speech and hate crime, the Commission’s vice president in charge of foreign
NFT art market: this is -also- man’s world
NFTs conception sounds in principle rather democratic, as it allows creators to monetize directly, selling globally on decentralized marketplaces; and on top of that to receive a percentage every time
European action to identify and trace femicide
EU needs a common EU-wide definition of femicide – the killing of women and girls because of their gender – the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) said when announcing
Gender but not racial balance in the newsroom of ‘The Atlantic’
The American magazine ‘The Atlantic’ was founded in Boston in the spring of 1857 and its mission statement was signed by many important American authors, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman