January 2021

THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP: STATS ARE OUT AND THE NEWS IS NOT GOOD

Well, unless you live in Iceland. The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 2009 report on the Global Gender Gap last week, and Iceland is at the top of the list. The country has the highest gender equality index of 134 countries analyzed. According to the Feminist Majority Foundation, the WEF’s “Global Gender Gap Report 2009 determined

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CLIMATE CHANGE HITS WOMEN HARDER, SO WHERE ARE THE FEMINIST VOICES?

I grew up knowing my country was drowning. My childhood memories are full of flashing images of annual monsoon rains making rivers out of our roads, lakes out of our rice paddy fields, washing away farmers’ harvests, pushing the rural population into our already overpopulated capital city. Of course the yearly floods alternated with even

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