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Safer platforms, stronger participation: Mapping gender-based violence online in Syria

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 57 pp.

"Findings show that Gender-Based Violence Online( GBVO) in Syria is normalized and systemic, not merely isolated incidents, functioning as a mechanism of social control that reinforces patriarchal power and restricts civic participation. It takes overlapping forms, including sexual blackmail, harass ... more

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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Anna Cant

Gender & History (2026), 13 pp.

"The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non-governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACP ... more

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Smartphone Distribution Alone Will Never Close the Gender Gap

Wayan Vota

ICTworks, August 11 (2026)

"Surprise! Giving smartphones to women doesn’t work. A rigorous study from Tanzania tracked women who received smartphones through a distribution program and found that only 34% still possessed their handsets after 13 months. Let that sink in. We’re achieving a 66% failure rate on the most basic ... metric possible. The reasons mirror every failed technology intervention I’ve witnessed over two decades in this field. Women lose smartphones through device theft, technical breakdowns, forgotten passwords they can’t reset without computer access, and social restrictions within households. Rural women predominantly receive secondhand feature phones as gifts from male family members, while men upgrade to new smartphones. This hardware gender divide creates what researchers call “complex patterns in work redistribution.” Men transition from unpaid work to formal employment opportunities enabled by smartphone access, while women often shift into unpaid positions. We’re not just failing to close the gender gap—we’re potentially reinforcing existing inequalities by shifting unpaid labor burdens to women. The regional data exposes the limitations of our current approach. South Asia exhibits the world’s highest gender gaps in mobile technology access, with a staggering 32% mobile internet gender gap that has remained virtually unchanged since 2017. In India, 67% of men own mobile phones compared to only 33% of women—a 34-percentage-point gap that constitutes nearly half the level of male phone ownership. The barriers aren’t primarily economic. Research reveals that income and women’s empowerment have similar explanatory power for predicting mobile phone ownership, suggesting that normative and economic constraints are equally important. Phone usage can raise questions about girls’ “purity” before marriage, while social norms dictate that married women’s primary responsibility is household care, leaving few opportunities for socially acceptable “productive” phone use. The WhatsApp gender gap data reveals the same pattern. Women are 38% less likely than men to use internet-based messaging in India, rising to 50% less likely in rural areas. Even when women gain access to smartphones, they use internet services less frequently than men and for narrower ranges of activities, citing safety concerns, affordability constraints, and poor connectivity experiences." (https://www.ictworks.org) more

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Visual Culture and Gender in Mexico

Eli Bartra

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2026), xi, 245 pp.

"This open access book begins by setting out a conceptual, political, historical, and personal framework that serves to anchor the Mexican visual culture it goes on to address. To this end, it also provides a brief overview of feminist thinking from the late nineteenth century to the present day, wh ... more

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How Afghan women amplify their voices through digital activism: A study of global engagement and local cultural resistance

Fardin Ayar

Journal of Multicultural Discourses, volume 21, issue 3 (2026), pp. 346-369

"Under Taliban rule, Afghan women, who make up more than half of the country’s population, face systematic restrictions in accessing education, employment, and other fundamental rights. Despite efforts to silence their voices, Afghan women have not given up; they have adopted Innovative strategies ... more

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Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis

Batoul Al Medhar, Sharon Geeling, Nagla Rizk, Funda Ustek Spilda, Eisha Afifi, Joseph Budu, Pitso Tsibolane et al.

Platforms & Society, volume 2 (2025), 16 pp.

"Hopes that the growth of platform work in Africa will provide new opportunities for women’s employment have not yet been matched by empirical research. Based on a five-country survey of workers on 18 platforms across four sectors (ride-hailing, delivery, professional, microtasks), the research re ... more

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Women and Leadership in the News Media 2025: Evidence from 12 Markets

Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 11 pp.

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Guía de investigación de casos de violencia de género facilitada por la tecnología (VGFT)

Heidy Gil, Adriana Pérez Tudela

La Paz: InternetBolivia; Asociación Aguayo; ONU Mujeres (2025), 50 pp.

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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds

Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)

Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.

"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level ... of impact for the communities. Impact was considered across a number of indices. We wanted to show that attitudes have shifted, policies have been rewritten and the life experiences and ranges of possibility for some have changed for the better as a result of women’s work. We hope to show through our stories that film can change lives; that sharing stories matters; and that women are everywhere, using their skills in screen production for the good of many. In her excellent book, Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power, Susan Liddy (2020) offers ‘a wide-ranging, critical assessment of practice, policy and progress’ to establish the range and scale of gender inequality that currently exists in the world of screen production. She quotes O’Neill and Domingo (2015) to point out that social, economic and political conditions vary, and ‘combine in different ways to enable or constrain women’s agency and leadership’ in screen production (Liddy 2020: 1). In contrast, our book approaches the same problem from the opposite perspective: we seek to correlate the ‘policy, practice and power’ (Liddy 2020) with the actual work of women screenwriters. Our aim is to point out what women screenwriters, creators and filmmakers are doing in disparate corners of the world, and how their effort is positively impacting communities, shaping culture and creating change. We argue that, despite the fact that women screenwriters are underrepresented in leadership roles in film industries worldwide, the impact of their films remains visible and palpable. We provide evidence that, as women step into the roles of screenwriter, filmmaker and collaborator, using known and emerging technologies, formats and genres under the broad scope of ‘screen production’, they raise the voices of other women and other communities. This volume shows the impact of women’s voices in creating real change for the communities whose stories are told through the topics and themes of these women’s screen works. Not least, this volume seeks to celebrate these women and their communities and bring awareness of that impact to broader communities worldwide." (Introduction, page 1) more

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AI and Data Science Bootcamp for Women and Minoritised Groups: Impact Report

Luisa Olaya, Deshni Govender, Abeera Dubey, Jocelyn Mukamisha, Mary Seiwah

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward; Intel (2025), vii, 35 pp.

"The AI and Data Science Bootcamp for Women and Minoritised Groups was designed to actively address the diversity gap in the AI field by lowering the entry barriers that women and minoritised groups face and empowering them with advanced technical and personal development skills to succeed in the AI ... more

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Digital Violence Against Women

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) (2025)

"ARIJ published in-depth reports addressing digital violence against women in Egypt and in conflict-affected countries such as Yemen, Palestine, and Sudan. The female journalists behind these reports participated in specialized workshops that enhanced their expertise in tackling gender-based violenc ... more

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Women Journalists, Proximity Radios and Conflicts in Burkina Faso: Weaving the Social Fabric for Peace

Viviane Schönbächler

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xix, 328 pp.

"This book explores the complex relationships between proximity radio and conflict in Burkina Faso from the perspective of female radio journalists. The study is based on in-depth qualitative field research, including interviews, audio diaries, and radio content analysis, using an analytical framewo ... more

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Who Makes the News? Progress on a Plateau. Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Special Edition: 30-year Findings on Change in Gender Equality In and Through the World News Media
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Sarah Macharia, Maximiliano Dueñas Guzmán, Rodrigo Molina et al.

Toronto: World Association of Christian Communication (WACC); Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) (2025), 123 pp.

"This report presents the findings of the seventh iteration of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) global snapshot, based on 30,049 news articles containing 58,563 people and 26,708 news personnel in 94 countries on the 7th global monitoring day, May 6, 2025. Key Findings: 1. Thirty years a ... go, the report of the first GMMP called for a shift in coverage beyond the male-dominated realms of political and economic power. Not only has the hierarchy of “hard news” in legacy media persisted across time, it has also crossed over into digital outlets. 2. Digitalization did not bring a radical break from the patriarchal norms of traditional journalism. Instead, it continues to reinforce and amplify a news hierarchy that privileges spheres and issues centred on power, namely, those dominated by men. The challenge is threefold. First, to dismantle the “hard news” bias, second, to integrate more intentionally spaces and issues of greater concern to women, and third, to enable visibility and voice to women present in traditionally male-dominated spaces. 3. After a period of slow but steady improvement, progress toward gender parity in the news has flatlined since around 2010, failing to reach 50% in any media type. Thirty years after Beijing, women are 26% of those seen, heard, or spoken about in legacy news (29% on news websites). The needle has shifted 9 points in legacy media since 1995, and 4 points in online news during the past 10 years. Minority groups are five points more likely to be present in digital news than in legacy media. The probability of minority women being featured in the news as the main protagonists or as interviewees is two in a hundred in traditional media (3% for men) and 4% on news websites (5% for men). 4. Women’s visibility in political and economic news beats has increased significantly – by 15 points each – over the past three decades. The severe underrepresentation noted in 1995 (7% in political news, 10% in economic news) has improved. Women’s presence in sports news is abysmal, at only 15% of news subjects and sources. 5. The proportion of women providing expert testimony has grown remarkably over the decades, showing the highest increase (+7 points) in digital news since 2015. In legacy media, the gender gap in authoritative roles as experts and spokespersons has closed at a slower pace than for persons providing testimony based on popular opinion and personal experience – ordinary roles that require no specialized knowledge. 6. Patterns of gender-biased portrayal endure despite decades of change in women’s roles in the real world. Women have remained about twice as likely as men to be portrayed as victims since 2010. Historically, women were most often portrayed as victims of accidents or poverty. This pattern was overturned in 2025, with “other crime” and “domestic violence” (by intimate partners and family members) becoming the top victim categories. Women depicted as survivors in legacy media were most likely to have survived “accidents, natural disasters, poverty, and disease” in previous GMMP studies. In 2025, they are most frequently portrayed as domestic violence survivors in equal proportion to accident/disaster survivors. The over-representation of women as homemakers/parents decreased from 81% in 2000 to 73% in 2025, indicating some progress, albeit a persistent journalistic bias toward defining women by domestic roles, despite women’s current unprecedented engagement in work outside the home. Underrepresentation in occupations and in positions of power has remained consistent. The tendency to describe women by their age and physical attributes has also persisted. They have been photographed more often than men (a 7–9-point difference) over the past two decades, with qualitative analysis continuing to show patterns of sexualised portrayal [...]" (Key findings, pages 2-3) more

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Pakistani Women Journalists: Occupational Hazards in Their Intersectionalities of Gender, Culture and Profession

Haroon ur Rasheed Baloch, Amira Firdaus, Iffat Ali Aksar, Farrah Dina Yusop, Jiankun Gong, Humaira Sharif

Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1986-2002

"Grounded in the intersections of culture, gender and occupation, this paper explores the challenges and barriers faced by “elite” Pakistani women working in a journalistic profession steeped in male dominance shaped by patriarchal values. One-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with nine ... more

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Patterns of Inclusion: How Gender Matters for Automation, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

Elisabeth Kelan

Oxford; 9781032669892 (pbk): Routledge (2025), xiv, 169 pp.

"It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work. Yet gender is rarely considered in those debates. This path-breaking book, written by a leading thinker on gender, inclusion and organisations, Elisabeth Kelan, is based on in-depth rese ... more

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Mulheres da comunicação: Região Nordeste

Nilda Jacks, Lírian Sifuentes, Guilherme Libardi, Gustavo Said, Leila Sousa (coord.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 353 pp.

"Este livro celebra a trajetória acadêmica das mulheres que ajudaram a construir o campo da comunicação na Região Nordeste. Organizado por regiões, os volumes resgatam as histórias de pesquisadoras que, como fundadoras e consolidadoras, desafiaram estruturas e deixaram sua marca na produção ... more

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Mulheres da comunicação: Região Centro-Oeste

Nilda Jacks, Lírian Sifuentes, Guilherme Libardi, Márcia Gomes, Benedito Dielcio Moreira, Dione Oliveira Moura

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 276 pp.

"Este livro celebra a trajetória acadêmica das mulheres que ajudaram a construir o campo da Comunicação no Brasil. Organizado por regiões, os volumes resgatam as histórias de pesquisadoras que, como fundadoras e consolidadoras, desafiaram estruturas e deixaram sua marca na produção de conhec ... more

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Mulheres da comunicação: Região Sudeste

Nilda Jacks, Lírian Sifuentes, Guilherme Libardi, Gisela Castro, Gabriela Santos Alves, Vanessa Viega de Oliveira (coord.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 458 pp.

"Este livro celebra a trajetória acadêmica das mulheres que ajudaram a construir o campo da Comunicação na Região Sudeste. Organizado por regiões, os volumes resgatam as histórias de pesquisadoras que, como fundadoras e consolidadoras, desafiaram estruturas e deixaram sua marca na produção ... more

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Gender Profile of the Ukrainian Media

Zoia Krasovska, Lisa Kuzmenko, Tetiana Avdieieva

Women in Media (2025), 39 pp.

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Mulheres da comunicação: Região Norte

Nilda Jacks, Lírian Sifuentes, Guilherme Libardi, Vilso Santi Jnuio, Juliana Lofego (coord.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 402 pp.

"Este livro celebra a trajetória acadêmica das mulheres que ajudaram a construir o campo da Comunicação na Região Norte. Organizado por regiões, os volumes resgatam as histórias de pesquisadoras que, como fundadoras e consolidadoras, desafiaram estruturas e deixaram sua marca na produção de ... more

Who Makes the News? Progress on a Plateau. Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Special Edition: 30-year Findings on Change in Gender Equality In and Through the World News Media Deep Insights

Who Makes the News? Progress on a Plateau. Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Special Edition: 30-year Findings on Change in Gender Equality In and Through the World News Media
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