Jan 9th, 2010
By Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli
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What happens to language and the way women are addressed when they start to occupy positions of responsibility? Well, it depends on the language.
In Italian, most women prefer the masculine titles, because the feminine version (when it exists) is considered ludicrous, even derogatory.
Miren Gutierrez interviews SAADIA ZAHIDI, co-author of Global Gender Gap report
ROME, Dec 3 (IPS) – “It is clear that there are huge discrepancies within Sub-Saharan Africa, but overall the region is doing extremely well in terms of political empowerment,” says Saadia Zahidi, head of the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme at the World Economic [...]
Nov 27th, 2009
From 16 to 19 November, I organised a seminar about investigative environmental journalism in Albania for professional journalists working the environment and development beats. Albania is a small country facing hard environmental and development challenges and contradictions, as it tries to overcome its Communist past and be part of the European Union. This program aimed [...]
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) – “You don’t need to go far, it is all around us,” said Robert Dijksterhuis, head of the gender division in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to a room mostly full of women. “Up to one in three women around the world has been abused [...]
There Is A Sense Of Vindication – Gender-South Africa
Miren Gutierrez* interviews THENJIWE MTINTSO, Ambassador of South Africa to Italy
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) – Born in a squatter camp in Orlando East and raised by a single mother; working in a factory while completing secondary school by correspondence; arrested and banned by the apartheid government: South [...]