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http://www.niqash.org/articles/?id=2967 Interesting look at fashion and hair among Iraqi MPs.

I noticed that one of my worthy colleagues posted a NY Times article that discusses the lack of female contributors to Wikipedia in a sidebar.  While I cannot address this directly, I can say that my friend and colleague at Georgetown University, Rochelle Davis uses the update of Wikipedia as a tool in her teaching.  … Read more

Welcome to the blog for Spring 2012. Students in my course, Anthropology 3200, “Women’s Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” will be sharing op-ed pieces about critical issues affecting women during the semester. I invite them to take a tour of the blog and explore the links, older postings, book reviews and previous op-ed pieces. We will … Read more

Poland and South Korea have both undergone significant societal changes within recent decades.  Both societies democratized suddenly after long periods under authoritarian rule, whether military or communist.  For gays and lesbians in South Korea and Poland, these changes brought exciting new opportunities, but also major obstacles.  One of the largest hurdles they face is the … Read more

With increased globalization comes an increased global awareness of the educational, financial and healthcare disparities between the women residing in the global north and the global south.  The global north/global south terminology is fairly new, and refers to developed nations in the northern hemisphere and the underdeveloped nations in the southern hemisphere, respectively.  With this … Read more

In a news story out today, the sex ratio of girls to boys under age 8 has worsened dramatically over the past decade. Ten years ago, there wree 927 females alive at age 8 for every 1000 boys alive. According to India’s most recent census it is now 914 females for every 1000 males alive … Read more

This article was interesting in that it discussed how fewer women support capital punishment in the United States as compared to men, citing reasons such as wrongful convictions, the impact on the communities, the economic impact, and impact on the victims families. -Lenna Jones Death Penalty Gender Gap

This article brings new ways of dealing with Title IX for universities.  Title IX is a very controversial topic to most people but this article explains ways in which to work with Title IX.  Most universities do not know how to handle Title IX and end up cutting male programs to get extra cash and … Read more