Gender News

[DMR: gender equality app] Levelling the gender playing field in Jordan

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102652 This is a short news story about a Jordanian woman who volunteers with HeForShe, the UN gender equality campaign....

The Nobel Prize and Gender

I wanted to share this recent article from the BBC about the question of gender and ethnicity quotas for the...

[News re: non-binary individuals] How society’s views on gender impact relationships (and more)

Here is an article that summarizes how US society impacts non-binary people. It touches on pronouns, romantic relationships, and social...

Iceland aaaaalmost had a female-majority parliament

Sadly, the dream was not to be, but Iceland is one of the few nations in the world to come...

#MeToo: China court dismisses landmark sex harassment case

This article is about a result of a lawsuit against Chinese most famous TV host, it also talks about MeToo...

Canada’s first Indigenous Governor General is bilingual in Inuktitut and English–not French (DMR)

On July 26, 2021, Mary Simon became Canada’s first Indigenous Governor General (the Queen’s representative and head of state).  Gov....

Where Were the Hijabs on the Met Gala Red Carpet?

This article, linked here, is written by Libyan American journalist Noor Tagouri. In the context of a broader critique of...

The Gender Binary in Language Classes

This article deals with gendered language, and how some language teachers are tackling that issue in the classroom.

Comparing Medalists by Gender at the 2020 Olympics & Paralympics

Here’s a resource I found to be interesting: Team USA’s 2020 Olympic Infographic Team USA’s 2020 Paralympic Infographic For both...

The Link Between Texas’s New Abortion Law and Its New Voting Laws

This article examines the new abortion laws in Texas through a lens of racial history and in tandem with new...

How Language Classrooms are Moving Past the Gender Binary

This article from the New York Times showed up in the ACTFL SmartBrief newsletter today. It’s about teaching gendered languages...

Silence! The Xianzi Versus Zhu Jun Court Case Has Begun

Xianzi (弦子) is a nickname for Zhou Xiaoxuan, a 27-year-old scriptwriter from Beijing who published a personal essay on social...

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