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Gender inequality in the higher education institutions in Armenia: causes and consequences
Gender equality in academia is viewed in the first instance as a human rights concern, but also as a premise for quality higher education and innovative science.
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Five issues that matter to Kyrgyzstan’s Girl-Activists
Kyrgyzstan’s devochki-activistki (girl-activists) are girls aged between 13 and 17-years-old fighting for equality, justice and diversity in a challenging environment for girls’ rights.
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Call for proposals: Diversity Outreach and Support for NAFSA 2015 in Boston, MA
Submissions for the poster fair category “Increasing Diversity Outreach and Support for Education Abroad” at the 2015 NAFSA Annual Conference in Boston, MA are now open. The deadline to submit proposals for the […]
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A student movement against a mishandled sexual abuse investigation rocks west Bengal
The Indian state of West Bengal it witnessing a revolution of sorts in #Hokkolorob, the ”Let There Be Noise” movement, which started in Jadavpur University last month and is spread like wildfire across the country.
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The young Roma women who are changing their communities
It isn’t because they don’t have their own televisions. Most of the families have large screens at home, but in this impoverished, isolated and marginalised Roma community, where there is no rubbish collection, no school, no street lights and no bus, the neighbours are not here for the TV, but for Magdalini.
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“What can a woman do?” Gender norms in a Nigerian university
Are universities necessarily transformative spaces for women students? Research at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, raises critical questions around how conservative gender norms are replicated by young students, in particular in the burgeoning culture of religious student organisations.
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Singapore’s libraries don’t want kids reading about tango the penguin and his two loving fathers
Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) has banned and destroyed copies of three children’s books that deal with same-sex couples and adoption after it received a complaint that the books are not ‘pro-family’.
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The ‘women-in-STEM-wash’: diversity in science appropriated for corporate branding
Although female participation in science and engineering has won recent high-profile victories, the appropriation of diversity for corporate branding and neoliberal agendas is creating the gender equivalent of green-washing
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Islamic dress as bar to female education in Tajikistan
Government seems to equate headscarves with security threats posed by militant groups.
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Education and flags: seminal for winning the hearts and minds of Syria’s new generation?
How do Salafi and Salafi-Jihadi groups in Syria use education and flags to foster supportive identities among school students in liberated areas’? These play a significant role in drawing the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Syrian society.
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