Daily Monitor
Monday March 08 2021
This year’s theme for the International Women’s Day is ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world.’ The idea of achieving an equal future post Covid-19 seems far-fetched. Yet, it is possible to be deliberate in pursuing that goal.
The role of women in leadership has been the main topic whenever the subject of women’s empowerment is brought up.
‘Increase the number of women in leadership if you want to see results’ we are often told. Policy makers have gone ahead to not only create affirmative action to that effect, but also some, such as in Uganda, created quotas for women in politics.
March 7 - 2021 DABANGA SUDAN
Women attend a workshop on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security (Sojoud Elgarrai/UNAMID)
Since Sudan reached the public eye over years of civil war in Darfur, Kordofan, and the Blue Nile, under which war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide
were committed, Sudanese women have been cast as the victims of physical and sexual violence in the media.
While Sudanese women continue to be disproportionately affected by violence in its various forms in the country, they have also been at the forefront of the revolution, demanding justice and peace. “Known to be leaders in all aspects of society, these women have taken on the part of caretakers, heads of households, and now, the face of the Sudanese revolution,” according to Washington-based Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG).
Margaret E Ward: Irish media has a problem with women
Women make up fewer than one-third of Irish media professionals, even less at top level. How can the industry report on society if it doesn’t reflect it, asks Margaret E Ward
Margaret E Ward
Margaret E. Ward
But if any of us analysed Irish media today what might we find?
Whose opinions, experiences, and interests are reflected in the pages of national newspapers, during the radio segments that shape public opinion and on influential TV programmes?
Does this snapshot truly represent Irish society? Whose voices are missing or underrepresented? Why?
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In March 2020, as COVID-19 spread around the world and political leaders began to realise that an immediate response to the pandemic would involve personal sacrifices and public action, politicians and their directors of public health policies took to stadiums, lecterns, and cameras to speak about the need to stay home, shut schools and nurseries, ration access to grocery stores and health services.
The men, and they were usually men, spoke of social cohesion and a need to act selflessly and responsibly. The women, and they were usually women, who took on the greatest burden on housework, childcare and responsibility for ageing parents, sighed, took a deep breath and got to work.