In Brief
Arts in Brief
By PRESCA AHN
December 2009
December is the last full month in the run of "Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video," which has been on view in New York at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. ...
Sex & Health in Brief
December 2009
The Women Faculty Forum has released yet another report on sexual misconduct at Yale. The report comes as part of an increasing push from faculty and student groups to reform university policy and education surround ing this issue. ...
Politics in Brief
By PRESCA AHN
December 2009
After the past spring’s remarkable election protests, in which women participated in unprecedented numbers, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration is making an example of female activists. ...Politics
Misrepresentation: Flawed Affirmative Action in Uganda’s National Parliament
In the past fifteen years, the African continent, thought by many to be a breeding ground for traditional conceptions of gender, has seen the induction of some of the world’s highest percentages of women’s representation in their national legislatures.
Women of the World
Interview with Yale World Fellow Beatrice Mategwa
Meet Beatrice Mategwa, a broadcast journalist who directs the television unit of the United Nations Mission in Sudan.