What do the MDG's mean for women? UNIFEM's New Video Series

UNIFEM has just released a video series with a gendered perspective on the Millennium Development Goals. Kudos to UNIFEM for pointing out a much needed but missing MDG goal on Violence Against Women.

You can view the video series on the UNIFEM site or on Wikigender. Here's the video on the gendered perspective on eradicating poverty

Women on Opinion Pages - The OpEd Project

This weekend, I participated in a wonderful workshop organized by the OpEd Project. The OpEd project organizes workshops around the country to train women on how to write OpEds. Currently, about 90% of submissions to the country's OpEd pages are submissions by men.



I highly recommend the training as it not only gave me the tools on how to write OpEds but also taught me how to better talk about myself and my expertise. I highly recommend signing up for a workshop in your area!

What's the Effect of Grassroots Women Run NGOs?

Are NGOs run by women better suited to meet the needs of women? I asked myself this question while developing wiki (www.global-womens-network.org) content. There's an interesting study conducted by researchers at John's Hopkins University which finds that female leadership grounded in a gendered perspective can better relate to the needs of other women. What seems particularly interesting about the study is that it focused on grassroots organizations rather than large well known NGOs, which have already been the subject of documentation. Considering there are over a million NGOs in India, this study only touches the surface....and makes me wonder if similar studies have taken place in any other countries?