17 must-read gender stories of the week

Welcome to your weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics.

Climate change: Women are more vulnerable. (The Independent)

HSBC, name-blind CVs, balanced shortlists, and gender parity targets. (The Guardian)

Getting more women into Malaysian politics. Women make up just 11 per cent of members of parliament. (Malaysian Digest)

Saudi women begin campaigning in polls for the first time. (Al Jazeera)

The only Asian woman in the boardroom, Singapore Post. (Financial Times)

Indian women smash one of the country’s biggest taboos. (Quartz)

5 regional views on gender parity. (World Economic Forum)

How can more women become business leaders? (World Economic Forum)

Glimmers of light in bid to stop violence against women in North Africa. (The Conversation)

A few good women: Japanese military’s next challenge. (Quartz)

The 19 countries with the highest ratio of women to men in higher education. (Business Insider)

Writing feminism out of history. Again. (The Guardian)

The relationship between women’s education and fertility. (World Economic Forum)

The Gambia bans female genital mutilation. (The Guardian)

Can digital financial services help close the gender gap? (World Economic Forum)

Asia struggles for a solution to its ‘missing women’ problem. (Wall Street Journal)

Gender and monetary policy. (World Economic Forum)

Statistic of the Week 

90% of the 150,000 people killed in the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone were women.
The World Bank

Quote of the week

“Combatting climate change means fighting for women’s rights.”

Laurent Fabius
COP21 President-Designate, Foreign Minister of the French Republic

Image: Shoppers wearing face masks walk to The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands on a hazy day in Singapore June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Edgar Su