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The Swedish Research Council’s gender equality observations aim to investigate the Council’s evaluation process from a gender equality perspective and to identify particular points where improvements can be made. In this report the authors shed light on the various elements of the process and follow up its development since the previous observation study. An overall conclusion from the observations is that when various informal structures or unstated assessment criteria influence the process, this has an adverse effect on gender equality. To minimise the impact of these, the authors propose a greater formalisation of the process.

This report is also available in Swedish, under the name ”En jämställd process?”

Wikipedia is a community-created encyclopedia that contains information about notable people from different countries, epochs and disciplines and aims to document the world's knowledge from a neutral point of view. However, the narrow diversity of the Wikipedia editor community has the potential to introduce systemic biases such as gender biases into the content of Wikipedia. In this paper we aim to tackle a sub problem of this larger challenge by presenting and applying a computational method for assessing gender bias on Wikipedia along multiple dimensions. We find that while women on Wikipedia are covered and featured well in many Wikipedia language editions, the way women are portrayed starkly differs from the way men are portrayed. We hope our work contributes to increasing awareness about gender biases online, and in particular to raising attention to the different levels in which gender biases can manifest themselves on the web.

The Global Network of UNESCO Chairs in Gender announces the launching of the second volume in the E Book series, "Gender perspectives in case studies across continents".

The Editor is Dr. Brenda Gael McSweeney (Visiting Faculty at Boston University´s Women´s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program specializing in Gender & International Development, and Resident Scholar, Women´s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University). The volume includes a Foreword by Saniye Gülser Corat (Director, Division of Gender Equality Office of the Director-General, UNESCO) and an Afterword by Gloria Bonder (Director of the Gender, Society and Policies Area of FLACSO Argentina, and Coordinator of the Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on Gender).

This volume comprises case studies from nine countries that address challenging global priorities: gender gaps in education, women's livelihoods and political voice, confronting domination, and activism across the decades. The authors are UNESCO Chairholders, and Partners and affiliates of the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Gender, Culture and Development.

Here are the links:

To the Global Network announcement: http://catunescomujer.org/globalnetwork/news.html

To the volume itself: http://www.catunescomujer.org/globalnetwork/docs/Ebook2-15Dec2014.pdf

Differences in household total energy use in different countries have mainly been explained by levels of income/expenditure. However, studies of gender consumption patterns show that men eat more meat than women and drive longer distances, potentially leading to higher total energy use by men. This study examined the total energy use for men’s and women’s consumption patterns in four European countries (Germany, Norway, Greece and Sweden) by studying single households. Significant differences in total energy use were found in two countries, Greece and Sweden. Housing, food and transport constituted 61-76% of total energy consumption in the four countries, regardless of gender. The largest differences found between me n and women were for travel and restaurants, alcohol and tobacco, where me n used substantially more energy than women. Men consumed 70-80% more energy on transport than women in Germany and Norway, 100% more in Sweden and 350% more in Greece. These differences were mostly explained by men’s higher operating costs for cars, including fuel, repairs and spare parts. For items such as medicine, household textiles, furniture and food, women us ed more energy than men, but the differences between male and female households were rather small.