The Week’s Best Posts on GAB: February 13-17, 2012

Here’s this week’s best posts from Gender Across Borders. Maybe you missed reading our global gender justice articles from this past week, or want to read them again because they’re that good. So! Here goes…

GAB’s best posts from the week that was . . .

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Apparently, when I think about Valentine’s Day, I think about sodomy.  But not without good reason!  In many parts of the world, a large chunk of society is legally banned from sexual expressions of love and affection for a chosen partner.  A practice rooted in British colonialism, fear of effeminate masculinity, and clinging to imagined traditions, sodomy laws continue to impose penalties as harsh as life sentences or death.

-From A Valentine’s Day Update on Global Sodomy Laws by Avory Faucette

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So I ask myself what women’s presence and involvement in Occupy Nigeria means for women and women’s rights – will it advance them or will things stay the same? Although I suspect it will take years before we can answer the question of how women’s protesting is related to women’s rights, it cannot be denied that we live in an increasingly politicised world where women’s active participation is more visible.

-From Women and #OccupyNigeria by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed

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While men and women in politics may support the same agenda regarding women’s issues, women politicians are more often involved with championing legislation that benefits women across society. Various studies have shown that women in positions of power serve as excellent role models for other women and girls, as well as, change stereotypical notions about gender roles.

-From Irish Women’s Political Representation: Are Quotas the Answer? by Nadia Smiecinska

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