EuroMed gender equality news

Even when we try to do all the right things, sometimes bias seeps into our  actions. A British writer named Joan Smith and a Swedish equal opportunities  organization called Crossing Boarders worked together to create Twee-Q, or the Twitter Equality Quotient, which gives you a  score based on how many times you re-tweet men or women in an effort to point  out bias in social media.
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"Rape has long been a weapon of war, but documenting sexual violence usually happens after a conflict is over. Researchers are taking a new path with the Syrian conflict: tracking the incidents of rape as they occur.

The Women Under Siege project is live-tracking how sexualized violence is being used in Syria. What's new is the data: information collected through crowdsourcing — reports on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from inside the country — which is then analyzed by public health researchers at Columbia University."