UN Women says online misogyny is pressing challenge

UN Women says online misogyny is pressing challenge

Online misogyny is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing challenges to gender equality in the digital age, UN Women says in a statement urging the media to expose the roots of online misogyny and prevent it from becoming normalised. “In the manosphere, influencers are spreading – and profiting from – controversial content that fuels misogyny, promotes unhealthy definitions of masculinity, and normalises violence against women and girls.” “So…

In the book "Trained to the hatred of women. How masculinists infiltrate social networks", journalist Pauline Ferrari recalls this well-known issue of the women's movement. Public authorities are hardly beginning to grasp the magnitude and gravity of the threat. Read the note (PDF) Read the article Online attacks on women: a major geopolitical issue appeared first on IRIS.