Women’s March 2019
Thousands of people gathered in protest marches for women's rights around the world on 19th January 2019. For the third time, the Women's March took place in Washington, London, Berlin, Rome and many other cities around the world. We asked Kara Wuest from Global Fund...
We welcome our new member: Women and Memory Forum, Giza, Egypt
The Women and Memory Forum (WMF) was founded as a feminist non-governmental organization in 1995. Conceptualized as an organization whose aim is to focus on gender and women’s studies, the emphasis is placed on searching for and making available alternative cultural...
Exhibition preview of the women’s museum in Fürth, Germany
In 2019 the Museum Frauenkultur Regional-International in Fürth, Germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On occasion of the anniversary the new exhibition at the museum is called "Rückblick Nach Vorne. 1989 - 2019 - 2030". It will ask questions like how women in...
Stopping gender stereotyped toys in 2019
The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom recently announced that it will release a new code to ban gender stereotyping in advertisements in June 2019. Harmful gender stereotypes will be banned from advertisement of British companies. After the...
Meeting of IAWM members in Argentina
On 12th November 2018 Graciela Tejero from the Museo de la Mujer in Buenos Aires, Claudia Mandel Katz from the Museo de las Mujeres in Costa Rica, and Ana Silvia from the initiative for a women’s museum in Guatemala came together for a small meeting of Latin American...
October 2018: women’s museums conference in Istanbul
From 21st to 22nd October 2018 the First Asian and European IAWM Women’s Museums Conference took place in Istanbul. Women’s museum founders and researchers from Turkey, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, USA, Spain, Argentina, United Kingdom,...