Gender selective abortion, big breasts and badasses

DJ’s choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to genderit at apcwomen.org or tweet us your links using #genderit.

A dollhouse to inspire young women into science, engineering and technology?

“An inspiring play that goes far beyond today.” Roominate, a dollhouse designed to get girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math. More >

Source: TheAge, Stathi Paxinos

Big breasts and badasses: The dividing line of gender representation in gaming

“The interesting nature to me of the game’s design is how these two resources (tattoos and seashells) both correlate to the appearance of both men and women.” More >

Source: PopMatters, G. Christopher Williams

Twitter expands safety team to better monitor harassment online

Twitter claims to have tripled the number of staff working on safety issues as well as put in place new systems to track harassment and abusive behavior on their platform. More >

Source: BetaBoston, Nidhi Subbaraman

A vote to criminalise gender-selective abortion will be a disaster for women

“MPs will vote on whether to amend the serious crime bill to make abortion based on foetal gender a crime.” More >

Source: The Guardian, Rebecca Schiller

Facebook is now letting you decide who will run your page after you die

Facebook now allows you to choose a legacy contact, a person to run your page after you die. More >

Source: BuzzFeed, Rachel Zarrell

This is it from GenderIT.org DJ for this week! Enjoy it, share it, dig into it. Feedback is always welcome. Send us interesting material to genderit at apcwomen.org or tweet us your links using #genderit

GenderIT.org, Women’s Rights Programme, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), March 3rd 2015