Is the Internet becoming a tool to silence women?

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The question of whether the Internet is being used to reinforce inequality and to silence women online, has been raised in a blog co-authored by Dr Olga Jurasz, OU Senior Lecturer in Law.

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Can care build a better economy?

The Open University hosted its third lecture in its Global Development Annual Lecture series on 22 October 2026, delivered by Naila Kabeer, Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics, a faculty member of their International Inequalities Institute, and on the government board of the Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity.