#GoodRead | The Absence of Women from Middle East Policy Debates: An Update

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"The Absence of Women from Middle East Policy Debates: An Update":

Our article Tuesday on The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, The mysterious absence of women from Middle East policy debates, garnered significant attention and, we hope, generated discussion within Washington’s think tanks and media organizations about how to advance the goal of gender parity in all our work.

Many people asked for the data that underlie our article’s claim that 65% of last year’s Middle East events at six major think tanks lacked any women speakers. We present that data below…

Read Tamara Cofman Wittes and Marc Lynch's full article at Brookings Institution here…