Women’sNet, the Internet- based women’s communications and advocacy initiative of SANGONeT and the Commission of Gender Equality is recruiting an intern. Our internship programme provides an opportunity for South African women to develop their information communications and technology (ICT) skills and gain valuable work experience for a nine-month period.

At a time when many inequalities between women and men are being removed, the profession that supplies us with much of our information — call it publishing for short — is still lagging behind.

Gender training is central to gender and development (GAD) work in East Africa and Kenya. In the 1980s, gender work was strongly linked to women’s issues and male gender trainers were disparagingly received. How vital are gender trainers in transforming the attitudes of men resistant to gender quality?

A new resource on the International Labour Organisation website, [email protected], is designed to provide a compilation of basic information on gender equality laws, policies and programmes. [email protected] is easy-to-access and available without charge in a CD-ROM and on the Internet.