I’m defrosting in Dar es Salaam next week, hanging with one of my all-time favourite NGOs – Twaweza.
![Glass-ceiling index, by country](https://frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/glass-ceiling-index-2017.png)
Ahead of International Women’s Day on Thursday, here’s the Glass Ceiling Index for OECD countries, ranking the best and worst countries for working women. Nordics win again. Britain at #25 – sigh.
Science reporter Ed Yong spent two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in experts he quotes in his stories (lot of his steps applicable to academics) h/t Chris Blattman
Dictionary-makers found the first known use of “mansplain”
‘From a study of 120 English hospital trusts over a four-year period, published in the journal Policy & Politics, we found that spending on external management consultants was associated with increased inefficiency.‘
Answers on grant proposals if non-profits were brutally honest with funders ht Chris Roche & Stephanie Lusby
A cracking idea for your future footnotes ht Paul Jackson
![This was once revealed to me in a dream](https://frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/revealed-in-a-dream-1024x245.jpg)
In civil wars, conflicts are more likely in weak states, but within those they are more likely to erupt where weak states exercise *more* control, not less. Interesting use of night-time light as proxy for state presence
Nearly 105,000 Haitians migrated to Chile last year — 1% percent of Haiti’s population.