The Women's Atlas, German edition

Hanser: “You have authored The Women’s Atlas since 1987 to great international acclaim. What are the longterm developments that strike you?

Joni: “I would say two main areas of change:
• feminist organizing has become more globally connected, which means there’s a lot more cross-national and cross-coalition lesson learning going on. This is particularly apparent around organizing against violence against women.
• the gender gap across all economic domains is becoming more visible and difficult for entrenched interests to sweep under the rug; this is true across the economic board, from increasing awareness of the gender gap in pay (which now needs to be accounted for and is made illegal in several countries) to an understanding that women’s labour, both paid and unpaid, is the backbone of most economies

Hanser interview Joni Seager to mark the publication of The Women’s Atlas in German. To see all available editions head HERE.

The world from a female perspective: Joni Seager interview with Il Libraio

‘This project is not just an atlas on women: it is a remapping of the world that takes women seriously. And regarding this, Seager declares: “For me, feminism means giving the lives of women the same attention, curiosity and analysis that men’s routines receive . The ordinary lives of women and men seem to have much in common, and sometimes they do; but the truth is that the way in which relationships are formed, earn a living and ensure autonomy varies significantly between women and men, as well as between women themselves at the intersectional level.” 

Il Libraio interview Joni Seager to mark the release of The Women’s Atlas in Italian. Read the interview in full HERE, and head to The Women’s Atlas Myriad page to browse through the various editions now available.

The Women's Atlas: For the Stats Nerd

Reading Women chose The Women’s Atlas by Joni Seager as the best book to gift stats nerds…

‘The Women’s Atlas by Joni Seager is the PERFECT gift for anyone in your life that loves all things stats, charts, and graphs. Each page features information on women from all across the world, formatted in a way that’s easy to understand. As a huge stats/graphs nerd myself (but who is also not scientifically inclined), I enjoyed looking through this book and sharing endless “Did you knows?” with my friends and family.’

Picks by The Vim

The Vim online magazine picked The Women’s Atlas as one of the next 17 female-authored titles they’ll be reading next.

Joni Seager

Joni Seager is a feminist geographer and Professor of Global Studies at Bentley University in Boston. She has achieved international acclaim for her work in feminist environmental policy analysis, the environmental costs of militaries and militarism, and gender and climate change.

Seager is the author of many books, including five editions of the award-winning feminist classic The Women’s Atlas, two editions of The State of the Environment Atlas, and Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis.

She has been an active consultant with the United Nations on several gender and environmental policy projects, including consulting with the United Nations Environmental Programme on integrating gender perspectives into their work on disasters and early warning systems, and with UNESCO and the Division on Economic and Social Affairs on gender in water policy.