{"id":2933,"date":"2025-08-25T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=2933"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:36:38","slug":"opinion-women-only-spaces-may-have-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/opinion-women-only-spaces-may-have-unintended-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Women-only spaces may have unintended consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a02015 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/programs\/new-voices-fellowship\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Voices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and\u00a0 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/programs\/advanced-advocacy-program\/\">Advanced Advocacy<\/a> Fellow <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/elsamarie-dsilva\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ElsaMarie D&#8217;Silva<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Founder of the Red Dot Foundation (India) and President of Red Dot Foundation Global (USA) recently wrote about the double-edged sword presented by public areas designated for women only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has also been selected as an<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/centre-for-protecting-women-online_cpwo-protectingwomenonline-womensonlinesafety-activity-7345685293536075777-0yw8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Visiting Fellow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Centre for Protecting Women Online at The Open University. The Centre, which received a \u00a37.7 million grant from Research England, is dedicated to understanding and addressing challenges to women and girls&#8217; safety online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read her op-ed below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":583,"template":"","publication_category":[43,49],"publication_theme":[164,66],"class_list":["post-2933","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","featured-featured-bottom","publication_category-announcements","publication_category-oped","publication_theme-safety","publication_theme-women-and-girls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}