Despite its crucial role within Europe's economy, there is currently no official data accurately describing domestic and care work, which is still heavily characterised by abuse and exploitation, especially towards women and migrants. A recent survey conducted by European labour organisations provides the first, truly thorough overview of care workers' conditions
While the pandemic has emphasised the crucial role of care work in industrialised societies, research tells us that it has become a global business, exploiting migrant women by depriving them of their rights and forcing them into unsustainable working conditions. An analysis from an important international debate at the University of Linz, Austria
In the last three months, protests broke out in Iranian cities and across the country. The nationwide uprising that is now ongoing has been called a women-led revolution
Starting from the latest news, Yasmine Ergas explains how the Texas Heartbeat Act creates a scorched earth around any woman who might attempt to, or has had, an abortion.
How women’s tissue and labour are bought and sold in modern biotechnology
Legislating on any matter and legislating specially on maternity and paternity at work needs a coherent work from the national legislators and these legislators as representatives of their people’s may not continue neither remaining silent and therefore not legislating at all on maternity and paternity protection at work, nor these national legislators may continue copying Labour Codes enacted by authorities from countries, cultures and economic realities completely opposite to their own countries.
Interview with Marinella Perroni, theologian. “What the carefully staged resignment of Benedict XVI has shown is that everything can change. But for change to actually happen, the Church would have to welcome the female point of view. Something that goes well beyond the ordination of women”.
Diana Strassmann discusses her work shifting economics from a discipline of neglect to one of care...
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Michelle Obama endorses Hillary Clinton in a speech at the democratic national convention
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For the first Women in Science Day GenPORT will release a series of video interviews with leading...
