Synchronized Swimmers Do you remember Caster Semenya – winner of the World Championship 800m gold medal in 2009? The International Olympics Committee …
Synchronized Swimmers Do you remember Caster Semenya – winner of the World Championship 800m gold medal in 2009? The International Olympics Committee …
Olympics Will the 2012 Olympics be remembered as having provided a platform for women’s rights and gender equality. – amongst all the …
Honour Killing The recent killing of Shafilea Ahmed by her parents has put the issues of honour killing and multi-culturalism in the …
Peace not War A call to have more women taking part in peace-making missions, in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1325 …
Quotas Interestingly enough this comes at the same time as the European Commission postponed its own proposal that would oblige companies to …
Titanic Will the Titanic provide equality & diversity experts with much-needed new case-studies for training on ‘intersectionality’ – roughly to be translated …
Childbirth We can say that the ability to conceive and bear children is the last frontier of gender equality; it is possibly …
UK Slips It can of course be argued that the actual numbers of men and of women in political decision-making do not …
DSK The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) which is spearheading this renewed initiative (http://www.womenlobby.org/spip.php?article4084&lang=en) takes as inspiration going forward the ‘Swedish model’. The …