The Covid-19 pandemic has put significant challenges to issues of political stability in democracies worldwide. Despite considerable efforts from some European countries, there are substantial concerns about rising gender inequality paired with a decline in… [Read more]
This year’s 20th presidential election in South Korea was the closest in its history. It was also the first time that surveys were conducted by differentiating the vote of women and men according to their… [Read more]
At 23.3 percent, India has the lowest female labour force participation rate in South Asia and among BRICS countries. The gig economy, as experts and researchers have claimed, offers an opportunity for female workers to… [Read more]
“Disasters amplify the inequalities of the world we live in” , says Mami Mizutori, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Covid-19 pandemic has clawed back at decades of… [Read more]
In 1930, writer and physician Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński referred to Poland as “Women’s Hell” in his titular essay, criticizing the country’s harsh laws when it came to women’s access to contraception and abortion. Ninety years have… [Read more]
Covid-19 has indiscriminately shed light on the most vulnerable, undervalued, and underpaid of our society: migrant women working in the care sector. A new regime of inequality is observed at home, one between women –… [Read more]
Having more than one aspect to your identity, means that you can be discriminated in more than one way at the same time. That’s what Intersectional theory seeks to tackle. At the recent Cracking the… [Read more]
Women tend to disproportionately fall victim to exploitative and dangerous work conditions but regulatory attempts to hold businesses accountable for such abuses neglect to properly account for their different experiences. Pernilla Söderberg explains how the… [Read more]
When it comes to families, the primary caregiver model still dominates policy in Austria. A comprehensive review of in-cash, in-time and in-kind benefits is urgently needed to raise women’s labour market participation, argues Alisa Trojansky.… [Read more]
As part of our #WebDataMining Series, MPP student Donata Schilling uses PageRank analysis to question whether the political representation of women in Parliaments actually leads to political equality. Let’s try a straightforward exercise. Name a prominent female politician that is… [Read more]