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Caring and coping: old age carers move in as families move out
Written by Daniel Vekony
This article was written in collaboration with my fellow FutureChallenges author Anikó Mészáros who was of great help in finding the interviewees for this piece. As mobility has increased in Europe, women from poor social backgrounds in Central Europe have hit the road to find the work in Western Europe […]
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#TTIP: Arbeitsplätze sind wichtige Argumente – Partizipation, Transparenz und Verbraucherschutz aber auch
Written by Ole Wintermann
Im Rahmen unserer Kooperation mit dem Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory unter der Überschrift “Internet und Globalisierung” hatten wir letzte Woche die Möglichkeit, den britischen Journalisten Glyn Moody als Keynote-Speaker und weitere interessante Teilnehmer bei unserer Panel-Diskussion in der Heinrich Böll Stiftung begrüßen zu können. Hierbei wurde deutlich, und entsprechende Berichte […]
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Measuring Meatloaves? The Untapped Potential of University Women in Italy
Written by Chiara Di Gaetano
“What will future scholars see when they study us to create a portrait of women today? There you are ladies: the perfect likeness of a Wellesley graduate, Magna Cum Laude, doing exactly what she was trained to do. (Slide – a Rhodes Scholar), I wonder if she recites Chaucer while […]
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Ending coziness: A new status for domestic workers in Brazil
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
A nation essentially dedicated to agriculture for so long has to face some serious challenges when modernization touches rural areas and expels the people who live there. “The city is, more than ever, a poverty pole”, says Milton Santos, a Brazilian geographer in “A Urbanização Brasileira”(“Urbanization in Brazil”), a place whose […]
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Empoderamiento femenino en Bolivia: Una deuda pendiente
Written by Diego Salama
Abstract: Women in Bolivia have been isolated from public life for over 120 years. It was only in the middle of the 20th century when the situation began to change and women were given a bigger say in Bolivian affairs. Over the past decades there has been significant milestones and it […]
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The UK’s Cancerous Poverty Crisis
Written by Guy Sephton
The gap between the rich and the poor in the UK is just as big an issue as ever. Today though, this gulf is presenting new problems in the form of one of Britain’s biggest killers in recent years: breast cancer. Since the 1970s, the disease has developed from affecting relatively […]
