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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  […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“I know it’s sinful, but sometimes I feel like committing suicide” are the words of a 66 years old woman I went to interview for this article in Skopje, Macedonia. Mona* suffers from hyperlipidaemia, heart problems, bronchitis and chronic sickness of the uterus. She has no way of paying for […]