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“Excuse me is your name Felicia?” I asked as I walked up to a young lady sitting at the entrance of the cramped workspace converted from a former shipping container. “No, Felicia is inside” she responded, pointing into the dimly lit box. “Hello Felicia, my name is Monica, we spoke […]

Abstract: 52.6 million people around the world work as domestic workers. 90% of them are women. 19.6 million are in Latin-America and the Caribbean. The lack of governmental regulations for these kind of workers has permitted that a high number of women, but also children and/or adolescents, live in conditions […]

Abstract: European migrations since the sixteenth century provoked a world wide movement of men, women, objects, fabrics, ideas, fashion. In colonial Bolivia indians were prohibited from using Spanish clothings in order to maintain the social order. However, in the eighteenth century women from indigenous descent but already mixed raced transformed […]

Brazil is a country in a great development and this sucess is linked with increase brazilian women participation in economic and political process. This is a brief report about these women’s force.

In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the home and working on the family farm. However, increasing internal and external economic pressures are pushing them to find alternative means of income to supplement their household needs and even to reach […]