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A Step Ahead and Two Behind – The Story of Chilean Women
2013 is election year in Chile. This November we will elect our new president – a female president. Yes! the presidential election is going to be fought between two very prominent politicians and both of them are women – Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet from the right wing alliance and Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria from […]
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Brazil’s economic clout: it’s the women’s turn!
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.
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New Horizons: Malian Women move beyond the Home
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 […]
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Egypt: Heaven or Hell for Syrian Refugees?
Out of the one and a half million Syrians living in Egypt, more than 300,000 have recently come here seeking a safe haven from the never ending shelling and bombing in their homeland. Thousands of Arabs, mostly Muslims, believed that Egypt is where they could start all over again and […]
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The Loneliness of Responsibility: Negotiating Womanhood in Sarajevo Today
Riding the subway in Chicago recently, I saw an advertisement for the popular American television show “Two and a Half Men.” The punch line of the ad was “men will be boys!” I’ve seen the show a few times (ironically, on TV in Croatia), and I’ve gathered that the protagonist […]