Gender Awareness at the Universities in Tbilisi: Gender Essay Contest In order to strenghen the awareness of young people, to support the developement in the context of gender equality, the South Caucasus Office of the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation started an essay contest at several centres of university education. By Khatuna Samnidze
EMILY’s List: Yeast for the Political Rise of Progressive Women Candidates Over the past 25 years, EMILY’s List, the first American political action committee devoted to helping progressive women gain electoral offices in the United States, has changed the gender dynamics of American politics. But more remains to be done. By Liane Schalatek
“Our mission is not accomplished yet" Wanda Nowicka, a Head of the Federation on Women and Family Planning, in a Interview on pregnancy abortion in Poland, why the Polish Government restricted abortions and why Polish didn't resist and which follow-up this policy had. By Wanda Nowicka
"Mom has rights" Sylwia Chutnik, a polish feminist writer, explains in this interview why polish feminists started to get involved with the topic of motherhood, what it means to be a mother in Poland, she discusses the problems connected with the existing images of motherhood extremes in poland and how the situation changed in the last 20 years. By Sylwia Chutnik
100 Years of International Women’s Day: Gender, Leadership and American Foreign Policy 100 years ago the emergence of International Women’s day, and its importance in the political history of the time, reflected women’s determination to gain rights for themselves. But how is the situation of women today? Heather Hurlburt on women and politics in the United States of America. And the question of whether women make a difference.
Facts and Figures about International Women's Day in the USA About Women Rights Activists/Groups, Women in US Political decision-making bodies in the US, First Women on the national level, Legislative Efforts for Women and Economics facts on Women in the US. By Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Washington DC
A Mixed Message for American Women from the “Mancession” Did the great recession of 2007-2009 hit women in the United States less than men? Was the recession really a “Mancession” as some claimed? Hardly. In light of persisting gender disparities in pay, poverty rate, with respect to unpaid household work, and gender-based occupational segregation of the workforce in the United States, for many American women the worst is not over yet. By Liane Schalatek
Videointerview: Tajana Broz, member of the women's oganization CESI (Center for Education, Counseling and Research) Tajana Brotz, member of CESI, about March 8th in Croatia: memories, the weight of March 8th, the activities by CESI and about political participation of women in decision-making bodies.
Activists from the initiative group For Feminism (Moscow) A portrait of the women's NGO "For Feminism" from Moscow. The patriarchal model, problems and methods of resolution of the NGO. By Natasha Bitten, Yelena Maksimova and Vera Akulova
Only socialism will guarantee true equality for women The ideas of the women's movement in the Soviet Union of the 20th century keep on living but they aren't implemented yet in the Russian Federation. A survey of "Putin's Russia" and an appeal by the member in parliament of the communist party By Nina Ostanina