The Other Half

The Other Half

The Other Half is a new centre of research for practical, workable policy in the interests of women. They explore policy options that work for women. They will spur mainstream political thinking which builds women’s interests in from the start, considers whole system change, and properly represents the richness and reality of modern life.

The Challenge of being a Woman Today: how to meet it

The Challenge of being a Woman Today: how to meet it

The challenge of being a woman in the 21st century is the challenge of being oneself. To do so, it is necessary to recover and rediscover the essence of femininity. The question of what it means to be a woman today precedes the question of the challenges that such a condition entails. In turn, when a woman asks herself what the essence of being a woman is, she is asking herself about her own identity.

A medicalized society

A medicalized society

It is life, not a disease. This slogan appears on the posters of a successful and relevant awareness campaign of the Regional Government of Extremadura, which aims to alert the population about the medicalization of situations and states that are not a disease, and that can and should be solved with will, advice and mental and emotional hygiene. Medicalization has led to normal life circumstances and events being identified as pathological and treated with medication.