La femme-cours et conférences-Edith Stein et Marie-Dominique Richard

La femme-cours et conférences-Edith Stein et Marie-Dominique Richard

Edith Stein traite ce sujet en tenant compte des nombreux problèmes qui se posaient alors et en s’attachant particulièrement à la question de l’éducation féminine, car son activité d’enseignant le lui avait permis de mesurer à quel point celle-ci s’accordait peu avec la spécificité féminine. Cela la conduisit à mettre en évidence le fait qu'”aucune femme n’est uniquement femme, mais que chacune a sa spécificité et sa disposition individuelles au même titre que l’homme

People, Care and Work in the Home

People, Care and Work in the Home

The changing demographics of our modern society have inevitably impacted the dynamics and relationships within the home from being personal and private to that of multiple work relationships; domestic work, care for older people, or supporting people with special needs. Whilst the home is a concept universally experienced, permeating every aspect of our lives, it remains an entity whose influence on health and wellbeing is poorly understood.

Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development

Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development

Women often find themselves strongly disadvantaged in the field of software development, in particular when it comes to open source. In a study recently published in EPJ Data Science, Orsolya Vasarhelyi and Balazs Vedres argue that this disadvantage stems from gendered behavior rather than categorical discrimination: women are at a disadvantage because of what they do, rather than because of who they are.

From Victims to Actors: Women’s Inclusion in the Energy Transition

From Victims to Actors: Women’s Inclusion in the Energy Transition

Flora wrote a paper on the gender-energy-poverty nexus. She argued that the energy transition can reduce poverty under the conditions that women are recognised as the main victims of both lack of energy access and poverty, that women are encouraged to be active actors of the energy transition, and that the wider complexities of the social and political contexts are taken into consideration. She took the concrete example of the Barefoot College to illustrate her point that women are agents of change.