Tag: Equality
The History of Equality: It’s Complicated
Books abound these days on the subject of inequality, spanning categories such as race, class, and nationality. But what is “equality” in the first place? What does it mean, and for whom? Darrin McMahon’s new book, Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, sets out to answer these questions by providing a truly global intellectual history of equality from the dawn of humanity until today. In doing so, McMahon, a professor of history at Dartmouth College, argues that ideas … Read more
Is Italy’s Meloni failing to deliver for women? – POLITICO
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ROME — At the end of NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius in July, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wound up her press conference abruptly. It had nothing to do with the reporters’ questions, she said: her high heels were killing her.
A complaint of that kind at such a hothouse of masculine energy as a NATO summit would have been unimaginable for a previous generation of female leaders, who
Ex-MEP baffled over ‘cushy’ 43K equality guru position in Falkland Islands | UK | News
A former MEP for the Brexit Party has expressed disbelief at a job vacancy that has opened up in the Falkland Islands after initially mistaking the news for an April Fools’ joke.
This British Overseas Territory, in the South Atlantic, is home to just 3,662 people, a number that is tiny in comparison to the 500,000 sheep and approximately one million penguins that inhabit the area.
The chosen job seeker will need to travel 8,000 miles to reach the remote
Ursula von der Leyen’s going on vacation. Who’s she leaving in charge of the EU? – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — It’s officially August, which means the last Eurocrats are heading out of town to their favorite summer retreats, and most of Brussels is “out of office.”
But a few commissioners have the questionable honor of being on the summer roster, staying behind as the person on duty should an emergency arise. Former Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker introduced the system in 2017 to show that the EU never
Belgium’s trans-friendly reputation faces far-right rise – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Belgium has built a reputation as among the most progressive EU countries on trans rights.
For the past five years, people there can legally change their gender and name without medical certification. Its current government includes a transgender politician in a leading position.
And, just recently, the city of Ghent in Belgium’s northern Flanders region polished those progressive credentials by granting city officials a month of leave
How Spain went woke — and why that may not last – POLITICO
CARLA ANTONELLI REMEMBERS when being gay in Spain could get you sent to a work camp.
Under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, the LGBTQ+ community was harshly persecuted by authorities and forced to live in the shadows, recalled Antonelli, a 63-year old actress, activist, politician and transgender woman. Even after the dictator’s death in 1975, she would “routinely be arrested and beaten by police.”
“They’d smash my face against the wall until I lay in a puddle of my own blood, and
A Parliament of bullies – POLITICO
EU authorities have repeatedly failed to protect victims of bullying by powerful politicians, amid a culture of indifference toward harassment within the European Parliament, a major POLITICO investigation reveals.
A picture built up over four months, based on dozens of interviews and confidential documents, showed a system in crisis that has left junior staffers scarred by years of abuse.
Witnesses and victims, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly, described feeling “physically and mentally dead” or even suicidal as a
Meet the new-look team in 10 Downing Street – POLITICO
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LONDON — It’s not just the Cabinet that’s had a clear-out now that Liz Truss is running Britain.
A phalanx of fresh faces have arrived in No. 10 Downing Street to strategize for and advise the new prime minister as she seeks to navigate her way through a turbulent winter and toward a difficult-looking 2024 general election. Only a small handful of Boris Johnson-era aides have survived the cull.
“She clearly prizes loyalty
Greta Thunberg doesn’t want you to talk about her anymore – POLITICO
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Greta Thunberg’s childhood ended during the pandemic.
Just a few months before the arrival of the coronavirus, the Swedish teenager and her fellow activists had organized a march of millions — possibly the largest climate protest in history. But lockdowns put an end to the boisterous Fridays For Future school strikes, which Thunberg had pioneered and spread around the world. With entire countries in isolation, Thunberg’s movement was “paralyzed,” recalled Dominika Lasota, one
What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality?
Working women are at a crossroads. While they earned 82 percent of what men did in 2018, at the end of that year they made up half the paid workforce. “Women are not just working,” Claudia Goldin states in her new book, Career and Family. “They have meaningful careers that many manage, or intend, to combine with a family in an equitable marriage…. In all of world history, this has never happened before.”
Yet despite