Many international organizations denounce that the systematic lockout of women from social and political power is responsible for the phenomenon of double/multiple discrimination, so that in every social category, the status of women is always the lowest. This severe injustice is at the core of the situation of violence which still remains in the…

  New board elected at the Spring Conference in Barcelona Congratulations to the new board! Aino-Maija Hiltunen, Coordinator at the University of Helsinki, Finland. (re-elected) Sveva Magaraggia, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Rome III, Italy. (re-elected) Soledad Bravo, Policy maker, Barcelona Provincial Government, Francesca Bonnemaison Centre, Barcelona, Spain. Dasa Duhacek, Professor…

  Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives: The Power of Information was conceived of as a pedagogical tool, aimed at stimulating gender studies teachers to critically reflect, together with their students, on libraries and archives as profoundly gendered knowledge spaces. Whilst feminist standpoint theory with its recognition that knowledge always emanates from and is produced within…

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    Teaching “Race” with a Gendered Edge responds to the need to approach the idea of race from a feminist perspective. This collection of essays aims to broaden our understanding of both race and gender by highlighting the intersections and intertwinedness of race, gender, and other axes of inequality. The book also points to…

“What actions should be taken at EU level to further strengthen the role of women in science and innovation?” If you want to read more read the Manifesto here and sign it in order to focus attention on twenty-five years of research demonstrating how gender impacts the quality of research and innovation.

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Please read the following for the two calls on signing the Open Letter. Also see the Open Letter website. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Dear colleagues, With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation (http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/), alerting her to the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences…

An all too sudden death. Nordic Gender Institute (NIKK) will be dismantled before the end of 2011 We are sad and worried to announce that NIKK, the Nordic Gender Institute, is going to be dismantled before December 31st 2011. Since 1995, NIKK has been an important professional organization in the field of Nordic, European and…