Gender Policies

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.

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.

The cambodian artist Buth Chan Anochea in a Radio Feature about her paintings on the exhibition “Hey sister, where are you going?” where ten female artists present their masterpieces, which express women in society. 

For more than 25 years, Mu Sochua has worked tirelessly for women's issues in Cambodia. In her time as Minister for Women's and Veterans Affairs, the first bill was on combating domestic violence. Aing Sokroeun Chim and Linna have talked to her about the meaning of Women's Day and the situation of women in Cambodia.

Gender roles and gender statuses of women were often changed in the past 100 years in Russia. But they all formed and form the present's image. How this image looks like describes the report of the Moscow office of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation.

A portrait of the women's NGO "For Feminism" from Moscow. The patriarchal model, problems and methods of resolution of the NGO.

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

The "Georgian woman " is a joint product of the earth and the sky, and that makes her unique compared to every other woman in the world. She is a moral project, which is different from all other existing biological-psychological projects. In her essay, the author describes the four possible roles of women in the present Georgian society.