ChildcareSandwich generationGenderHiringDespite rising legal claims, little research has examined discrimination against job applicants or employees because of their family caregiving responsibilities. Across t
In ecofeminist literature, ecofeminism is often described as the belief that environmentalism and feminism are intrinsically connected. Another definition suggests that discrimination and oppression based on gender, race and class are directly related to the exploitation and destruction of the environment. ...
Good. One of the issues we’ve been writing about is the challenge faced by working women, who put in the same hours as their male counterparts, and then have to dig into the second shift when they get home. But look again at the governor’s answer, then ask yourself this: Where ...
Being in the Academic Field: Neopatriarchy as Doxa Most of the women described academia as a site of deeply engrained gender bias, gender discrimination, and female subjugation. The experience of leadership was seen as shaped by taken-for-granted gendered patterns of masculine privilege, where the...
Additionally, offering affordable childcare options and promoting work-life balance, which can be costly, can help women stay in the workforce and advance their careers. We must also challenge societal norms and expectations perpetuating gender stereotypes and discrimination especially those that underva...
These include using tax funding to subsidize service provision in public health facilities and scaling up contributory health insurance through the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to cover all Kenyans [3]. However, a key challenge is the country's poverty rate of 36.1% as at 2015/2016...
Lively data thus offers a critical, political stance on engaging with data, helping to challenge the privileged epistemological status ascribed to particular forms of data in the pandemic, enabling more truthful understanding of COVID-19’s impacts and how people made sense of it. Such a stance ...
Engaging with recent theoretical moves toward gender-transformative and gender-just TVET programming, this paper explores how a gradual revisioning of TVET can be mobilised to challenge broader gender inequality and discrimination in precarious settings. Bringing together insights from feminist scholarship ...
[sought help]”. Thomas stated that young people from African backgrounds who have experienced migration or asylum seeking are likely to have other stressful or traumatic life experiences, including racism and discrimination. He needed an appropriately experienced or trained helper who could validate ...
The predominant type of discrimination was gender-related for women and race-related for men. These concerns are not unique to cardiology—they reflect the experience of women in other professional fields. Nevertheless, our working group wants to emphasize that perceptions (negative or positive) can...