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Como o Estado violenta as meninas e mulheres

Apenas 42 hospitais realizam procedimento legal no Brasil, enquanto há 500 mil estupros por ano. Grupos religiosos propõem punitivismo — mas solucionar violência estruturante exigirá ensino de sexualidade e igualdade de gênero nas escolas. O caso de uma menina de … Continue reading

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Violência contra as mulheres: o passado ressoa no presente

Até aparentes avanços têm origens machistas: garantia ao aborto em caso de estupro, nos anos 40, era para proteger moral da família. O viés machista da Justiça precisa ser enfrentado. Um manifesto pelo direito à vida das mulheres. Neste 25 … Continue reading

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Girls, women, and intellectual empowerment

Women and intellectual disempowerment Though we may wish to think it otherwise, women and girls are still routinely silenced and excluded from positions of power, expertise, leadership, and full participation in the public sphere. Ample empirical evidence supports this claim. … Continue reading

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Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice

A wide range of issues besieges women globally, including economic exploitation, sexist oppression, racial, ethnic, and caste oppression, and cultural imperialism. This book builds a feminist social justice framework from practices of women’s activism in India to understand and work … Continue reading

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Academic couples, parenthood and women’s research careers

The paper focuses on dual-career academic couples, how they combine careers and parenthood and how their strategies translate into employment pathways of researchers, and especially women researchers. Based on sixteen in-depth interviews with dual-career academic couples, the analysis identified two … Continue reading

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The Flow: Educate. Empower. Change

Menstruation is often misrepresented, stigmatized, and ignored. A lack of education and distorted view of periods in society greatly impacts young menstruators as they begin to have periods and can have long-term negative effects on their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. In order … Continue reading

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Great Teams Need Social Intelligence, Equal Participation, and More Women

In sports, some people are famous for “making other players better.” Magic Johnson, the great basketball player and winner of five National Basketball Association championships, was not merely a terrific scorer, passer, and rebounder; he also transformed his teammates, some … Continue reading

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Authentic leadership: application to women leaders

The purpose of this perspective article is to present the argument that authentic leadership is a gendered representation of leadership. We first provide a brief history of leadership theories and definitions of authentic leadership. We then critique authentic leadership and … Continue reading

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

In 1884 Frederick Engels first published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. This work systematically set out to provide a social explanation for the emergence of women’s oppression with the development of the social institutions of … Continue reading

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Chess Grandmastery: Nature, Gender and Genius

In the late 1960s, a Hungarian teacher named László Polgár resolved to try an educational experiment. The author of a brassy parenting book called Bring Up Genius!, he sought to prove that, as one of his kids later put it, … Continue reading

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