Gender Equality

Increased Gender Inequality in Arab Labour Markets due to COVID-19: Causes and Solutions

Increased Gender Inequality in Arab Labour Markets due to COVID-19: Causes and Solutions

Although women have proven themselves in many fields of work, to this day, gender stereotyping against women is very common in Arab society.

 7 October 2020
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La educación y el conocimiento como armas

A pesar de las influencias políticas e ideológicas que actúan como barreras reales, el acceso de las mujeres a la educación superior está teniendo efectos en numerosos estratos sociales

 3 April 2023
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Breaking Barriers: the Feminist Transformation in the Mediterranean

Coinciding with International Women's Day, the IEMed and Casa Mediterráneo are organizing a seminar in which the latest issue of Quaderns de la Mediterrània will also be presented.

 8 March 2023

Les femmes du Liban rompent leur silence en créant, en invitant, en innovant ou… en partant

La poétesse libanaise Nadia Tuéni (1935-1983) a inspiré les femmes libanaises d’aujourd’hui à prendre leur vie en main et à affronter la société de leur pays, dominée par le patriarcat, et à reconquérir des espaces qui, jusqu’à prés...

 22 September 2022

Entretien avec Fedwa Misk, autrice, journaliste et militante féministe marocaine

Entretien avec Fedwa Misk, autrice, journaliste et militante féministe marocaine, par Giulia Maria Ferraresi.

 22 September 2022

Adile Sultan, A Mystical and Rebellious Ottoman Princess

The work of the mystical poetess Adile Sultan is also very important in this context because it helped Turkish women to begin questioning the prohibitions imposed on them, as well as to progress in the development of their personal life strategies.

 22 September 2022

Women of Art: A Long-Distance Run of Endless Stages

Women artists in the southern shore of the Mediterranean, due to the specific realities of their countries, have also had to deal with cultural neo-colonialism in a general context in which the achievements of the last fifty years are threatened.

 22 September 2022

Judith Butler, Catalonia International Prize 2021

On 27 April 2022, the American philosopher Judith Butler received the Catalonia International Prize for her contributions in the field of non-violence.

 22 September 2022

The Decade of the Female Filmmakers of the Arab Uprisings

Filmmakers such as the Lebanese Nadine Labaki, the Tunisians Kaouther Ben Hania and Hinde Boujemaa or the Algerian Mounia Meddour have brought universal and current stories to the screen, defying the strict socio-political norms that govern the Arab...

 22 September 2022

Networking to Change Mentalities

There is a well-known imbalance between the academic training of women and their presence in the business world as entrepreneurs. In general, businesswomen consider that they have enough skills to carry forward their own enterprise but they usually f...

 21 September 2022

Le mouvement du féminisme islamique au Maroc : nouvelles voies vers une déconstruction de l’archaïsme des représentations socioculturelles

Depuis de nombreuses années, le féminisme musulman livre un combat contre l’oppression sexiste et dans de nombreux cas, comme celui du Maroc, cette lutte est née dans un contexte de colonisation, au sein des mouvements nationalistes et contestat...

 21 September 2022

Gender and Youth Emancipation: Silent Strategies for Social Change in the MENA Region

Ten years after the revolutionary movements that shook the MENA region, the young women of these countries have become the spearhead of the transformations that affect the immovable foundations of their societies: adult-centrism and patriarchalism.

 21 September 2022

Muslim Women: Strangers by Nature?

Given that the fight for equality between men and women goes beyond any religion, politics or culture, governments should focus on taking egalitarian legal measures and enable access to education for women, who will have greater capacity to choose fr...

 21 September 2022