How the new EU gender strategy fails east-central European women
The coronavirus epidemic exposes the care crisis and underlying class and regional inequalities—which the new strategy does not equip us to handle.
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The coronavirus epidemic exposes the care crisis and underlying class and regional inequalities—which the new strategy does not equip us to handle.

by Karin Pettersson on
Karin Pettersson writes that the pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system.

by Joseph Stiglitz on
For 40 years, US Republicans have been insisting that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem’. The bankruptcy of this has been laid bare.

by Albena Azmanova on
The challenges of social and environmental injustice are as intense as ever. But which social forces can act as the agents of change?

by Reiner Hoffmann on
Enterprises must address—and government more actively demand of them—their observance of human rights.

by Magdalena Sepúlveda on
Women’s strikes today draw attention to the need for global tax reform, so that investment in services can ease the burden of women’s domestic labour.

by Branko Milanovic on
Branko Milanovic writes that the coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience its daily stigmas.

by Bethany Staunton on
Migrant workers are by nature more diverse than the indigenous workers among whom they find themselves. Organising strategies need to be diverse too.

by Harvey Feigenbaum on
The US Republican Party has made an accommodation to Donald Trump its leaders may come to regret.

by Heinz Sünker on
Educational research models children as autonomous actors. Education policy, notably in Germany, still however aims to guide innate capacities into adulthood.

by Diane Coyle on
As a critical resource that is unlike anything that came before it, big data demands a robust policy response.

Populist parties succeed if they mobilise disaffected constituencies. But they fail if they stimulate their opponents to go one better.
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