women – PROSPECT

Rising Up and Reinventing the Playing-Field: Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Disparity Against Women in Honduras

Honduras currently holds one of the highest incidences of femicide and continues to perpetuate norms that result in unacceptable violence against women. Understanding the main sources that contribute towards such violence and likely avenues for rectification are therefore paramount to addressing the issue.

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February 8, 2021

ACADEMIC, CULTURE, EDUCATION, FEATURED, gender, HEALTH, HISTORY, HUMAN RIGHTS, LATIN AMERICA, POLITICS, women

Central America, Featured, Honduras, Human RIghts, immigration policy, south america, united nations, WHO, women, women’s health, women’s rights

Blockchain: An Unlikely Advocate for Women

Despite global actions to reduce sexism, women are still seen as legally inferior in many countries. Can technology help combat this social injustice?

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April 15, 2020

CULTURE, ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, POLITICS, technology, women

FINANCE, tech solutions, technology, women, women’s rights

THE CULTURAL IMPEDIMENTS TO ABE’S “WOMENOMICS”

Staff Writer Andrew Muse-Fisher discusses the cultural and economic factors that make increasing the role of women in the Japanese workforce an uphill climb.

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December 5, 2014

ASIA-PACIFIC, CULTURE, ECONOMICS, HUMAN RIGHTS, POLITICS

Abenomics, Akie Abe, child care, Education, employment, equal pay, inequality, Japan, Shinzo Abe, women, women’s rights, World Assembly for Women