by yourterm | Mar 17, 2020 | YourTerm FEM
This week we have chosen “CEDAW – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women” since today it is the International Women’s Day. This event reminds us of the remarkable goals achieved by women in the last century and their current...
by yourterm | Mar 17, 2020 | YourTerm FEM
Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and advancement of all women in the world — such powerful and important concepts of today. But do you know whom we should thank for the opportunity to celebrate the recent promotion of women’s rights? It is due to the Beijing...
by yourterm | Mar 17, 2020 | YourTerm FEM
Last week, during the plenary debate on Monday 13 of January, the European Parliament called again for more action to narrow the gender pay gap. This issue was introduced in the Treaty of Rome in 1957, when the equal pay for equal work principle was voted. Although,...
by yourterm | Mar 17, 2020 | YourTerm FEM
The inspiration for this article came from a colleague and friend of mine who works at the Irish Language Unit of the European Parliament, whose obsession for etymology has soon infected me too. Starting with the Irish I set out to collect the etymologies of the word...
by yourterm | Mar 17, 2020 | YourTerm FEM
One in three women in the European Union has suffered a form of gender-based violence (FRA 2014). The Speak for Support (SOS-VICS) project, led by the University of Vigo, Spain, was a project cofunded by DG Justice to research how to improve communication between...
