A damsel in distress, a maid, the just being there to make the hero look good, a housewife, a lover, a woman who changes a bad man into a good...Read more

Throughout history, people, especially women, have tried to change their bodies to conform to the specific era’s image of beauty. For example, tightlacing was practised by western women to artificially...Read more

“Oh, you like this? How surprising…” “Ugh, that is typically something that women like” are most likely phrases that young women have heard before. Teenage girls are shamed for enjoying...Read more

In recent times, the hymn of many institutions has been more, more, we need more women in business, parliaments, and in power. Given the slow speed by which the number...Read more

For centuries, traditional beliefs on gender roles dictated what a woman’s life looked like. A woman’s life revolved around staying at home cooking, cleaning, and raising children. A man’s job...Read more

Over the past decades, empowerment has become a buzzword within the international development field in the same way as sustainability has. In the 1980s, the term ‘empowerment’ was coined by...Read more