Women and Gender

5 Minutes

Women and Gender

IWD 2021: Unite for a People’s Recovery from COVID and gender oppression!

PV March 5, 2021

COVID-19 has stripped away the veneer of capitalism, leaving bare the stark inequalities based on gender, racialization and ability. According to the United Nations, women are the majority of workers […]...

3 Minutes

Women and Gender World

Argentinian women: “We will never go back underground!”

PV January 5, 2021

Legal, safe and free abortion is law in Argentina, after the Senate assented to a pivotal struggle for the country’s feminist movement. Now the fight will continue for its effective […]...

4 Minutes

Women and Gender

Thirty-one years after Montreal, reflecting on culturally sanctioned misogyny

PV December 5, 2020

On December 6, 1989, a male student shot and killed 14 women – 13 engineering students and one clerical worker – at the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. Fourteen other […]...

4 Minutes

Women and Gender

Massive wave of protests hits Poland, to defend abortion rights

PV November 17, 2020

The Constitutional Court’s ruling, that abortion of terminally ill fetuses is unconstitutional, has sparked a nationwide outrage and a wave of protests that has terrified the authorities. Thousands of people […]...