At the end of last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. In light of this decision, we invited Anushka and Tasha Agarwal to share excerpts from their research on experiences of accessing education for Afghan refugee women who resettled …
Yemeni artist and IASH/IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellow Shatha Altowai discusses her experiences of creating art as a woman in Yemen, as well as the common Yemeni practice of obscuring women’s faces in photographs. This piece by GENDER.ED student intern Shy Zvouloun is in advance of the artist’s second exhibition in Scotland: ‘Scratched Identities’.
GENDER.ED is looking for applications for our summer internship 2021. Our 2020 communication intern Iz Gius talks here about her experiences last Summer.
Award winning feminist academic Jackie Gulland tells us about her book – a history of disability benefits and their gendered effects. What might the lessons of the past mean today including in the context of COVD?.
This blog post first appeared on ‘On the Engender,’ the blog of Scotland’s Feminist and Policy Advocacy Organisation. Claire Duncanson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, researcher on a project called The Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace, and a member of GENDER.ED’s steering group. Engender and Close the Gap’s new …
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