Nǚ, Gender and Excellence

A spotlight to interesting women doing interesting things, An insight into the most pressing issues regarding gender and excellence told, among others, through UE projects on the matter, European ongoing innovative projects of every kind told by the women involved and, last but not least A box of pills on the -not too well- known cases of women researchers who led projects or invented things for which, in the end, their male colleagues were awarded.
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April 21, 2011“Being a macho kills” Sociologist, Oscar Guasch teaches sexual criminology and Sociology of Sexuality at the University of Barcelona. His activity articulates around the identification and reconstruction of the discourses and practices of ‘power’, the origins and political uses of heterosexuality, the social consequences of AIDS and the masculine identities and homophobia, among others. At present he is carrying [...]
April 15, 2011On gender, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development “Gender equality in DRR does not mean merely addressing women’s issues – it means addressing concerns of both men and women, the relations between them and the root causes of gender imbalances” Since 2005 Feng Min Kan (China) has been the Senior Coordinator for the Advocacy and Outreach Coordination Unit within the UNISDR (United National International Strategy for [...]
April 01, 2011Meet Mauro Cabral Argentinian historian and philosopher and trans and intersex activist. Mauro Cabral is co-director of GATE (Global Action for Trans Equality) and member of the Latin American Consortium on Intersex Issues (Consorcio Latinoamericano de Trabajo sobre Intersexualidad). Statistically, situations related to intersexuality have place in one over 2,500 births. Every time a child whose sexual and [...]
On sexual and reproductive rights, Meet Jacqueline Sharpe Jacqueline Sharpe is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist from Trinidad and Tobago and the president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights working in 150 countries. Its areas of action include abortion, access, adolescents, advocacy and AIDS/HIV. Although [...]
AIDS treatment in and out of gender PART TWO “It is known that after acute HIV infection women present with higher CD4 counts and lower viral loads than men.  We were interested in looking at whether this difference influenced clinical outcomes.  It is debatable whether these sex differences confer clinical benefits and we hypothesized that they would”, says Elizabeth Connick. She works at [...]
Meet Maria Lai “We exist in as much as the others interpret us” In spite of having always been in poor health Maria Lai, at almost one hundred years of age, keeps writing and producing works of art. When I get to the house in the heart of Sardinia where she lives with her sister, I have a very high [...]
Between sexuality, gender and rights: A story from Sub-Saharan Africa Both the majority of worlwide countries  (38 out of 76) criminalizing same-sex sexual activities and the one with the first constitution in the world to explicitly prohibit unfair discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (South Africa) belong to the African continent. Last month the first ever African Same Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity (ASSGD) conference [...]
February 17, 2011AIDS treatment in an out of gender A dendritic cell PART ONE Although the decrease is not sufficient, the first therapeutic AIDS vaccine, designed from the dendritic cells of the actual patients by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona-IDIBAPS in the framework of the HIVACAT, the catalan programme for the development of therapeutic vaccines and prevention against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), has achieved a [...]
February 08, 2011Gender inequality, a HIV social driver Worldwide fewer people are becoming infected from HIV and fewer are dying from AIDS. Deaths among children younger than 15 years of age are also declining. What remains is discrimination and lack of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. Two thirds of the 15 million people who would need treatment do not [...]
February 02, 2011The invisible barriers At the end of 2010 the European Union officially ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, becoming the first intergovernmental group to sign on to an international human rights treaty. According to the Convention, which entered into force on January 22, 2011 persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, [...]
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Elena LeddaElena LeddaElena Ledda is a freelance journalist with a Foreign Languages (Spanish and Chinese) University Degree who’s been living for almost four years in Barcelona, where she moved to study a Master Degree in Journalism at BCNY and is now collaborating with both Italian and Spanish newspapers and magazines.