Tag: gender equality

Empowering Women
Liisa Emilia Sorainen

The Monster Was Never Under the Bed: Gender-Based Violence as a Structure of Power

For generations, we have taught children to fear monsters under the bed, imagining creatures that hide in darkness, wait in closets, ready to emerge at night. But the statistics tell a different story. The danger is not imaginary nor confined to shadows, and it is rarely a stranger.

Gender Equality
Jesamine Rikisahedew

Why Estonia’s Progress on the Pay Gap Still Falls Short

Estonia’s pay gap has been hanging around for years. Depending on the method of measuring it, women earn somewhere between 13 to 18 percent less than men. That’s not a tiny difference you can brush off as coincidence. It adds up over time, affecting savings, pensions, and overall financial independence.

Empowering Women
Ieva Zariņa

Beauty and Charming: A Woman’s Natural Place

‘Nature’ has often been, historically, invoked to justify mistreatment of women. Whether it has been ‘a woman’s nature’ or ‘the natural role of a woman’, curiously, more often than not,

IWNE
Diversity and Integration
Chiara Carucci

Shaping Nightscapes: Lighting Design for Inclusion and Sustainability

Lighting surrounds us, yet one rarely thinks about it—until something changes. Imagine a woman walking home late at night. A streetlight flickers and dies, plunging her path into shadow and leaving her with a sinking sense of vulnerability. Or picture a child gazing at a monument, its lights revealing hidden stories and sparking quiet wonder. Lighting shapes how we feel—fearful or safe, indifferent or inspired—proving it’s so much more than a backdrop to our lives.

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Gender Equality
Palina Yaroshyk

Alexa, Why Are You Not Alexandro? Reinforcing Cognitive Biases Through Technology

This essay uses a post-phenomenological approach based on I-technology-world relations to analyse gender biases in technologies. The focus of this work is on feminised personal assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Cortana. These systems, designed to mimic human interaction, often reinforce stereotypes by associating femininity with obedience and care.  This perpetuation of stereotypes poses a dual problem: it reinforces existing biases in human cognition and contributes to their normalisation through daily technological interactions.

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Diversity and Integration
Sümeyye Temirov​

Behind the Lens of GENARRATION: the Journey of Layla and Asyah in Digital Storytelling and Advocacy

In a highly digitised world, everything is unfolding in front of our eyes. Digital media transcends borders and shapes our perceptions. It makes us witnesses of everything happening cross-borders. Despite the information pollution in digital media, the truth echoes louder. We all are the witnesses of the truth: the erasure of Palestinian identity, restrictions on movement, expression, and basic rights under Israel’s unlawful occupation. GENARRATION becomes a voice to the harsh realities of life in Jerusalem. This project empowers the young Palestinians to share their lived experiences on their own terms and to exhibit resilience under occupation.

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