The EU member state Hungary serves as an example for the so called demographic transition. Fortunately, Hungarian women have good chances of getting quality education and building their careers. In the meantime, however, the Hungarian population shrunk by about 2% over the last decade and the birth rates are still decreasing.
Combining the fight against climate change with the advancement of female participation, the new initiative “Women in Solar” sounds like a masterpiece in this respect. The initiative is aimed at engaging more women into roles within engineering and encourages female engineers to take up a career in the renewable energy sector. And to make the […]
Worldwide about 1 billion people are affected by some type of disability, according to estimations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank. The two international organisations released a 350-page report on living conditions of disabled people worldwide. The economic and societal situation for those 15% of the total population could be far […]
Almost 70 years after the liberation from the inhuman Nazi dictatorship, anti-Semitic beliefs and acts should have been eliminated from European societies as demons of darkest history. Unfortunately this turns out to be an all too optimistic wish. For the first time in EU history a cross-national survey of 5,850 Jews from eight countries was […]
Gleich mehrere gute Nachrichten in Sachen Chancengleichheit verkündete die scheidende Bundesfamilienministerin Kristina Schröder kürzlich im gängigen, selbstlobenden Duktus der Politik. Ihr Haus legte zum fünften Mal die ‚Bilanz Chancengleichheit’ vor und präsentierte einen Überblick der Fortschritte der letzten zwei Jahre, insbesondere in den Bereichen Bildung und Ausbildung, bei der Erleichterung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und […]
Als neuntes Bundesland nach Berlin, Hamburg, Brandenburg, Bremen und Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen und Baden-Württemberg ist Niedersachsen der „Koalition gegen Diskriminierung“ beigetreten. Niedersachsens Ministerpräsident Stephan Weil (SPD) unterzeichnete gemeinsam mit der Leiterin der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, Christine Lüders, die Absichtserklärung „Offensive für eine diskriminierungsfreie Gesellschaft“.
Fast genau zwei Jahre ist es her, dass eine kleine Gruppe von rechtsnationaler Terroristen aufflog, die über Jahre hinweg scheinbar wahllos acht türkische und einen griechischen Kleinunternehmer ermordet haben soll. Der ‚NSU-Prozess’ bringt extremen Fremdenhass in die Medien und macht es dadurch zugleich schwerer, die vielen negativen Alltagserfahrungen von Türken in Deutschland zu thematisieren; sie […]
Good news are coming from Africa, a continent which is has not been in the focus of many Diversity practioners: In Nigeria several local and international organisations are pooling their strenghts in order to fight against the missing inclusion of disabled Africans. And women in Zimbabwe gained a record-breaking number of seats in Zimbabwe’s new […]
It is nearly impossible to be informed about all kinds of anti-discrimination laws and relevant updates in more than 30 European countries at the same time. Thus a quality overview is not only helpful but essential to get a concise yet accurate overview of local specifics and regional similarities. The 16th bi-annual “European Anti-Discrimination Law […]
Older people are, on average, more reliable and more productive than younger people. This is one of the most surprising results of the Cogito-Study, which has now been published by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. A team of researchers from Berlin, Frankfurt and Stockholm examined the mental performance of 200 […]
