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Let’s talk about the rights of women with disabilities in Argentina | Celeste Romero
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I am Celeste Romero, an occupational therapist, and I work in mental health and community health. I am also an activist. When and how do you work with women in… View
Intersectionality and the Future of Feminism | A Conversation with Anna Cavaliere
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On Monday, March 9, scholars and legal experts gathered at the University of Ferrara for the “Equality and Difference(s)” laboratory; a workshop that focused on how feminist legal theory addresses… View
First Laboratory | The Battle Against the “Naturalization” of Inequality
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The first session in a series of workshops for the 2026 European project WE Frame took place at the University of Ferrara in Italy on 9th March, one day after… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Emmy Noether
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Emmy Noether was born in 1882 in Erlangen, Germany, into a family deeply connected to academia. Her father, Max Noether, was a respected mathematician, and growing up in this intellectual… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Rosa Luxemburg
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Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1871 in Zamość, in what is now Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. From a young age she showed extraordinary intellectual abilities and a… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Hedy Lamarr
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Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, in 1914. From a young age, she showed a strong curiosity about how things worked. Her father often took… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Ada Lovelace
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Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was an English mathematician and writer who is widely regarded as the first computer programmer in history. She is best known for her work on Charles Babbage’s… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Gisèle Halimi
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Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020) was a French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist activist, and politician who became one of the most influential defenders of women’s rights in Europe. Born in Tunisia, she grew up… View
5 Books to Understand Intersectionality
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Intersectionality helps us understand how gender is shaped by race, class, sexuality, culture, and social position. Long before the term entered common use, writers and thinkers were already describing how… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Sofia Corradi
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Sofia Corradi (born 1934) is an Italian academic and educational reformer best known as the visionary behind the Erasmus programme. After studying in the United States on a scholarship in… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Rosalind Franklin
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Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was crucial to discovering the structure of DNA. Educated at Cambridge University, she quickly became known for her… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Bertha von Suttner
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Bertha von Suttner was born in 1843 in Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire, into an aristocratic but financially unstable family. Despite her noble background, she experienced economic insecurity… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Judith Butler
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Judith Butler (born 1956) is an American philosopher and one of the most influential gender theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Although not European by origin, her… View
Cristina Rivera Garza and the Language of Femicide
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In recent years, Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza has become one of the most powerful literary voices addressing gender-based violence and femicide. Her work moves beyond narration: it is an… View
Accessibility: the story behind a symbol
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Today, the wheelchair accessibility symbol is one of the most widely recognized signs in the world. It appears at entrances, on public transport, in cultural venues, and across digital maps,… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir was born in 1908 in Paris, France, into a conservative middle-class family. From an early age, she showed exceptional intellectual ability and a strong desire for independence…. View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the first European thinkers to argue systematically for women’s rights. In her groundbreaking book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she challenged… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Wangari Maathai
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“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.” Wangari Maathai was born in 1940 in rural Kenya and became a… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Louise Weiss
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Louise Weiss was born in 1893 in Arras, France. A journalist, writer, and political activist, she believed deeply in the power of ideas and media to shape society. At a… View
Let’s talk about accessibility | Martina Gollner and Christina Riedler
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This interview features Christina Ridler and Martina, founders of FullAccess, an accessibility consulting agency based in Vienna and established in 2016. The organization works to make events inclusive and accessible… View
Let’s talk about women in politics | Fabiana Martini
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Fabiana Martini is a journalist. From 2000 to 2010, she edited the weekly magazine Vita Nuova, becoming the first secular woman to take charge of a religious periodical in Italy…. View
Let’s talk about trans feminism, memory, and present-day utopias | Iza Nico Borrelli
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Iza Nico Borrelli is a trans non-binary activist, author, and PhD student in gender studies within political science. Their work focuses on gender politics, trans feminism, and power, grounded in… View
Let’s talk about autonomy, vulnerability, and rights | Silvina Álvarez Medina
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Silvina Álvarez Medina is a university professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she works in the Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Philosophy. Based in Madrid, her research… View
Webinar: Gender Equality in European Union Policies: Challenges and Strategies
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4 December 2025 | 16:00–18:00Keynote speaker: Dolores Morondo Taramundi, Instituto de Derechos Humanos, Deusto University, Bilbao (Spain)Chair: Sara Boicelli, Università di Palermo (Italy)Here you can watch the recording of the… View
Webinar: Protection of Gender Identity or Protection of the Gender Binary?
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18 November 2025 | 16:00–18:00Gender Equality for Intersex and Non-Binary People in the Light of ECHR Jurisprudence Keynote speaker: Klaudyna Horniczak, Jagiellonian University (Poland)Chair: Anna de Giuli, Università di Milano… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Simone Veil
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Simone Veil was born in 1927 in Nice and survived the Holocaust after being deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16. The experience of inhumanity, injustice, and the collapse… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Gabrielle Defrenne
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Gabrielle Defrenne, born in 1929 in Belgium, worked as a flight attendant for Sabena at a time when airlines imposed strict gendered rules on women. Female staff were expected to… View
Let’s talk about body, food, identity and art | Tiia-Riikka Hietanen
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Tiia-Riikka Hietanen is a Finnish visual artist and literature teacher whose work explores the intersection of body, food, and gender. Having grown up under the pressures of a strict, often… View
Let’s talk about scholar activism | Farzana Bashiri
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Farzana Bashiri is a recent PhD graduate in Science Policy who studied the role of scholar activism within academia. Science Policy broadly examines how science institutions and political decision-making influence… View
Let’s talk about women at driving | Alessia Munari
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Alessia Munari is a driving instructor in northern Italy and the founder of a project that supports women who experience fear or anxiety while driving. Working alongside a traffic psychologist,… View
Let’s talk about poetry | Marzia D’Amico
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Marzia D’Amico are now a researcher in Lisbon working on Italian studies, comparative literature, and gender studies. Their research focuses on the counter-canon in Italian poetry from the late 1960s… View
Let’s talk about science communication | Domizia Tallone
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Domizia Tallone is a science communicator, museum guide at the Astronomical Museum of Rome, and a feminist and environmental activist. Despite her scientific background (a master’s degree in astrophysics and… View
Let’s talk about sexism in journalism | Roberta Cavaglià
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Roberta Cavaglià, an Italian freelance journalist based in Barcelona, investigated sexism in Italy’s journalism schools together with colleagues Francesca Candioli and Stefania Prandi. Between February and October 2024, they interviewed… View
Let’s talk about inclusive and accessible language | Alice Orrù
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Alice Orrù is a freelance writer and communication consultant living near Barcelona, specializing in inclusive and accessible language. Her work focuses on choosing words consciously through an intersectional lens, addressing… View
Let’s talk about migration | Oiza Q. Obasuyi
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Oiza Q. Obasuyi, a sociology PhD student at the University of Bologna, highlights why migration must be studied through a gendered and intersectional lens. Public discourse often imagines migrants as… View
Let’s Talk About Work | Barbara Leda Kenny
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Barbara Leda Kenny discusses the persistent gender inequalities in Italy’s labor market and the challenges feminism faces today. She explains that, despite record levels of female employment, only slightly more… View
Let’s talk about queer cinema | Ful Massimi
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Ful Massimi teach courses in queer film and media, documentary cinema, and the ethics of spectatorship at John Abbott College, based in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. they discuss how queer cinema can be analysed and why… View
Let’s talk about gender, music and the new generations | Ingrid Dyrnes Svendsen
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Ingrid Dyrnes Svendsen, a music therapist and advisor at JM Norway, works in Oslo on music and cultural projects centered on inclusion, representation, and youth empowerment. She explains that music… View
Let’s talk about the role of gender in farming | Mathilde Vandaele
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In this interview, Mathilde Vandaela, a Belgian PhD graduate living in Switzerland, shares insights from her research on neo-farmers: individuals who aspire to become professional farmers but do not come… View
Let’s talk about women in rural communities | Cristina Victoria Chert
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Cristina Victoria Chert, executive director of the Romanian foundation The Open Network for Community Development, explains her long-standing work with rural communities, particularly women. The foundation was born from a… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Hannah Arendt
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Did you know that Hannah Arendt, a refugee from Nazi Germany, reshaped political thought with her ideas on totalitarianism and civic responsibility? Her work still frames how we understand democracy… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Clara Zetkin
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Did you know that Clara Zetkin initiated International Women’s Day in 1910, turning women’s rights into a global movement? She fought for equality, labour rights, and peace across Europe. Clara… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Olympe de Gouges
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Did you know that Olympe de Gouges rewrote the French Declaration of Rights to include women in 1791? Her bold activism for equality cost her her life during the Revolution…. View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Ursula Hirschmann
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Did you know that Ursula Hirschmann helped carry the Ventotene Manifesto out of fascist captivity, shaping the foundations of European integration? As a feminist activist, she later founded Femmes pour… View
Let’s talk about social work | Patrizia Pedrazzini
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My name is Patrizia Pedrazzini, and I live in the province of Cremona. I work as a freelance social worker and am a contract lecturer on the Social Work degree… View
Women Who Shaped Europe | Marie Curie
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Marie Curie was a groundbreaking physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium and coined the term “radioactivity.” As the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — and the… View
Let’s talk about cultural and family mediation | Amal Elfakharany
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Amal Elfakharany is a cultural mediator and family mediator, Arabic language teacher for Italians, also religion and Arabic language teacher for Muslim community. What is the job of cultural mediator,… View
Why are we talking about xenofeminism?
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Xenofeminism (often abbreviated XF) is a contemporary feminist movement and philosophical framework that embraces technology, science, and radical change as tools to challenge and dismantle systems of oppression. First articulated… View
Discover the “Bad Feminist” Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay is an influential American writer, professor, and cultural critic whose work cuts deep into issues of race, gender, sexuality, and trauma. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1974, Gay… View
Freedom and responsibility of women, between patriarchy and neoliberalism
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The objective of this analysis is to try to understand what relationship presently exists between gendered conceptions of responsibility and women’s freedom, neoliberal hyper-responsibilisation and the rhetoric of care mainstreaming…. View
Vulnerable Capacity. Notes on a Quiet Legal Revolution
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The vulnerability turn has contributed to the concept of vulnerability becoming an established part of the legal lexicon. By adopting a legal-philosophical perspective, this paper will explore what might be… View
Taking Disability Seriously. On the Feminist Disability Studies Critic to the Mainstream Feminism.
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The discipline of Feminist Disability Studies (FDS) emerges in the midEighties as a critique of both Feminist and Disability Studies, considered “guilty” of excluding women with disabilities from their theorization… View
Relational Equality Before Power(s). Towards the Shifting Parameter
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Equality is one of the most controversial concepts in the contemporary philosophical and legal debates. Alongside problems concerning its content, the critical theory scholars debate the neutrality associated to its… View
The Short Blanket. Sustainability of gender longevity
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This is a translation of a text by Annalisa Ferrari (CDS Committee) presented at the conference ‘FEMGEVITY: Women’s difficult journey towards the right to “healthy” longevity: Science, prejudice, discrimination’, organised… View
Five Essential Books to Understand and Confront Gender-Based Violence
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Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive violations of human rights worldwide, cutting across geographies, cultures, and historical periods. Literature has long served as a space where this violence… View
Women’s Rights Through History: Voices That Shaped Equality
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The history of women’s rights in Europe and beyond has been shaped by courageous thinkers who, in times of profound inequality, dared to imagine a radically different future. Long before… View
Key Institutions and Agencies Advancing Gender Equality in Europe
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This section offers an overview of the main European institutions, agencies, and networks that play a central role in shaping, implementing, and monitoring gender equality policies across Europe. From specialised… View
EU Gender Equality Framework: Essential Legislation, Policies and Parliamentary Actions
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This curated collection brings together the most relevant EU legislation, political recommendations, and European Parliament resolutions shaping today’s gender equality framework. Designed to support the WE Frame project’s research and… View
Gender & Care in the EU: A Conversation on Equality | 4 November 2025
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The WE Frame project hosted its online panel dedicated to exploring how gender and care intersect within European legal, social, and political structures. The discussion focused on how care work… View
EU Gender Equality Law: developments, challenges and ideas for the future
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EU Gender Equality Law: developments, challenges and ideas for the future 28.10.2025 | 17.30 – 19.30 CEST Keynote Speaker: Alexandra Timmer, Utrecht University, Holland Institutional greetings: Gloria Cuoghi, CPO Ordine… View
Who Shapes the Gender Stories in 2025 | 16 October 2025
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On 16 October 2025, the online panel ‘Who Shapes the Gender Stories in 2025’ was held as part of WP11 of the WE Frame project. The webinar was presented during… View
Press Kit [English]
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In the folder you will find: The project logo; The project presentation; The description of the partners View
Press Kit [Italian]
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Nella cartella puoi trovare: Il logo del progetto; la presentazione del progetto; la descrizione dei partner View