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Rossella Ciccia

@rossellaciccia.bsky.social
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Associate professor of Social Policy @University of Oxford @DSPI Oxford | Fellow @greentempleton College, |Researching social policy, care, gender, intersectionality| Emma Goldman Award 2020

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵
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Maximilian Reichert @mischewu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@unil.bsky.social will host the LIVES International Research Days in Lausanne on 4-5 November 2026. Please do submit your work to our panel on family complexities, social policies, and social stratification, with @martinkolk.bsky.social and @rossellaciccia.bsky.social as experts. It'll be lovely!
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LIVES International Research Days 2026 | Centre LIVES
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Transforming Care Network @tcaren.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📢 25 March, 12:00 CET | Webinar Join us for the presentation of the Research Handbook on Social Care Policy (ed. Costanzo Ranci & Tine Rostgaard) — 34 chapters, 50+ scholars, a landmark volume on care policy worldwide. 👉 Register: vive-dk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SocialCare #CarePolicy #Webinar
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ONLINE PRESENTATION - Research Handbook on Social Care Policy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ONLINE PRESENTATION - Research Handbook on Social Care Policy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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Rossella Ciccia @rossellaciccia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We are hiring! We are looking for a departmental lecturer to teach and supervise master students in comparative social policy. We offer a supportive and engaging environment in which to develop your own research agenda. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions Apply here 👇
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Mary Daly from @dspi-oxford.bsky.social presenting key insights from the @reusilience.bsky.social book “Families, Welfare States and Resilience” at #ESPAnet www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social Details: ✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST ✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org ✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j... @lexnetwork.bsky.social
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Gender and Justice – Call for Book Editor – LEX Research Network
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The thought occurred reading this by @jdportes.bsky.social that no country where ‘high-skilled’ and ‘high-earning’ are automatically lumped together in political jargon will ever know how to build a happy society by caring adequately for the young or elderly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes
The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 14/05/2025
The UK has dropped massively in both ILGA and TGEU's rankings, which have been published today. This means a material decrease in rights. This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country. goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...
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UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling has seen the UK fall six places to 22nd. It’s time to fight back
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
For a country with a population as old as the UK’s, this is the national equivalent of taking a hammer and swinging it right at your own knee
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 13/05/2025
I’ll take the cutting migration idea seriously the day a politician actually outlines a serious budgeted plan for training British-born workers for the skills we’re short of, and housing them in the places where they’re needed. Until then it’s just the worst kind of blame-shifting propaganda
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A party that does not recognize this has given up on the basic principles of social democracy
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
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Mona Lena Krook @mlkrook.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I am excited to share the latest issue of Politics & Gender, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the journal! Articles reflect on contributions of P&G to political science and our research community. All articles are free to read until the next issue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... gendersky
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 @drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social‬ examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/fiEoCno
Research article "From Inclusion to Transformation: Politics & Gender as a Critical Actor for Intersectional Political Science" by Ashlee Christoffersen & Orly Siow.
Abstract begins: The popularization of intersectionality within political science, feminist scholarship, and activism has constituted nothing less than a paradigm shift (Hancock 2007a). Politics & Gender has been a critical actor in enabling change within our discipline. However, this development has been hard won and there remains much to be done to operationalize intersectionality in line with Black feminist theory, and to center women of color and other intersectionally marginalized groups within scholarship. This article both traces the evolution of intersectional approaches within Politics & Gender over two decades and articulates pathways for future gender and politics research which aims to employ intersectionality.
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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Shaping institutional change in skill formation: the role of background ideas in growth strategies
States are taking on an increasingly prominent role in shaping policy across advanced capitalist democracies. This paper conducts a comparative study of state intervention in skill formation betwee...
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Incredibly weak argument by the FT. Asking an austerity-traumatized, increasingly aging society to contribute to the expenses of geopolitical security with social spending cuts makes it the opposite of safer.
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 11/03/2025
This Thursday, SOFI researcher @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social will participate in a parallel event to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in New York (CSW). At this NGO-led conference, he will present his research on the challenges faced by single mothers worldwide. #CSW69
LEAVE NO SINGLE MOTHER BEHIND
A PARALLEL EVENT TO CSW69

13 March

#100MILLION VOICES STRONG

JOIN US, AND BE PART OF THE SOLUTION

UN Church Center
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017

Second Floor
6:30 to 8 pm

SIGN UP! (with a QR code)

(There is also an image of a child in a pink hat and a woman at a protest holding a sign that says "SINGLE SUPERMOM.")SINGLE SUPERMOMS
LEAVE NO SINGLE MOTHER BEHIND

Single mothers did not receive particular attention in the Beijing Declaration. Over the last 30 years their situation has not fundamentally changed, and many of them struggle to afford food and housing to this day, in part because they are single mothers.

Help us ensure that single mothers are not forgotten by international policy once again, and improve their situation over the next 30 years.

SPEAKERS
ISRA LEE: FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF SINGLE SUPERMOM
RENSE NIEUWENHUIS: RESEARCHER AND POLICY-EXPERT
MARIA STERN: EX-POLITICIAN AND FOUNDER OF THANKS DAY

MODERATED BY
JACQUELINE LEDUC: UN REPRESENTATIVE OF MAKE MOTHERS MATTER

TOGETHER WE STAND FOR GENDER JUSTICE FOR #100MILLION SINGLE MOMS AND THEIR CHILDREN!

(Logos at the bottom include: Stockholm University, Single SuperMom, rEUsilience, Make Mothers Matter, and Thanks Day - Whole Day for Single Parent Families & Friends.)
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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🥁 New Article Collection! 📚 #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe 1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles 🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social Read and download here ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
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Gender & Politics | Genere & Politica @genere-politica.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
📣Call for panel alert 📣 Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩 info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc... @alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky
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Conference 2025 – SISP
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Liza Mügge @lizamugge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📢 PhD vacancy: Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments. The position is part of my NWO-VICI 'Political Masculinities in Europe.' Please, share with potentially interested candidates in masculinities, sexuality and representative politics. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments
The Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam is hiring a PhD-student in a research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VICI), titled ‘Political Masculinities in Eur...
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Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Join us for a guest lecture by Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social on Authoritarian Feminism, the Broligarchy & Left Feminist Alternatives! This Thursday, hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster @camsociology.bsky.social 📆 6 March, 5-6pm 📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge
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Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 23/02/2025
Disability benefits have become a more important source of income for low-to-middle income households. Read Money, money, money today to learn more about the shifting mix of income sources for poorer households over the last 30 years ⤵️ buff.ly/4gE0beF
Chart showing Total disability benefits as a proportion of benefit income and gross household income for non-pensioner low-to-middle income households: GB/UK
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
"When it came to personal harassment, there was a clear gender dimension." The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.
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Two in five scientists in our survey reported harassment and intimidation. Often, the perpetrators are inside the institution
Science doesn’t occur in a vacuum – politics, harassment and intimidation can hamstring progress.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀 I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p... ⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"When and why do anti-gender movements fail?" 🏳️‍🌈✊ Bringing together evidence from four countries, this paper compares cases of failed & successful referenda on same-sex marriage and related rights to explain why they fail. CHECK IT OUT:
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When and why do anti-gender movements fail?
Few areas of gender politics have received as much scholarly attention in recent years as its antithesis, the so-called ‘anti-gender politics’. A common denominator of existing studies of anti-gender…
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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We at @worldpolitics.bsky.social mourn the loss of brilliant scholar and editorial board member, Mala Htun. Read about her career and commitment to her students and university here www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
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'A smart, talented, creative thinker:' UNM political science professor dies
Mala Htun, an author who taught at the University of New Mexico for over a decade, died Friday after living with cancer the last few years.
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
📢 We’re putting together the very first standalone @ecpr.bsky.social conference for the thriving @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group! The call for panels & papers is now open. Join us! 🤩
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
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Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
📢 FINAL CALL Gender and Justice seeks a suitably qualified senior feminist academic to join the existing team as Co-editor-in-chief. Details 👇@ bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social
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Rossella Ciccia @rossellaciccia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Interested in care work and care policies? Then join us for our next seminar @DSPI_Oxford from Jan 23. We have many exciting speakers and will be talking about social care reform, post-growth caring economy, carewashing, disability, AI and more...sign up here 👇 www.spi.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...
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Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you are outside Spain and would like to come to Barcelona for a postdoc, the Beatriu de Pinós call is out. Check the conditions and contact us if you want to come to the UAB! agaur.gencat.cat/ca/beques-i-...
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Ajuts postdoctorals Beatriu de Pinós (BP 2024)
L'objecte de la convocatòria Beatriu de Pinós és atorgar ajuts en règim de concurrència competitiva, destinades a finançar la contractació i la incorporació de personal investigador postdoctoral al si...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🏆The 2023 EEP Best Article Prize goes to 'The grassroots of #Putin’s ideology: civil origins of an uncivil regime' by Ivan Grek (@RussiaProgram @ElliottSchoolGW). Huge Congrats!🥳Read it 4 #FREE 👉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fjc...
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East European Politics Best Article Prize
Explore the article collection: East European Politics Best Article Prize. Published in East European Politics.
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today we say our final farewell to Walter Korpi. I thought this piece gave a good overview of the continued relevance of his work and legacy: jacobin.com/2022/01/clas...
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Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working. Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did. Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.
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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Happening now - join us for this very insightful and inspiring event on universal health coverage and universal social protection Let’s work together towards achieving #SDG1 and #SDG3! 🗓️12 Dec 2024 | 9:00-17:30 CET 📍 Hybrid: Geneva & Online 🔗 Register now 👉 bit.ly/496zBJ8
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ILO | Social Protection Platform
Social Protection is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security. It aims to capitalize on experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation
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Manuel Alvariño @manuel-alvarinho.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Very interesting! 👇
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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Delighted to share a new publication out today in the Journal of Marriage and Family w/ the brilliant @leahruppanner.bsky.social. In "A typology of US parents’ mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor" we assess underlying patterns in the domestic "mental load" among 3,000 US parents. 🧵 1/10
Abstract for "A Typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor"
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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
call for papers Sociology in the Times of Genocide @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #sociologysky #conteniousky
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Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A lot of places say that by hiring junior (AP) women they will eventually have reached gender equality by generational change. Yet, lots of women get stuck at lower ranked positions and a non-trivial amount eventually leave the academy, leaving full profs gender ratios still completely unbalanced.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 10/12/2024
Our latest Housing Outlook finds that more than 1 million children are pushed into poverty by high housing costs. Tackling this should be a central element of the Government’s upcoming Child Poverty Strategy. Read the full report➡️https://buff.ly/3VnzDq8
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🉑 𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝 〽️ 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 @howlettm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Job alert 🚨 🔎(Postdoc) Researcher (full-time) ✨Comparative Politics & Public Policy 🌍Bielefeld University ⏳Apply until 3 January 2025 Details 🇩🇪: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/386... Details 🇬🇧: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/386... Please share widely/get in touch for more info
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Great to see this terrific paper out from @catherinedevries.bsky.social et al! How people’s everyday experiences, in specific places, construct political meaning is critical to understanding how they vote (see: Americans’ negative view of a seemingly robust US economy).
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Good day to watch The Swimmers and recall how absurdly evil the Assad regime has been and how important this moment is for Syrians, the region and, well yes, Europe too youtu.be/cxK2GfMF7vs
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The Swimmers | Trailer
YouTube video by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
We tend to forget how limiting hegemonic masculinity can be for men. It restricts them into one type of men and that only. Gender equity isn't just about allowing women to compete better, it is about allowing men to be their full diverse selves amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...
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Recasting masculinity: the cheerleaders subverting Austria’s gender stereotypes | Austria | The Guardian
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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Happy Sunday! Sharing our paper on enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, with a strong emphasis a life-cycle approach to system-building. www.ilo.org/publications...
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Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?
This paper outlines the perspective and approach of the ILO’s Universal Social Protection Department to enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, anchored in international soc...
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Robert Cooper @robertcooper-us.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
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Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/12/2024
Meet the ‘sickfluencers’ of TikTok – and don’t be fooled by the outrage obscuring the real scandal | Frances Ryan
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Meet the ‘sickfluencers’ of TikTok – and don’t be fooled by the outrage obscuring the real scandal | Frances Ryan
That desperate people have to look online for help with disability and sickness benefits is what should truly upset us Have you heard of the “sickfluencers”? I admit the phenomenon had passed me by until this week. “Sickfluencer” sounds like a term to…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/12/2024
Elderly patient dies after 52-hour A&E wait without medication
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Elderly patient dies after 52-hour A&E wait without medication
Report highlights ‘shocking’ example of man left unable to swallow after waiting over two days mostly on a bed in a corridor without regular medication An elderly man was left unable to swallow after waiting over two days in A&E without being given…
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