Current Affairs
A Gendered Pandemic: Why Women in the Workforce Have Been Hit by COVID-19
This pandemic has brought to light what many have known for decades: in times of economic crisis, women in and out the workforce are hit hard. Job losses from COVID-19 have affected women more than men, a reality that captures various issues of gender inequality in the global economy. Questions of unpaid housework, care and […]
What can we learn from people who hear the dead?
Do you believe in ghosts? I don’t. Visiting a medium, or otherwise trying to communicate with the dead, was surprisingly common in my North-East Catholic family. I’ve always looked upon the practise with a lot of scepticism and a little cynicism. Medium’s a word for these people, I’d have thought, but some other words, like […]
