The world’s largest and robustly growing industry is the electronics industry. As new and faster technological innovations keep coming in, consumer demand for recent products increases. This has resulted in a shorter lifespan of devices and a thriving e-waste problem. According to Global E-Waste Monitor, consumers all around the world discard 54 million tonnes of…
Descartes: discours de la méthode I would like to begin this article by quoting a famous reflection by Descartes in Discours de la méthode (1637), which is someway related to my period of study abroad. The French philosopher claims he abandoned the study of letters to travel, as soon as his age allowed him to…
If we walk around our cities without getting too much distracted by our routine, we will notice that some people actually live on the streets we walk. Unfortunately, all around the world, there are people who have no fixed abode and they are among the most vulnerable ones. Why do people become homeless? People…
Water is arguably the most precious resource on Earth, and yet we often value and manage it extremely poorly. Typically, the price of water reflects a limited number of costs, from treatments to transport, but its actual value is far greater. The fact that the prices of water are low and subsidized is important to…
What is child marriage? Child marriage is a formal or informal union between a girl or a boy under the age of eighteen and an adult or another child. As a result of gender disparity, the majority of child marriages are between girls and men. This practice endangers the freedom of choice of too many…
Over the last few decades, we have been observing an increase in the number of couples that choose to be childfree. This means that, even if they could have children, they choose not to, due to several reasons. This phenomenon is spreading especially in the USA and Europe (Italy has the highest rate of couples…
There is no doubt that social movements played a significant role in building the kind of society we live in today. Let’s, for example, think about women’s right to vote, which was obtained thanks to the “Women Suffrage’s Movement”. The study of social movements developed at an unprecedented pace in the 1980s. Social movements and protests,…
Within Europe, the education systems are very different from one another. If the study programme is more or less the same, the way it is structured can vary across different areas. HOW DOES IT WORK? In Europe, there are three main different models of the school system; single structure education, the offer of a…
International Women’s Day is a yearly celebration all around the world in honour of women, and the date of this anniversary is March 8th. The origin of this celebration is quite controversial. Some people say that it is meant to recall the many workers of the New York Cotton textile industry that died in the…
The reasons behind this wage disparity are many and they are a consequence of the way women are perceived by the society they belong to. The first reason is occupational segregation, as women’s and men’s economic status is influenced by the sectors in which they work. The majority of women work in lower-level sectors, such…
