Author: Brianna Wiest, ForbesWomen Women are at the helm of fighting COVID-19. It’s not just that women make up 91% of nurses, 74% of healthcare workers and almost 62% of pharmaceutical professions. Having nearly half of the world’s children home from school means...
Tanya Hristova is 23 years old, born in a small city named Kotel in northern Bulgaria. She works as a school psychologist in G.S.Rakovski High School – the same school she graduated. Despite her professional dedication to working with children, Tanya’s real passion is...
Author: Natasha Dobreva Bulgaria reports to the UN every four years on its progress in protecting women’s rights, following the monitoring mechanism of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW, ratified in 1981). On...
In recent months a debate on the topic of “For and Against abortion in Bulgaria” has started running in Bulgarian media. It was unlocked by political figures, who tend to bind the frequency of abortions to the trend of negative population growth in...
This legendary question asked the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism in the art world in 1989. Whether it is still standing today and how has the situation changed in the art scene in the last 30 years...
In 1971, art researcher Linda Nochlin wrote her manifesto, which posed one of the most emblematic questions about the history of art and its place in the struggle for gender equality: “Why has there never been a great woman artist?” We continue to reflect...
10 young women and girls aged 15-35 from the town of Lom will be included in an initiative for empowering through entrepreneurship. Within the WENTPower project the participants will receive training, mentoring and consulting for developing a business plan and two of...
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Margaret Atwood Three months ago we were several women sitting on a lovely porch in the mountain, celebrating the last evening of a training we had attended together in the few...
Gender gap has been an ongoing issue in becoming an effective leader. Many believed that men were better than women because of how they handled their emotions and made firm decisions. It was also believed that maternity leaves and childcare were what held women back...
