Gender Globally

      We are Edith Bosch, Montserrat Egea, Vera Garcia, and Camilo Jaramillo. 4 students of Blanquerna with different cultural backgrounds sharing our take on gender studies.

We believe that conducting a gender analysis is essential to comprehend the critical elements of our past and present. Gender is political. It goes beyond examining women’s status; it helps uncover power dynamics and inequalities. It is a social construct that has shaped the nets of social relations in our world, transgressing all physical and mental frontiers. It has propulsed political agendas and subjugated men and women to the confinements of what is expected from them.

Gender analysis is critical to the status quo and aids us in using a powerful lens to understand the systemic issues prolonged by gender roles. It is only by exploring our world with these critical glasses that we can effectively produce inclusive policy-making.

On this webpage, you will be able to interact and explore 6 different articles on specific matters surrounding gender disparity and inequalities, one for each continent. In North America, the feminisation of poverty in single racialised mothers. Moving to the southern hemisphere of South America, human rights and LGBTQ+ trans femicides in Brazil. In Europe, militarised masculinity is present in the UN Blue Helmets in the Balkan countries. For Asia, climate refugees and gender: Bangladesh women in the textile industry. Moving to Oceania the colonisation of bodies in Australia through aboriginal population control in the 1960s. Last, but not least,  post-colonization and gender in Africa, where we explore how Kenyan women did not free themselves from Western colonialism after independence.

“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results”. Judith Butler