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Die letzte Servicewüste haben Charlott und Anna-Sarah noch zusammen auf dem Sofa aufgenommen, nun treffen wir uns sicherheitshalber virtuell, um endlich mal wieder über feministische Interventionen, aktuelle Themen und Dinge, die wir gut finden, zu sprechen. Wir machen diesen Podcast am 5. Mai, dem Europäischen Protesttag zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderung, und unter diesem... Weiterlesen →

Zum Pride-Monat nehmen wir Quantität und Qualität queerer Repräsentation in der Serienlandschaft unter die Lupe, schauen auf Zahlen und Fakten, beschreiben Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre und kommen zum Schluss: Solange Ausnahmen die Regel sind, haben wir noch einen langen Weg vor uns.

It's an extraordinary time, isn't it? Women are leading the war against COVID-19. Women like the White House's Ambassador (Colonel, Doctor) Deborah Birx, who is clear about her target audience (mostly folks like my three millennials); and Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe of Banjul, The Gambia, who has deployed a COVID-19 Sensitization Team of young women and young men across the capital; and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg who gave a coronavirus press conference for kids; and the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure (former Mayor) Patricia de Lille, in South Africa who is finding quarantine sites and recruiting 20,000 public health workers throughout the country. Their assured confidence in taking initiative, acting with resilience, and driving for results - all attributes which the Harvard Business Review scored more highly in women than in men - should not be mistaken for more competent leadership, it is more competent leadership. And like so many women worldwide, some of these leading women also bear the daily brunt of health-, elder- and childcare.

COVID-19 is the latest but not the last global pandemic, and it will require both health and political responses. Neither can be delivered efficiently or effectively, without the voice and agency of the millions of women and girls even now leading the global fight against this disease. In the words of NDI's Board Chairman, Secretary Madeleine Albright, "women in power raise issues others overlook, invest in projects that others dismiss and seek to end abuses that others ignore." Yet, the unprecedented number of women in the forefront is not enough.

This is a global health emergency, one that reminds us of the sometimes dangerous gender gap in the providers of life-saving healthcare. The World Health Organization (WHO) tells us that 70% of all paid healthcare jobs are held by women and, on top of that, 50% of women's contribution to health around the globe is unpaid. It's a staggering statistic that of the 29 million papers published on the Zika and Ebola epidemics - both hugely gendered health shocks - less than 1% explored their gendered impact. And, while women are on the frontlines delivering care in hospitals, clinics, and their own homes, they remain under-represented in global health leadership: only 20% of WHO's own Emergency Committee is female. That's how invisible women are in the global debate, at a time when their voices and perspectives are needed most.

We're all in this together, right, so does it matter if there are still more men leading the fight? Yes, we are, and yes, it does. Why? Because, this is not only a health emergency, it is also a profound shock to our societies and economies. Which is why the COVID-19 crisis also has long-term opportunities and threats for gender equality and women's political empowerment following in its wake.

Let's go with examples of some of the threats first. As schools shut and the care burden for the sick and other children builds on women and girls, girls are more likely to have their education curtailed. This can have life-changing impacts such as early child marriage, a struggle for decent work, and a lack of confidence in their ability to be political leaders. Imposed movement restrictions hit women in multiple ways: they face increased levels of domestic and intimate partner violence at home, and they are often harassed, abused and assaulted by formal or informal security agents outside; the diversion of police resources to the response to the disease leaves women without the state protection that they are entitled to; and the physical restrictions often find further expression in the resurgence of retrogressive laws, policies and norms. The Catch-22 is that just when they are needed most to build resilience and represent their communities, between the fear of violence, the absence of protection and closing horizons, women are more likely to withdraw from political engagement than to step forward.

Amid the challenges, there are concrete opportunities. These include closing the digital gender gap through impactful policies and programs that link women and girls to politicians and policy-makers so they can advocate for their needs and hold their representatives to account. There's the possibility of introducing new social policy to 'unstereotype' the division of responsibilities that has women in some places spending ten times more time than men on unpaid care and domestic work. Finally, we can identify and support the women - social activists, professionals and in movements - at the grassroots and in their communities who are truly managing the COVID-19 response at community level and can become the next wave of political leaders.

At NDI we are committed to ensuring that both the health and political responses to this pandemic are truly democratic and reflect the perspectives and leadership of women and girls for the benefit of us all. Join us, as together we can change the face of politics.

Sandra Pepera, Senior Associate and Director for NDI's Gender, Women and Democracy team.

Gender, Women and Democracy,

Today we are joined once again by Colin Coulter, of National University of Ireland, Maynooth. You might remember Colin from way back in Episode 8. That was like. 3 years ago! I didn't even know I'd been doing this for three years!



But I wanted to ask Colin back on this week to talk about the recent election in Ireland. Because it turns out this wasn't any old election in Ireland! In a stunning result, Sinn Fein, a party which probably more than any other symbolizes the troubled history that many Irish people would sooner forget, surged from the 23 seats it won in the 2016 election, to 37 seats. Now, considering that prior to 2016, Sinn Fein typically never had more than 4 or 5 seats, the momentum here is clear. But it is now the second largest party in the Dail, just one seat behind Fianna Fáil (38 seats). Yet Sinn Fein isn't just a relic of Ireland's Civil War history. While it is a party with a complicated and often contradictory set of ideological commitments, the 2020 election result (ironically!) suggests a major realignment of the Irish political spectrum, away from Civil War politics, and towards something much more like the traditional European left-right model.



Colin Coulter is going to talk us through it all in just a moment. Before we get to the interview tho, Colin asked me to mention that he has a new article he has out, with Francisco Arqueros-Fernández, called "The Distortions of the Irish 'Recovery.'" You can find it in the Spring 2020 issue of the journal Critical Social Policy:



https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0261018319838912



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von Cathrin Mund Am 12. März 2020 beschlossen Bundes- und Landesregierungen in Deutschland erste Leitlinien zur Beschränkung sozialer Kontakte, um die Ausbreitung des Coronavirus zu verlangsamen, am 22. März 2020 gibt das Bundespresseamt eine Erweiterung der Leitlinien bekannt (vgl. BDA 22.03.2020). Die Menschen werden angehalten, Kontakte zu anderen Personen außerhalb...

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown announced his first campaign for public office as a college senior at a one dollar-per-plate fundraiser in a Yale dining hall. He won that race and joined the Ohio state legislature at just 22 years old. He went on to serve as Ohio Secretary of State, U.S. representative and finally U.S. senator. He joined David to talk about how he became a champion for the working class, his views on trade and why he thinks the upcoming election could be an electoral college landslide for Joe Biden.
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Sports broadcaster Bob Costas loved baseball from an early age. As a kid, Bob would sit in his father's car, tuning the radio to find baseball games taking place hundreds of miles from his home on Long Island. Since his first full-time broadcasting gig at 22, he has called NBA Finals and World Series, hosted Super Bowls and Olympic Games and been inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He joined David to talk about the intersection of politics and sports, the magic of baseball on the radio and the difficulty athletes, leagues, and sportscasters face in finding balance between advocacy and entertainment.
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Eitan Hersh, author of Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, and Assistant Professor of Civic Studies from the Department of Political Science at Tufts' Tisch College spoke on Thursday, October 15, at 11am via Zoom. The Office of Civic Engagement hosted the event and the […]

It's not hard to find original conversations about the dangers of "Big Tech", but it is rare to find original solutions. On this episode, we sit down with renowned professor and author, Francis Fukuyama, who has developed a fresh answer to the question of how to rein in the big digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

This week we revisit our October 2017 conversation with author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. He joins David to talk about his upbringing in Baltimore, his career in journalism, race relations in America, reflections on the Obama presidency, and more.
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It's been 50 years since Milton Friedman's world changing article which argued the only social responsibility of business is to increase profits. Since the Great Financial Crisis, that view has been increasingly challenged. On this anniversary, we revisit Friedman's legacy with New Yorker staff writer and author of "Transaction Man", Nick Lemann. Together, we explain what Friedman got right and what he got wrong about shareholder vs stakeholder capitalism.

This week, we took some time off for Thanksgiving so we're going to feature another University of Chicago Podcast Network show. It's called Big Brains. On this episode, they spoke with Professor James Robinson, author of the renowned book Why Nations Fail, about his groundbreaking theories on why certain nations succeed and others fail as well as the future of America's institutions. We hope you enjoy and we'll see you soon for a new episode of Not Another Politics Podcast.

In July the Intelligence and Security Committee published its long awaited Russia report.

To introduce the report, and explain the difficulties which delayed its publication, our first speaker is Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General and chair of the committee when the report was compiled. Then to discuss the threat posed by Russia, and how the West should respond, we have two further experts: Dame Anne Pringle, British Ambassador to Moscow 2008-2011; and Catherine Belton, investigative journalist and author of Putin's People.

John Heilemann is a journalist, author, television commentator, editor-in-chief of The Recount, and host of Showtime's The Circus. He joins David fresh from a swing through Iowa to share his assessment of the leading Democratic candidates, what he thinks matters most to voters in Iowa, why he believes Trump is politically underestimated, and whether or not impeachment will impact Trump in 2020.
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Erik Larson is a best-selling narrative non-fiction author. His latest book, The Splendid and the Vile, chronicles British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's first year in office during Germany's bombing blitz of London in 1940. Larson joins David to talk about what lessons we can glean from Churchill about leadership in times of crisis, what Larson learned about writing from his favorite mystery novels, his process for choosing a subject and crafting a narrative, and how legendary journalist Bob Woodward threatened his career.
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