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 E-Mail IMAGE: Gerald Holton, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Gerald Holton "for his numerous seminal contributions to the history of 19th and 20th century science, in which he has shown a special sensitivity to cultural, philosophical, and sociological and gender contexts," says the committee in its citation. Holton, it continues, has developed "a reasoned analysis of the complex phenomeno...

Get email notification for articles from Ofer Aderet Follow Apr. 14, 2021 8:54 PM In 1942, all traces of Bianca Schwartz disappeared. An orphan who arrived in Palestine as part of the Youth Aliyah effort to save Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe, she had lived on Kibbutz Afikim in the north before moving to Jerusalem. A lengthy search eventually revealed that Schwartz had converted to Islam, married an Arab man, changed her name to Leila Natshe Ali and was living in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, which in 1948 had come under Jordanian control. The couple had five childre...

Reform tax policies to protect women – AASU’s Kodjie Secretary-General of the All-Africa Students Union, Peter Kwasi Kodjie, has charged African governments to formulate progressive policies aimed at reducing the tax burdens on women. In an article for NORRAG Special Issue 5 titled, “Understanding the Gender Dimension of Tax and Education”, Kodjie stated that even though the provision of public infrastructure and social services by governments is a key factor for socio-economic development, tax systems ought to reflect the uneven burdens between men and women. Expressing concerns over...

  Secretary General of the All-Africa Students Union Peter Kwasi Kodjie has charged African governments to formulate progressive policies aimed at reducing the tax burdens on women. In his latest article for NORRAG Special Issue 5 titled “Understanding the Gender Dimension of Tax and Education”, Mr Kodjie stated that even though the provision of public infrastructure and social services by governments is a key factor for socio-economic development, tax systems ought to reflect the uneven burdens between men and women. Expressing concerns over the inequity of VAT laws in Africa, he said,...

Jennifer Hunt Women face a ‘glass ceiling’ effect during their careers in many sectors, and science is no exception. A recent Nature’s Editorial (claims that “[i]n the United States and Europe around half of those who gain doctoral degrees in science and engineering are female – but barely one-fifth of full professors are women” (Nature Editorial 2013). Although it occurs – even prevails – in many sectors, the existence of a glass ceiling for women in science is particularly jarring since, as claimed by Robert Merton, science should follow the norm of universalism according to...