Women’s employment and current discriminations

30 10 2006

Previous statements can be useful to understand women’s situation on the labour
market. Since the beginning of mankind, division of labour was established: men go
hunting while women collect fruits. Afterward, men had been supposed to bring money
home, occupying the public sphere, and women had to look after the kids and the
household, confined in the private sphere. [...]

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Ford, Politics, Customers or Society – Who’s to blame?

25 10 2006

In the current century where it is clear that almost everyone is aware of the
important Environmental issues (i.e. Global Warming, Energy Resource Crisis) and
Economical issues around the world especially the poorer regions, individuals and large
corporations find themselves in a position to pledge their effort using any available means
such as cash donations, free use of services, [...]

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The Soybean boom: Doom for Brazil’s forests and savannahs

20 10 2006

Characterized by a large and well-developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing and
service sector, Brazil’s economy outweighs that of all other South American countries and
is expanding its presence in world markets. Productivity gains – particularly in agriculture – contributed to the surge in exports, and Brazil in 2005 surpassed the previous year’s record export level. Within the agricultural [...]

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