18-Sep-2020 | feminism, glossary
Today is the first International Equal Pay Day. ♀💪 “Equal pay means that all workers have the right to receive equal remuneration for work of equal value.” (Un Women) It will be 257 years before men and women have pay equality. (The World Economic Forum,...
15-Jun-2020 | architecture, glossary, politics, society
The term house poor or housing poor (derived from the term working poor) describes a person who spends a disproportionally large amount of their monthly income on housing expenses. Accordingly, the expenses for housing should not exceed 30% of a person’s income....
6-Jun-2020 | glossary, racism, society
Racial Profiling”[…] racial profiling is discriminatory and unlawful. Such profiling is defined as the “use by police, with no objective and reasonable justification, of grounds such as race, colour, language, religion, nationality or national or ethnic...
27-May-2020 | climate change, glossary
But what does it mean, exactly?With the glossary, we try to expand our terminology to help improve our discussions and better underline arguments on ever so important topics. source: IPCC Special Report 2018, Global Warming of 1.5°C, Annex I: Glossary
