Two femicides occur within days of one another in past week in Peć/Peja and Uroševac/Ferizaj in Kosovo. An annual report about women’s rights in the Western Balkans reported that in 2023, there were 29 cases of reported femicide in Serbia.
Gender-based violence present in the digital space reflects the everyday violence women face in a violence-prone society
We have been taught for millennia that muscle and strength are not for women. We were taught to be as small as possible, to take up as little space as possible, to provide as little resistance as possible – we were taught how to become the “weaker sex”.
Parents find it difficult to reconcile their work and the struggle to provide for their family with the time needed to take care of their children. Mothers bear a multiple burden, and state policies provide little besides declarative concern for the birth rate.
“Part time workers will be equal in disenfranchisement and exploitation of their work.”
