Perspektiven auf die Arbeitswelt, Politik & Gesellschaft
Dear friends, After the sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, many of you have contacted me to ask me if I was alright in Berlin and how I see the events, which was very attentive and sweet. Indeed, these attacks have contributed severely to a more aggressive debating style among the German citizens, […]
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Living in Western European countries, I have observed a puzzling behaviour – the attempt to pretend that gender roles don’t exist anymore. Some even dare to talk about a post-gender society and how old-fashioned the perspective on the topic is. Without being normative about how a person should be or behave, the reality shows that […]
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Rags to riches, from the bottom to the top – the American Dream is one of the symbols of the USA everyone knows. The belief that one can achieve everything simply when putting enough effort into the own goals, has made the country a popular destination for people around the world. And, in fact, comparing […]
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Only yesterday I found myself on the “Digitising Europe“ Summit in-between CEOs and managers of companies like Huawei, Intel and IBM among others, politicians, journalists and decision makers from the public sector. The Vodafone Foundation had organised the event and the ambitious goal was to debate about opportunities in digital business for the future generation […]
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Inequality has been an issue in many different spheres – regardless if speaking about human rights, social mobility and access to education or global economic inequality between developed and underdeveloped countries, we see concerning dynamics emerging from too big gaps of distribution of goods, rights, economic capacity, etc. Nevertheless, inequality hasn’t been perceived as a […]
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Education has been perceived as one of the most effective tools to lift people out of poverty, assuring social mobility and giving chances. The premise that knowledge and education are crucial for personal development and the economic performance of a country led to the general assumption in Western countries that there are almost no limits […]
WeiterlesenIf you google “Generation Y” there are 276.000.000 hits, 90.400 sources on Google books appear and you’ll find 3.640.000 videos on Youtube, including TED talks and scientific presentations. Obviously people are interested in this topic, but what are we actually talking about? Generation Y (or Millennials) is the generation born between 1980 and the middle/end […]
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Alice Greschkow 