Power Relations: What does this mean?
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Power and Criticism of Power
💡 Guiding Questions:
What is power? Why is it often viewed negatively?
How can the power relationship and the power gap between the genders be meaningfully described?
What inspiration does the critique of patriarchy offer for this?
CHAPTER 2: The Gender Power Gap Across Europe
Questions to reflect on
In which countries of the European Union is the gender power gap still large, in which countries has a certain balance already been achieved? How do you explain the differences?
How does the development of the gender pay gap present itself in your country? What progress has been made toward closing the differences? To what extent is there still a need for change?
The public debates currently conducted seem to be characterized by contrasts. This also concerns questions of gender justice. Nevertheless, successes in the past have been achieved above all through public actions, campaigns, and discussions. One example of this is the right to abortion. When you think of the word “gender justice”: which aspect is most important to you right now? How should it be discussed publicly?
CHAPTER 3: Not Afraid to Take a Chance – Ways to Power
Questions to reflect on
What can the public sphere achieve in order to attain more gender justice?
What makes it easier for you to grow into positions of power?
What inner barriers do you observe in yourself?
What is Power? | Michel Foucault, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTJNOEvCQFY, 2022
Chomsky-Foucault debate on Power vs Justice (1971), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVQ3l5P0A4, 2021
How to understand Power — Eric Liu, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Eutci7ack&t=64s, 2015
What does People Power mean to you?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPR5WLLqzM, 2017
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