{"id":135503,"date":"2022-02-02T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=135503"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:06","slug":"we-cant-take-gender-equality-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/02\/we-cant-take-gender-equality-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can\u2019t take gender equality for granted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samira van Bohemen is fascinated by the fact that people give meaning to everything they see, do and are. In Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian novel The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, women are second-rate citizens, purely because they are women. \u201cThe story is a nightmare, but one that is based on actual inequalities in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Samira van Bohemen about The Handmaid's Tale: \u201cIt is a dystopian story, but it is inspired by totalitarian societies that existed. And exist.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Sociologist of culture Samira van Bohemen specialises in differences between the genders. Ever since she embarked on her PhD research, she has sought to answer the question as to what it means to be a man, woman or anything in between. She was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on the Red Hat Society, a movement of women aged 50 and beyond who celebrate life, dressed in purple and wearing red hats. Her decision to specialise in gender identities was an accidental one, rather than a course of action she always intended to follow. \u201cIt just happened that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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