AmsterDames: Inspiring Women in the Netherlands ... An English Feminist Podcast in Amsterdam

When it comes to money and finance, women often end up with the short end of the stick. Or they are short-changed, if you will. Because women are facing financial obstacles that men are not. The gender pay gap is just one example of that. Reason enough for women to start taking care of their finances and to work toward

We all live in the same world, but at the same time we don’t. We might call a certain place or a certain community our home, but at the same time, it can be an entire different universe from the life other people are living. Some communities, religious or not, actively isolate their members. Sometimes it is the civil s

Every eight days. Every eight days, a woman in the Netherlands is killed by her partner or her ex-partner. Every eight days, in this country, there is a femicide. And until the Netherlands manage to bring structural change on the way. It is going to continue to happen. Every eight days.   Tessel ten Zweege is an activi

They are evil, they are ugly and we should all be afraid of them. We have learned that from fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel.  But what if witches were never the bad ones? What if they were in fact the victims of the story? Jente Posthuma and Bregje Hofstede have been working on the topic of witches and witch trials

Do you want to become a freelancer in the Netherlands? But you feel overwhelmed by the paperwork of the registration, you have no idea of how to do your tax report as a Dutch freelancer, you don’t know where to start and you don’t know what to do and how? And, what is life as a freelancer like? How many hours will you

In this episode, we are going to break two taboos. This is not me saying this, this is what my guest said. Lex van Delft is the founder of de stoute vrouw, the naughty woman, a lesbian escort service agency. That obviously includes sex work and female sexuality which is still an issue for some people or at least someth