
More than 20 professors, researchers and students focus their work around SDG 5 at the Graduate Institute. This work entails consultancy work for UN Women, research projects, such as the DEMETER project on Gender, Land and the Rights to Food. We additionally offer a variety of academic and executive education courses. The Gender Centre serves as a research hub on gender at the Graduate Institute.


What is Gender and Diversity Today?

#MeToo and the aid sector: where do we go from here?

Anti-Gender Movements

Gender equality as a resource for peace

Gender Equality: Do what we say, not what we do

Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm

Gendered Peace in Context

AI & Equality – Human Rights Toolbox

Patriarchy, Gender and Peace

African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts

Women’s Situation Rooms
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View moreGoal 5 highlights that gender inequality persists worldwide, depriving women and girls of their basic rights and opportunities. “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will require more vigorous efforts, including legal frameworks, to counter deeply rooted gender-based discrimination that often results from patriarchal attitudes and related social norms” as put by the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. Read more about Goal 5