
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.


Women’s Voices in the Media: Changing the World

The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports

Families in a Changing World: Policies to Promote Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments

“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care

Families in a Changing World

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia

Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Caring in Time of Crisis: Visioning a Feminist Future

Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential
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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