
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.


Exploring privilege through feminist gender training

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance

‘Peace is in our hands’. Women take the lead to rebuild trust

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

Fair Play: Gender Balance at Home and at Work

“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

Women’s Situation Rooms

Advanced Development Macroeconomics: Empirical Research

Género y Desarrollo FAQ
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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