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.
Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance
The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda
Applying Decolonial Critique and Praxis to Publishing
Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil
The Gender Responsiveness of Social Marketing Interventions Focused on Neglected Tropical Diseases
“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care
Women Businesses in Developing Countries
African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts
Breaking the Odds: History of women leadership in international organisations
From the Centre to the Margins and Back Again: Women in Agriculture at the ILO
Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding
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Goal 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