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.
Belly of the Beast
DEMETER Gender, Land and the Right to Food
The (Gendered) Violence among Us
Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil
The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement
“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care
Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance
Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A
Gendering Survival from the Margins
Families in a Changing World
Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity during the Lebanese Civil War
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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