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.
Perceptions of Power: Closing the Gender Gap in the Digital Sphere
#MeToo and the aid sector: where do we go from here?
Performative technologies: agricultural research for development and gender
Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas
To Solve or Not To Solve? That is the Question. Critical Approaches to Advancing and Innovating for Gender Equity and Digital Inclusion
Women Power, Politics, and the Pandemic: Celebrating women’s leadership
Silenced and (sur)Veiled: Inscribing Identity on the Female Migrant Body
The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda
Gender expertise in global governance contesting the boundaries of a field
How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires
Anthropological Perspectives on Reproductive Politics in the 21st Century
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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