
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.


Research Frontiers in Gender and Sustainable Peace

Gender Theory in Practice

Reflections on Decolonising the Transnational Feminist Analytic

Fair Play: Gender Balance at Home and at Work

Women Businesses in Developing Countries

Celebrating International Women’s Day

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

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

The health workforce: a good investment

Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child
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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