
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.


Gender politics of and for Kayambi women: house and chakra as public spaces

Anti-Gender Movements

Multinational corporations as partners for SDG implementation: evolution from ‘doing no harm’ to ‘doing good’

The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports

Conversations with Naila Kabeer. Reversed Realities and Feminist Economic Strategies for Today’s World

The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement

Families in a Changing World

Reflections on Decolonising the Transnational Feminist Analytic

Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas

Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space

Gender training a transformative tool for gender equality
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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