
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.


Early View Article – Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritization of the gender goal is essential

‘Yo crucé el Atlantico sola’: Cuban migrant women negotiating gendered autonomy in Spain

The “Activist Client” : How Poor Voters Shape Democracy and Accountability in Urban India

Women and Media: Unlocking Gender Equality

Gendering transitional justice: a racialised construction of victimhood in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Gender and International Affairs

Public Policy, Economic Development and Gender

Remeasuring Self and Society after Empire: The Human Sciences in Decolonization

Mapping ‘Care Chains’ in Export Horticulture in Senegal: Why does it matter to understand Labour Migration and Social Reproduction?

Patriarchy, Gender and Peace

“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care
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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