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.
The Gender Centre’s EQUALS-EU Project: Bridging the Digital Gender Divide
The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda
Gendering transitional justice: a racialised construction of victimhood in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Patriarchy, Gender and Peace
Fair Play: Gender Balance at Home and at Work
Migration and Labor Market Inequality: The Role of Skills, Gender and Trade
Jobs that Work for Women. How Does The Rural Labour Market Shape Gender Relations?
The Refugee Status Determination of Transgender Asylum-Seekers: a Queer Critique.
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries
Binary Gendering as a Facilitator of Inequality in the Law
Exploring privilege through feminist gender training
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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