
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.


Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance

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

“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

Genre et Développement

Students Present “Blue Peace” Project at World Conservation Congress

La rebelión de las flores

What Does the New Development Agenda Mean for Women and Girls?

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Women’s Situation Rooms
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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