
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.


Struggling With Care: Feminist/Queer Insights on COVID-19 as Socio-Ecological Crisis

Genre et développement FAQ

Families in a Changing World

Género y Desarrollo FAQ

Gender and International Affairs

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

Contextually engendering conflict analysis

Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice

Time to Look at Girls: Adolescent Girls Migration and Development

Favorisez l’intégration du genre dans le monde du développement

Caring in Time of Crisis: Visioning a Feminist Future
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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