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.
How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires
2020 Geneva Gender Debate
Time to Look at Girls: Adolescent Girls Migration and Development
A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child
The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement
The health workforce: a good investment
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Gender equality as a resource for peace
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries
The “Activist Client” : How Poor Voters Shape Democracy and Accountability in Urban India
Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
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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