
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.


Women’s Rights in Latin America

Emergencies in Kenya: Gaps in Gender Mainstreaming

The Gender Responsiveness of Social Marketing Interventions Focused on Neglected Tropical Diseases

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

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Women’s Situation Rooms

‘Peace starts in the home’: gender-transformative peacebuilding in Colombia

Seeing Women’s Labor: The Problem of Domestic Work at the ILO

Contact Tracing Apps: Extra Risks for Women and Marginalized Groups

WHS 2017: Equitable Access to Universal Health Coverage & Care

Beyond Formal Participation: Intersectionality by Design
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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