Joanne Sandler is the Ad Interim Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She guides efforts to implement rights- and results-based programmes in support of ...

Contemporary relationships are moving away from rigid gender role models (the man as the provider, the woman as the caregiver) to embrace co-responsibility. This transition, though sometimes ...

Mainstream institutions have only begun to address issues in Gender and Development since the 1970s, and it is time to evaluate how sustainable the progress in this field has been. In this essay, I ...

From the moment they’re born (and even before), children have gender expectations forced upon them from every direction. While a sense of gender identity is a healthy part of development, feeling ...

Lindsey has 20 years of experience in human resources and currently is Director of People & Culture for Westchester Country Club in Rye, NY. Women climbing, holding hands Research consistently ...

The feminization of labor migration is a 21st century phenomenon. Though not often center stage of migration policy and debate, migrant women have become powerful agents of change as well key actors ...

For those who haven’t entrenched themselves as deeply into the world of the humanities as I have, taking so many HDFS and WGSS courses that this all becomes a repetitive review each semester, gender ...

This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...

Lack of access to sanitation and hygiene facilities and safe drinking water disproportionately impacts women. The United Nations highlights three main challenges that women face in this space. Second, ...