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Gender, power and progress: How norms change

December 16, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

This report is about gender norms – the implicit informal rules about appropriate behaviour for people of different genders – that most people accept and follow. It is about the ways in which gender equality, women’s and girls’ rights and the norms that shape the ability to claim those rights, have progressed over time. It […]

Building back equal: girls back to school guide

December 16, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

This guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalised girls. It considers four dimensions of school closures, highlighted in the diagram below, covering learning; health, […]

COVID-19 and gender research in low- and middle-income countries

October 29, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Research on COVID-19 and the social, economic and health ramifications of this pandemic is rapidly emerging from many disciplines. Concerns about losses to gender equality and the gendered impacts of the pandemic have been raised from its early stages, and research is increasingly beginning to consider the role gender plays in these relationships. Gendered impacts […]

Gender and COVID-19 in Africa

October 7, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

In Africa, as in other settings pandemics and their resultant effects are not gender blind and have the potential to exponentially magnify existing gender inequalities and the plight of other vulnerable populations; such as those with disabilities, refugees, and internally displaced persons. This is especially the case for less-resourced countries where limited social protection measures […]

Building back equal: girls back to school guide

September 16, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education in history. Most governments around the world have temporarily closed schools and other learning spaces in recent months in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. At the peak of the pandemic in April 2020, these nationwide closures impacted more than 1.5 billion […]

Addressing the gender dimensions of school closures

September 16, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Experience tells us that public health outbreaks have distinct gendered impacts, and that preparednessand response efforts must understand the gender dimensions of these crises to avert widening inequalities and seize opportunities to advance gender equality. The COVID-19 pandemic is no different. Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to […]