Transforming organisations
We guide and accompany organisations and institutions in their efforts to shift deep-rooted power dynamics, cultures, and norms, making gender equity and inclusion part of everyday practice—not just policy.
Building Cultures of Equity and Inclusion
For more than 20 years, Gender at Work has supported individuals and institutions to challenge, dismantle and transform the deep structures that perpetuate inequality and exclusion—and to build cultures of equity and inclusion in their place.
Gender at Work is a global feminist knowledge and action network. Together, we are a collective force for positive systemic change.
Nurturing leadership
We cultivate transformative, inclusive, feminist leadership that recognises intersectional challenges and centres radical love, care, reflection, and collective accountability across systems and sectors.
Evaluating change
We design and use feminist approaches to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (M.E.A.L.) to reveal what’s often invisible, valuing the process as well short and long-term impact.
Building partnerships
We co-create relationships rooted in trust and solidarity—with allies, activists, funders, movements and institutions—collaborating on shared goals of systemic change and creating a more just and inclusive world.
Cultivating knowledge
We research, document, and reflect on lived experience, collective learning and practice to build and share feminist knowledge that travels across contexts and communities.
Supporting movements
We stand alongside feminist movements for social justice, providing tools, creative spaces and collective strategising, to help sustain feminist organising and resist backlash.
How we approach our work
We work across sectors and disciplines, at several levels—from local civil society organisations to regional, international and UN partnerships—combining organisational development, popular education, anti-oppression and feminist approaches. Our work combines our own ongoing learning with building theory, putting theory into practice, and sharing knowledge and learning.
Our Framework
The Gender at Work Framework highlights the relationships between gender equality, organisational change and the power dynamics within institutions and communities. The Framework can be used to uncover opportunities and barriers to gender equality, to map a strategy for change, and to guide evaluative efforts to mark progress.
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“It’s a useful tool to help you understand where you may need to look at incorporating additional measures, or supplementing your research, to ensure a holistic approach.”Rowan Harvey, OXFAM Intermón
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The number of organisations across multiple sectors and levels that have undertaken complex organisational and programming change processes with our support
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The number of associates across 16 countries who contribute to our work with their deep expertise in organisational change, participatory processes and feminist measuring and evaluation
Feminist School
Co-created by Gender at Work and the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), Feminist School is a dynamic and immersive learning experience with the goal of challenging, disrupting and dismantling global power inequalities.
PowerUp!
Power Up! exists to catalyse the leadership and voice of womxn in all their diversity. As a Consortium of womxn’s rights organisations, our goal is to actively support womxn-led collectives, movements, and organisations in their efforts to challenge and dismantle oppressive structures of power.
The Power of Storytelling: Understanding Social Norm Change in Nepal
Using storytelling as an entry point to inform research, programming and action, this five-year initiative aims to understand pathways and factors that lead to changes in social norms, which in turn can influence transformative shifts towards gender equality and social inclusion.
What we’re learning
At Gender at Work, we recognise that learning is not linear—it’s reflexive, relational and emergent.
Existing, Inventing, Creating One’s Own World: Being a Queer Woman in Africa
The second story in our special series on the Power Up! programme (2021–2025) highlights how feminist organising takes shape across contexts; focusing on our partners in Africa who created spaces for women's healing, creativity, leadership, and political participation. It traces how queer women, often facing erasure and exclusion, are reclaiming their bodies, voices, and resources; building confidence, asserting their rights, and crafting new pathways to autonomy and collective power.
Exister, inventer, créer son monde : être une femme queer en Afrique
Le deuxième article de notre série spéciale sur le programme Power Up! (2021–2025) souligne la manière dont l’action féministe prend forme dans différents contextes en mettant en lumière comment nos partenaires en Afrique ont créé des espaces de guérison, de créativité, de leadership et de participation politique pour les femmes. Il retrace la manière dont des femmes queer, souvent confrontées à l’effacement et à l’exclusion, se réapproprient leurs corps, leurs voix et leurs ressources ; renforcent leur confiance, revendiquent leurs droits et tracent de nouvelles voies vers l’autonomie et le pouvoir collectif.
Power Up! consortium publishes the Feminist Economic Justice Toolkit
The existing economic system is not working! It’s unequal, unjust, and extractive. This new popular education resource from the Power Up! consortium provides practical guides for discussions and activities aimed at understanding and challenging economic injustices, developing and sharing feminist alternatives and visions.
Empowering changemakers for gender justice and social transformation: A recap of the Feminist School journey
Various initiatives and commitments have been made over the years in the global pursuit of gender equality. From CEDAW to SDGs, G7 Summits to Generation Equality Forum, the transformative agenda has resonated across numerous platforms. The Feminist School (FS) project emerged as a re-energising initiative amidst the pandemic, in 2021, in response to an education sector still grappling with patriarchal norms and discriminatory practices that hinder the full potential of learners of all genders.
WEAVE: Indian women’s movements and struggles against violence
Documenting women’s movements against violence and their impacts on policies
Power Up! Reports
All the reports, stories and resources from our project, Power Up!