our mission
gender equality isn’t a woman’s issue. it’s a human issue.
Gender at Work envisions a world that values and respects women’s human rights and cultures of equality, especially gender equality. We understand that to change systems of power that hold inequality in place, relationships between people, institutions and organizations have to shift.
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Episode 19: Caring in a Post Covid World
In a passionate and wide-ranging conversation, Kumi Naidoo and Aruna Rao explore hope, fear, Black Lives Matter, feminist principles, intersectionality and structural change. They ask whether the institutions that were set up to protect us, like the police, and to enable social change, such as social services, the UN, and international development organizations, have failed us and whether we should keep trying to change them from the inside or tear them down and start again. ...
Episode 18: Dismantling Patriarchy – Close Encounters and Imperfect Strategies
Look around you and you’ll find many conversations about reimagining and transforming how we live and work – from how we enable the plant to thrive, to new ways of envisioning economics. And in all kinds of organizations, we are seeing real challenges to what was previously unchecked - abusive power dynamics, toxic work environments, sexual harassment, racism, and discrimination against all kinds of people who don’t fit what was considered ‘the norm’. In this episode – the first in...
Episode 17: Intergenerational Conversations on Organizing for Gender Equality
On the eve of the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) in Paris, Aruna Rao and Joanne Sandler – veterans of the 1995 Beijing conference – have an intergenerational talk with three young activists: Priya Kvam and Amani Jui from Breakthrough US and Natalia Escruceria Price, an independent consultant formerly with JASS. Our exchange with these young activists highlights ...
“Feminist futures is a world in the making; a world of adventure and imagination; a world of promise where everyone can realize their potential and live in harmony.”
Yaba Bodoe
This meeting hosted by the UN Feminist Network, Gender at Work and the Feminist UN Campaign aims to bring together feminists from the UN and NGOs, to create a space for sharing and strategising on how to ensure the changes that are needed in our institution.
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mission & history
How it all began
In 1999, three impassioned feminists – Aruna Rao, David Kelleher and Rieky Stuart – wrote Gender at Work: Organizational Change for Equality, a book that laid the seeds for this international collaborative. Gender at Work was founded in 2001 by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, now UN Women), and Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP). It was established as a non-profit in 2003.
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mission & history
Founded by AWID, CIVICUS, UN Women & WLP
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mission & history
Registered as a Non-Profit Organization in the US
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Gender Action Learning Program Launched in India
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Registered as a Non-Profit Organization in Canada
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Registered as a Non-Profit Trust in India
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Established Gender at Work Private Limited in India
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where we're headed
What we hope to achieve by 2020
The work that we do now is crucial for the feminist future we hope to see by 2020. We are committed to expanding our work and growing our network so that more change agents around the world will be equipped with the necessary strategies to untangle deep structures that discriminate against women. In addition, we strive to increase the number of organizations that recognize the importance of changing deep structures of discrimination and informal norms in order to end discrimination against women and create cultures of equality.
