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 14: Letsema-5 years of changing community norms through dialogue
How do you break up violent ways of behaving and the exercise of power over? How do change what is considered normal? How do you create a new culture that values others no matter how different they are? A community in Gauteng, South Africa, supported by Gender at Work and the Labor Research Service, launched an initiative called Letsema 5 years ago to end gender based violence in their community. ...
Claiming spaces under lockdown
This blog series titled, ‘One Day in the Life of’ is one of our ways to reflect and to bring to you and to us, voices and experiences of people, from different parts of the world....
work from home, but how?
This blog series titled, ‘One Day in the Life of’ is one of our ways to reflect and to bring to you and to us, voices and experiences of people, from different parts of the world....
“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
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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.
