Our Reflections

At Gender at Work, we are committed to reflection as both a political and pedagogical act, using it to reveal insights, challenge assumptions, and adapt our practices. Our approach to learning is emergent: shaped by context, grounded in feminist values and open to the unknown. We see learning as both a method and a muscle: something strengthened through practice, vulnerability and shared reflection.

From Kitchen to Gram Sabha: The Netri Movement and the Power Up! Journey in India

The third story in our special series on the Power Up! programme (2021–2025) highlights how feminist organising takes root in rural India; focusing on the Netri movement, where women come together to build leadership, engage in village governance, and claim their rights to land and resources. It traces how women, often navigating exclusion within both households and public institutions, are organising collectively; strengthening their voices, asserting their place in decision-making spaces, and building pathways to dignity, autonomy, and collective power.

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.

Organising from the Ground Up: How Women Food Workers Built Collective Power in South Africa 

As part of a special series following the close of the Power Up! programme (2021-2025), this story highlights how women food handlers in South Africa, supported by Gender at Work and the Labour Research Service, are organising to transform precarious work into collective power. It traces their journey from isolation to leadership; reclaiming the value of care work, strengthening their voices, and advancing more just and dignified conditions for women workers.

Feminist School: a conversation with Aayushi Aggarwal and Khanysa Mabyeka

Two of the many minds and hearts behind the Feminist School – Aayushi Aggarwal and Khanysa Mabyeka, both inspiring feminists and Associates at Gender at Work – share about the story of FS, what excites them about being involved in it, their learnings and experiences in shaping its curriculum, the challenges they encountered along the way as facilitators, and much more.