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.

Cook, Clean, Plan: A case for more gender-responsive policymaking

In the third blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Michelle Mbuthia discusses her personal experience of gender inequality and unfair distribution of domestic labor during the Christmas season in Kenya, and the need for candid discussions and collective efforts to challenge and change traditional gender norms and create a more equal society.

Are women programmed to think less and do more?

In the second blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Meghan Malaatjie reflects on the gender norms she learned in childhood, her personal experiences with these norms, and the impact on her career, and aspirations to address gender inequalities as a public health professional.

Can AI Have Its Cake and Eat It? Reducing Bias in AI Models May Not Always Be Desirable

In the first blog in the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Amelia Taylor, a Senior Lecturer in AI at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences and researcher with the INSPIRE PEACH project under AI4COVID, raises the ethical dilemmas of trying to create unbiased and representative algorithms of women and men impacted by epidemics.

A calling to do the work

Mitchel Ondili, Research Assistant at The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), Nairobi, Kenya, reflects on her engagement in a Gender at Work’s action learning process in the context of our work with IDRC Cyber Policy Centres.

Feminists Leading Change: Kelsie Joseph

Natasha Harris-Harb, UNGEI’s youth engagement adviser and Aayushi Aggarwal, communications manager at Gender at Work speak with Kelsie Joseph, a young feminist activist leading the change in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in Trinidad and Tobago.

Feminists Leading Change: Lina Abou-Habib

Natasha Harris-Harb, UNGEI’s youth engagement adviser and Aayushi Aggarwal, communications manager at Gender at Work speak with Lina Abou-Habib about the rupture between intergenerational conversations, especially in the Middle East and North Africa.