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.
In the fifth blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Mahlet Hailemariam shares her experiences of juggling online work, challenged by unreliable internet connection and power blackouts while caring for her mother.
In the fourth blog post of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Jim Todd questions his own positionality as a white privileged male academic who becomes a mentor to a younger female academic of colour.
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.
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.
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.
What does it take to generate more inclusive, safe, culturally relevant, locally needs-driven AI resources applicable to policies and programs? Marie-Kate Waller, PhD, Medical Anthropologist in Gender and Human Rights in Health, and Gender at Work Associate opens the AI4COVID blog series.
Neuroqueer nonbinary transfemme and research and communications intern at Gender at Work, Atlas C. Portal offers their reflections on the Transgender Day of Visibility
G@W communications manager Aayushi Aggarwal and communications and research intern Atlas Portal speak to Gender at Work Associates Sudarsana Kundu and Carol Miller about showing up for each other and how seeing is believing.
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.
Natasha Harris-Harb, UNGEI’s youth engagement adviser and Aayushi Aggarwal, communications manager at Gender at Work speak with Renata Avila about AI, changing organisational culture and making space for each other.
Natasha Harris-Harb, UNGEI’s youth engagement adviser and Aayushi Aggarwal, communications manager at Gender at Work speak with Nitika Pant about challenging gender roles and fostering intergenerational dialogue, mentorship and leadership
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.
