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 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
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.
Ritu Gupta, Programme Manager at Gender at Work and Co-President of the Society of Gender Professionals, reflects on the changing nature of gender work in a global pandemic.
The relegation of all matters related to women and what is referred to as “families” to religious institutions and religious laws has proven to be at the detriment of women and children. In fact, family laws have proven to be hazardous to women and to gender non-conforming.
Gender at Work associate Kalyani Menon-Sen reflects on the impact of the pandemic on her work.
Aubrey Makhubedu, a member of the National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa, reflects on how her participation in the School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV) project helped her to face her challenges as a school manager.
Gender at Work associate Nosipho Twala reflects on the work of the Ending School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV) initiative.
Khanyisile Mdziniso reflects on how the South African Democratic Teachers Union is responding to School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV).
Mpule Dorcas Sekabate reflects on the challenge of dealing with school-related gender-based violence as a deputy principal.
