Strategies of feminist bureaucrats: united nations experiences
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights and gender equality specialists in the United Nations as analysed from a practitioner perspective. Part 1 by Joanne Sandler […]
Gender and development
Backlash against women’s rights and gender equality in development is ubiquitous and thriving. A startling example is the case of Kathryn Bolkovac, the now famous ‘Whistleblower’, who was fired by the United […]
Thank you: women’s centre for legal assistance and counseling
Our deep appreciation goes to the leadership and staff of WCLAC (and to the FLOW Fund/Netherlands that supported us) for our work with you over the past year. Together, we […]
Inclusion and equity: holding the mirror up to ourselves
Civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world are seen as playing a pivotal role in spotlighting inequities and systemic disadvantage on the basis of multiple and intersecting dimensions, in addressing discrimination in […]
Challenging patriarchy to build workplace gender equality
If progress for gender equality and non-discrimination were measured in legal and policy advances, the momentum over the past 20 years would be record-breaking. And yet, why do so many […]
Transforming cultures of violence: ploughing the soil, planting the seeds of new social norms
In September 2013, the South African Gender at Work (G@W) team initiated a feminist inspired social change process to experiment with the possibility of using an approach that emphasises dialogue […]
feminist leadership practice: reflections from the south african g@w experience
This paper reflects on Gender at Work’s recent South African experience 2 in two different contexts to concretely illustrate in praxis, core principles of transformational feminist leadership. We explore what […]
conversations with women on leadership and social transformation
The conversations with eighteen outstanding women leaders that follow elucidate women’s visions, their perspectives on coalition building and leadership, and fundamental questions on how to challenge power and accountability.1 In […]
Becoming the change you want to see in the world
Gandhi’s famous quote “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” has inspired the title of this chapter. He believed that advocates of social change need […]
Action, learning and gender in mozambique: a pause
What happened in the Gender Action Learning (GAL) can be understood as a pause. In music, a pause means the sound of silence, a time between notes. In Mozambique, the […]
