A Tribute to Dr. K Saradamoni

Anandita GhoshUncategorized

by Dr. Kumkum Roy August 2022 I first met Sardamoni more than forty years ago, in the late 1970s. We were fledgling feminists at that time, and she welcomed us with affection, paying attention to what we thought and said, even, and especially if she disagreed with us, with refreshing openness and candor. We soon realized that she, and others …

A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision: Our new issue

Anandita GhoshUncategorized

G&D Editor Shivani Satija introduces the new issue. We are delighted to present this year’s first double issue of Gender & Development from the global South themed A gender-responsive recovery: Ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision. Collectively edited and shaped by a team of reputed feminist scholars and activists: Fatimah Kelleher, Jayati Ghosh and Valeria Esquivel, this issue …

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CLOSED: Call for Contributions: Volume 31, Issue 1: Women human rights defenders

James HeywoodUncategorized

Women human rights defenders constitute an integral, though often invisible and unrecognised part of social justice movements and efforts. The significant contribution of WHRDs towards mobilising progressive social and political change is increasingly being recognised. They rise against divisive forces, corporations, fundamentalist groups and totalitarian governments, while protecting the rights of the marginalised and vulnerable. There is increasing evidence that …

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#IWD2022 : Eight Must-Read Articles From Gender & Development

Nilanjana BhowmickUncategorized

This year the theme for International Women’s Day is “Break the Bias.” Gender biases – whether conscious or unconscious – are the most persistent threat to women’s social and economic progress, especially in countries of the Global South. The Global Gender Gap Report, 2020, found that at the current rate of progression, we will achieve gender parity in 99.5 years. …

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CLOSED Call for Contributions: Women, Work and the Digital Economy

Nilanjana BhowmickCall for contributions, Gender & Development Journal

In 2016, the digital economy was valued at USD 11.5 trillion, or 15 per cent of the world’s GDP, and it is projected to grow rapidly – but are women and other socio-economically marginalised groups able to reap the benefits of this growth? Globally, there is a glaring gender digital divide, especially in the Global South, that manifests at the …

Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis: Our new issue

Liz CookeUncategorized

G&D Editorial Team member Liz Cooke introduces the new issue. Welcome to this special double issue of Gender & Development, guest edited by Sohela Nazneen and Awino Okech and co-edited by Diya Dutta, Rita Soares, Liz Cooke and Ines Smyth. We are in unprecedented times. The world is facing impending climate disaster, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the global refugee and …

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CLOSED Call for contributions: A Gender-Responsive Recovery: Ensuring Women’s Decent Work and Transforming Care Provision

Liz CookeUncategorized

CALL NOW CLOSED The COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses to its economic fallout have significantly undermined efforts to advance women’s economic justice. One year into the pandemic, it is now widely recognized that the pandemic, associated lockdowns and other containment measures have disproportionately impacted women, especially those experiencing other intersecting inequalities on the basis of race, class, gender identity, and …

Podcast: Gender and Health

Liz CookeUncategorized

In our latest podcast, Gender & Development’s Liz Cooke is joined by the guest editors of our March 2021 issue, which focuses on Health. Listen in to find out why a gender lens is important when considering health matters, and to learn about health inequities, COVID-19 and its gendered impact, and building back better after the pandemic. Taking part are: …

Guest editing the Health issue – some reflections

Liz CookeUncategorized

We are thrilled to have had three gender and health specialists – Janice Cooper, Renu Khanna and Sally Theobald – joining us to guest edit the Health issue of G&D. Here, Janice, who is Senior Project Adviser for the Liberia Mental Health Initiative at The Carter Center, shares her thoughts on the experience. When I agreed to join a team …

The ‘Visual Minutes’ of our new Health issue

Liz CookeUncategorized

As we launch our March 2021 issue on Health, we’re delighted to be sharing with you these ‘Visual Minutes’. Also known as a ‘graphic recording’, the minutes are a visual representation of some of the key themes and topics covered in the Health issue of the journal. We hope they inspire you to take a look at what’s inside this …