Six ways to combat the backlash against gender equality
Global progress on gender equality is under threat, and rights are being eroded amid a rising onslaught of repression. Our report identifies six ways to push back.
Read more: Six ways to build solidarities for gender justice
Our report traces progress made in recent decades towards gender equality, shows the unprecedented backlash currently faced by activists, and outlines some of the ways in which that feminists and LGBTQI+ groups can resist this backlash.
Read the reportWatch our International Women’s Day events
Making gains for gender justice: Lessons from women’s movements in South Asia
Countering Backlash: Towards a feminist future
Book talk with Jessica Horn, author of African feminist praxis: Cartographies of liberatory worldmaking
Tuesday 11 March
Listen to our podcast
Strategies for building solidarities for gender justice with IDS Researcher Deepta Chopra.
Study with us
IDS has been at the cutting edge of debates on gender and development for the last 50 years, and our MA in Gender and Development was one of the first in the world. Our teaching challenges ideas about gender, with students benefiting from convenors’ research expertise and relationships with global partners.
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Get in touch if you’d like to collaborate on new research initiatives or improve your organisation’s use of evidence about gender justice.
Our work on backlash and struggles
With our partners, IDS is working to investigate the forces that are acting to reverse gains made for women’s rights, and researching how women’s power struggles succeed in retaining power. Learn more about our two initiatives:
IDS contributions to gender and development
Over 50 years, IDS and our partners have played a role in the movement towards gender equality. Click on the graphic to find out more.
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