by Anushna Jha and Mehrin Shah Illustration by Myra Sinha (10 years old). Reproduced with permission. The role of education in advancing gender equality has long been ...more

by David Paternotte (Université libre de Bruxelles) On 13 February 2019, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “on experiencing a backlash in women’s rights and gender equality ...more

by Katharina Hajek Germany, like so many countries in Europe, is experiencing the rise of right-wing conservative and populist forces. The central actor here is the Alternative ...more

by Proma Ray Chaudhury Notwithstanding criticisms, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) schemes as a means of poverty alleviation and social justice in countries with higher levels of socio-economic ...more

by Aude Langlois On the 3rd of June 2015, massive protests shook Argentina to its core, as 200,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires to ...more

A special issue of Feminist Theory edited by Ilana Eloit and Clare Hemmings This special issue was published in December 2019 and there will be a ...more

Encountering Inappropriate and Sexist Behaviours during Fieldwork by Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad “You did not bring the correct letters to request an interview, but if you smile sweetly, ...more

by Niharika Pandit Photo credit: Zahra Amiruddin. Republished with permission for this blogpost. This piece is an attempt to think through the complexities and disjunctures in ...more

by Senel Wanniarachchi   “Your victory Was so complete Some among you Thought to keep A record of Our little lives The clothes we wore Our spoons, our knives”  —Lenard Cohen, Nevermind   I am at the ...more

by Paula Hollstein Barría This article was written during the first days of November 2019, approximately two weeks after the so-called social unrest in Chile had ...more

by Aastha Malhotra and Arshia Roy Recently, there has been an increased emphasis on an individual’s right to privacy, with more and more nations jumping into ...more

by Ghaidaa Motahar There is a consensus that war and conflict bring pain and despair, and simultaneously solicit destructive social change. In Yemen’s conflict, where men ...more

by Manjari Sahay To mark 30 years of ‘intersectionality’ since Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the concept in her article ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex’, ...more

by Asmat Kakar Patriarchy and sociocultural constraints, chronic poverty, limited access to financial institutions and lack of financial control means women in Pakistan face a litany of ...more

by Angana Narula Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference. This year’s ...more

by Maria Brock Awareness of increasing (and increasingly politicised) sentiment against so-called ‘gender ideology’ is spreading, and no longer merely confined to academic and activist circles. ...more