Research provides evidence that cisgender children (children who identify as a boy or a girl according to their assigned sex at birth) show clear patterns of gender development. By age three, they ...

The relationship between sex, gender, gender identity, and psychological (dis-)comfort with gender typicality has increasingly become a topic of interest ...

For several decades, gender equality has been a central pillar of global development and international aid, shaping how development challenges are framed, how programs are designed, and how success is ...

The link between women’s empowerment and economic growth is well established. When women are economically empowered, they invest more in their families, creating a cycle of positive outcomes that ...

Women face multiple barriers during their entire life, resulting in gender gaps in education, skills, labor force participation, wages, wealth, and agency. Aligned with SDG 5's objective of achieving ...

The Department of Human Development and Social Affairs Organises a High-Level Dialogue on the Future of Women and Youth in the Region ...

The ECOWAS Commission has called for bold electoral reforms across West Africa to ensure equal political participation of women and young people, as the regional body targets 50/50 gender parity in el ...