Around the globe, local leaders and communities are stepping up to combat gender inequities and restrictive gender norms that impact health and well-being. From policies that advance pay equity, improve workplace conditions, reduce gender-based violence, and more, we in the United States have much to learn from the world. That's why the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Evidence for Action (E4A)...
Course information The online learning we will cover the basic concepts and key international gender equality frameworks as well as the ILO decent work agenda. We will provide tools to analyse gender issues in various settings and the use of gender planning in all facets of your work. We will review the various forms of resistance and strategies to overcome...
Beginning July 26, Girl Up Edinburgh is running a month-long webinar series entitled 'Exploring COVID-19's Intersectional Impact on Women and Girls Worldwide'. The first panel on July 29 at 1 pm EST/6 pm BST will discuss the Shadow Pandemic with experts and policymakers. Beginning with a discussion about gender-based violence (GBV) before COVID-19, the panel will delve deeply into the...
The GE Academy team is glad to welcome you in its first Distributed Open Collaborative Course! This highly interactive online learning programme aims at condensing in an online format the best available knowledge and expertise on Gender Equality in Research and Innovation stemming from the GE Academy partners and an extended network of contributing nodes and projects from across Europe...
The Department of Gender and Sexualities at the University of Malta is organising a free webinar on Women and COVID. The main objective of this webinar is to bring together researchers located in different countries to discuss how COVID-19 has affected women. The aim of this discussion is to delineate the impact the first wave has had on women’s lives...
Registration is open! WHY: The webinar “ Applying intersectional perspectives in research and innovation - The cases of urban cycling and artificial intelligence” aims at helping in understanding the concept of intersectionality as applied to research and innovation processes and sensitising about the importance of designing research and innovation in an intersectional perspective, as well as about the pitfalls of...
Registration is open! WHY: The webinar “ Intersectionality in institutional change processes in academic organisations” aims at introducing the concept of intersectionality, its origins and its relevance to institutional chang and highlighting key differences between intersectionality, multiple discrimination and diversity perspectives. Participants will get the chance to learn about methodological challenges to the application of intersectional approaches to institutional change...
The 2018 Women in Tech Index has ranked Portugal one of the best countries for women pursuing a career in technology. We have invited Secretary of State of Citizenship and Equality, Rosa Monteiro; Microsoft Portugal CFO, Rita Piçarra; Coordinator of the Gender Balance Project at Instituto Técnico de Lisboa, Helena Geirinhas; and the founder of Portuguese Women in Tech, Inês...
Portugal is considered one of the top 10 countries for women in business by the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs 2019 and we want to discover why, so we have invited two successful entrepreneurs: Fabiana Clemente co-founder and CDO of YData, a company that offers a data privacy automated software solution, and Carolina Amorim, co-founder and CEO of EmotAI, a...
Registration is open! WHY: The webinar “ Doing research on security and crisis situations with gender lenses: a case study on Integrating Sex and Gender in Research Content” aims at presenting about what the sex and gender dimension in different research disciplines may entail. Participants will get knowledge about how the gender dimension can be included in research on peace...
Only 22 Days untill the start of WomenTech Virtual Global Conference 10-12th June 2020!! Join now and Save the Date!! https://www.womentech.net/women-tech-conference?join=NzU4Nw== WomenTech has distributed out the first batch of 10000 FREE passes to women, minorities, and allies in tech possible by our partners Twitter, Samsung Electronics, OLX Group, Charles Schwab,VMware, Avanade, and many more. JOIN THE #100KCHALLENGE Join now the...
A participatory online training coming in three parts is organised by GE Academy, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Get familiar with the basic concepts of a Gender Equality Plan and its main stages of measures. Sensitise about key problems at stake regarding gender in Research and Innovation and raise awareness about the importance of...
