The month of March is all about women and diversity, with International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 and Geneva’s Gender Equality Week from March 4 to 14. Their mission is to raise awareness and actively advocate for a more inclusive and gender equitable world.
The theme for International Women’s Day 2025 is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” , and the theme for Geneva’s Equality Week 2025 is “The Future is Now!” – both rallying cries in difficult times for women and gender minorities.
What better way to inspire inclusion than through reading?
Our Gender collection was created in 2003. It is unique in Switzerland, and its strength is its visibility: in addition to dedicated call numbers, documents dealing with a gender perspective are also integrated into all the collections of the Library. The Library invites visitors to browse our collections in the following categories:
- 305.3 Gender
- 305.31 Men
- 305.4 Women
- 305.42 Feminism
- 331.4 Women’s work
- 342.701 Women’s rights
- 371.822 Education of women
- 613.99 Women’s health
- 7.0 DVDs on Gender
At the Institute
- On March 24, join the Feminist Collective and the Gender Centre for a conference on “Feminist Rage in Social Movements: Reclaiming Emotions, Reclaiming Agency” (A2, 18:00-19:30)
- The Geneva Graduate Institute has adopted a Gender Equality Plan 2025-2028.
- You can also check the Institute’s Gender, Sexuality and decolonization resource page…
- … and the Gender, Class, Race & Intersectionality research project.
Gender Data Sources
- Albu, Daniela. “Report” Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2023″(UN Women, UN DESA, 2023).” Drepturile Omului (2023): 94.
- Explore women’s activism from generations past and present : timeline
Finally, don’t forget to take a look at the programme for Equality Week organised by the City of Geneva, on the theme “Le Futur, c’est Maintenant !”
Cover picture: “You Belong”, picture by Tim Mossholder (Unsplash license)
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