19th Gender Summit - Global for SDGs

In September 2019, the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, launched the Decade of Action plan to accelerate delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. He urged all actors to dramatically increase the pace and scale of SDG implementation efforts. The UN 2020 SDG Progress Report has pointed to a number of problems in achieving all SDGs, referring specifically to SDG 5, the report states that: “the promise of a world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed, remains unfulfilled”. The Gender Summit community’s concerns that the implementation of the UN SDG agenda might fail women, society and environment if the role of gender was restricted to the issues of empowerment and human rights,  was shaped during the 6th Gender Summit – Asia Pacific in Seoul, in August 2015, and expanded later during the 10 Gender Summit – Asia Pacific in Tokyo. Gender knowledge (standing for both biological and socio-cultural aspects) can greatly help verify claims of equality in SDG policies and interventions, as well as pinpoint the sources and consequences of disparities in outcomes for women and men.  The objective of GS19 is to involve expert in gender-SDG areas to identify gender knowledge that can be applied already and the knowledge that is still missing but is necessary to accelerate progress across all SDGs during the Decade of Action, ensuring that the improvement made will benefit women and men equally.

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Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Theme 6 Introduction

Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

This session presents latest advances in research methods to understand when, why and how biological (sex) and socio-cultural (gender) characteristics of studied populations, and in their ecological contexts, impact on research results and differentiate quality of research outcomes for women/females and men/males.
Moderator Introducing Theme 6: 6-0 Martina Schraudner, Board Member at acatech, Professor at Fraunhofer and at Technical University Berlin, Germany

  • 6-1 Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, Vice President, Research Intelligence, Global Strategic Networks, Elsevier, USA
    New analysis of the literature on SDGs to identify across which SDGs (beyond SDG5) gender research is being incorporated and where gaps may still exist
  • 6-2 Jenny Graves, VC's Fellow & Distinguished Professor, Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe U, Australia
    Genetic studies on the differences between the sexes and what they mean for gender research and gender equity
  • 6-3 Londa Schiebinger, Professor, History of Science, Stanford U, and Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
    Intersectional perspectives in digitalisation of science and society
  • 6-4 Katrin Groth on behalf of the INGER study group, Scientist, German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
    Integrating sex/gender methods into human biomonitoring studies
  • 6-5 Shirin Heidari, Senior Fellow in Residence at the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and Chair and President of GENDRO, Switzerland
    Advancing best practice for incorporation of gender analysis in health research
  • 6-6 Sun-Young Rieh, Professor, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Gender Issues in Community Design for Ageing in Place
Total Time
6+ hours
Complete
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Language
  • English

What you will learn

7 modules
10 m
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Theme 6 Introduction

Prof Schraudner explains that when achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls we need to look far beyond increasing their representation.
1 h
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Gender Issues in Community Design for Ageing in Place

Prof Rieh explains how to design cities that are senior and gender friendly. Senior women in Korea form the biggest proportion of citizens but also the poorest.
1 h
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

New analysis of the literature on SDGs to identify across which SDGs (beyond SDG5) gender research is being incorporated and where gaps may still exist

Dr Falk-Krzesinski explains the new analysis of how much of the available research on SDGs also includes considerations of gender dimension.
1 h
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Advancing best practice for incorporation of gender analysis in health research

Dr Heidari explains why it is essential to incorporate methods of sex/gender analysis into research design and communication and how different agencies and actors: regulatory agencies, research fun
1 h
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Integrating sex/gender methods into human biomonitoring studies

Dr Groth reports on the efforts of the INGER project to create alternative definitions and representations of gender going beyond the binary evaluation of the sex assigned at birth to establish a m
1 h
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Intersectional perspectives in digitalisation of science and society

Prof Schiebinger explains the efforts to remove and prevent gender and other types of bias in research and innovation by closing gaps in understanding how sex and gender influence results and diffe
1 h
Theme 6: Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs

Genetic studies on the differences between the sexes and what they mean for gender research and gender equity

Prof Graves explains the types and sources of genetic differences between women and men and how these differences evolved over time to impact on women’s lives.