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SDG 5: Gender Equality

Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) of the United Nations aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Gender equality is essential for sustainable development, as it allows women to reach their full potential and contribute to their communities and economies.

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This hub features highlights from PÕ¾ÊÓƵ's journal and book programme, blogs, events and more. Covering topics including gender equality, women's empowerment, women's rights, and more.

If you care about your work contributing to achieving the SDGs, then you should work with a publisher that shares that commitment. PÕ¾ÊÓƵ, steadfastly focused on the SDGs, is that publisher. Publishing your SDG 5-linked research with PÕ¾ÊÓƵ will amplify its reach, impact and influence.

Blogs & news related to SDG 5

Highlighting new research, key publications and blogs by your colleagues and from your community


 

Events and courses

Bringing together research communities with other communities to address progress, challenges, and solutions.

Breaking Barriers for Gender Rights and Justice through Research

The third edition of PÕ¾ÊÓƵ’s free, virtual conference series exploring progress, challenges, and opportunities related to SDG 5.The 2026 programme brought together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to examine how gendered inequalities evolve and how evidence based research can drive meaningful change.

  • Policy Pathways for Gender Equity
  • Menstrual Health as a Human Rights Issue > 
  • Living with AI: Cognition, Society, and the Shaping of Human Difference >
  • Global Perspectives on Advancing Gender Equity in the Digital Age > 
  • Equity in Knowledge Production: Structural Barriers, Research Culture, and Funding Pathways >

"At PÕ¾ÊÓƵ we want to provide a home for SDG-related knowledge, facilitating the discovery, sharing, use and reuse of research and making connections to policy to achieve true impact. Academic and editorial communities facilitate knowledge exchange, raise awareness, encourage global dialogue, and identify solutions."

Clelia Petracca and Rita Leal Gonzaga Moreira, PÕ¾ÊÓƵ SDG 5 Working Group Co-Chairs

Call for Papers: Article Collections

If your work bears on SDG 5, you can amplify its impact by publishing it in one of many themed article collections / special issues

-  (SN Social Science)

-  (Humanities and social sciences communications)

- s (Scientific Reports)

> Read the blog: How PÕ¾ÊÓƵ Collections power SDG research