Gender Justice SIG

The purpose of the Gender Justice SIG is to offer a supportive intellectual space for researchers and practitioners to share their work, network with each other, and advance the field. It also offers a mechanism for promoting issues, challenges and successes in the area of Gender Justice within the CIES and beyond. The Gender Justice SIG will support CIES members conducting theoretical and practical Gender Justice work. Gender, feminist and intersectional work is being undertaken by hundreds of CIES members working in academia, international development, comparative education, and policymaking; however, there is no CIES “home” to connect these individuals and their organizations, or to offer them a space for mentoring the next generation of scholar-practitioners. The Gender Justice SIG will also provide an institutional infrastructure to support collaborations with organizations in the U.S. and around the world, such as the UN Girls’ Education Initiative, the National Women’s Studies Association, UN Commission on the Status 2 of Women, and the many non-governmental organizations working on gender issues.

Chair, Kristy Kelly, Drexel University

Esther E. Gottlieb