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Gender norms and the coronavirus

New research hub highlighting resources and analysis relating to gender norms and the coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Video

Caroline Harper
Why are norms important?

Director of the ALIGN programme and principle research fellow at ODI, Caroline Harper, explains why gender norms and important and what we can do to challenge and change them.

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Think piece

5 March 2020

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Why look back? It's not where we are going: The value of history in understanding gender and development
Author: Caroline Harper

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Blog

23 March 2020

Girls taking part in sport at school. Credit: Tanya Holden/DFID
Data on gender norms: can we find and use what is missing?
Authors: Rebecka Lundgren , Meredith Pierce, Anita Raj, Namratha Rao

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Case study

18 March 2020

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Women at work: Engaging young women in construction in Ghana
Author: Ethel Seiwaa Boateng

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Case study

9 March 2020

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Breaking barriers: work for women and work for men in Chamanculo, Mozambique
Authors: Maria Ybarra Enguiz, Astrid Groenbaek

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In-depth case studies and analysis

History and change graphic
History and change

ALIGN's 'history and change' research gathers together qualitative data looking at the impact of harmful gender norms in Uganda, Nepal and Sierra Leone, and investigates how these norms have changed over time.

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Interested in submitting your resources to the ALIGN platform? We invite submissions on a variety of topics related to gender norms.

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Themes

Education
Education
Health
Health
Gender-based violence
Gender-based violence
Economic empowerment
Economic empowerment
Men, boys and masculinities
Men, boys and masculinities
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How norms change
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Cross-cutting themes
Copyright: Annie Spratt
Data, tools and measurement

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