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The Advancing Learning and Innovation
on Gender Norms (ALIGN) platform

ALIGN specialises in research and knowledge sharing on gender and social norms, looking at the impact of discriminatory and harmful norms and how they change. We share knowledge from our own research and that of our ever-expanding community of practice.

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Bibliography/Literature review

22 July 2021

A woman being filmed. © Jakob Owens/Unsplash

Broadcast media and gender norms

Author: Faria A. Nasruddin

Published by: ALIGN

Blog

22 July 2021

Sculptures of women running with Olympic torches in Beijing, China. © Sam Balye/Unsplash

Sport: A reinforcer of gender norms or a force for change?

Author: Emily Subden

Published by: ALIGN

Briefing paper

22 July 2021

Gender-based violence and women in artisanal mining in Zimbabwe

Authors: Owen Mafongoya, Macreynold Maroveke, Samson Muzenda

Published by: ALIGN

Video/podcast

5 July 2021

How do entrenched gender norms change?

Author: Caroline Harper

This video outlines how gender norms changes and the barriers and backlash they face along the way.

Published by: ALIGN

Briefing paper

12 July 2021

Women and gender norms in Nepal’s parliament

Author: YUWA

Published by: ALIGN

Blog

1 July 2021

Informal workers gather for a meeting of their association, the Makola Market Traders Union, in Accra, Ghana. The union is dominated by women and the strength in numbers provides some protection to traders. Credit: Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Ending gender-based violence in the workplace: the need to shift norms

Author: Rachel Marcus

Published by: ALIGN

ALIGN flagship report

9 December 2020

Gender, power and progress: How norms change

How have gender norms changed over the past quarter-century? What has supported and blocked changes to gender norms in a number of sectors? How can we make change faster, and robust enough to resist backlash and crisis?

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Women from the Self Help Group Alita Kole, taking care of their crops that they own together as a group. ©Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

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