The Women and Public Policy Program’s faculty, research fellows, and students are committed to advancing women and gender equity globally. Through rigorous research, we offer gender insights into work, politics, and conflict that have the potential to reduce or eliminate barriers so all people can fulfill their life aspirations unconstrained by gender bias.
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Celebrating International Women's Day and Women's History Month
We're sharing on-campus and virtual events encompassing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives; from our signature community breakfast reflecting on the state of gender equity, to a discussion on gender politics in culinary arts, to a lecture on the history of transgender artists' influence on design fields. See the full list of events here, and join us to build community and generate discussion around the many facets of gender and gender equity.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF LAND AND PEOPLE
The Women and Public Policy Program and the Harvard Kennedy School are located on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary unceded homeland of the Massachusett people, the surviving descendants of the first people of Massachusetts and of the Neponset band of the Massachusett. We honor this tradition and work toward a gender equity agenda that addresses the needs of all women, including Indigenous women and Indigenous communities. For more information, please visit our GAP Land Acknowledgement resource page.