The relationship between sex, gender, gender identity, and psychological (dis-)comfort with gender typicality has increasingly become a topic of interest ...

Research provides evidence that cisgender children (children who identify as a boy or a girl according to their assigned sex at birth) show clear patterns of gender development. By age three, they ...

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has reviewed the National Gender Policy (2025–2034) to further ...

For several decades, gender equality has been a central pillar of global development and international aid, shaping how development challenges are framed, how programs are designed, and how success is ...

The link between women’s empowerment and economic growth is well established. When women are economically empowered, they invest more in their families, creating a cycle of positive outcomes that ...

The Gender Development Program at Children’s National Hospital will discontinue its gender-affirming medication prescription program for transgender minors and no longer offer transition services. An ...

The ECOWAS Commission has called for bold electoral reforms across West Africa to ensure equal political participation of women and young people, as the regional body targets 50/50 gender parity in el ...

Women face multiple barriers during their entire life, resulting in gender gaps in education, skills, labor force participation, wages, wealth, and agency. Aligned with SDG 5's objective of achieving ...

Despite making up nearly half of the country’s population, most women in Nigeria are still excluded from political decision-making, economic opportunities and social privileges. TOBA AGBOOLA reports.