For all the gains made for and by women in academia, equal pay, under-representation, stereotypes, tokenism or imposter syndrome mean that there is still a long way to go. For International Women’s Day 2018 we’ve highlighted some of the papers that female academics at both the Global Development Institute and the Effective States and Inclusive Development research centre have produced over recent years and demonstrate that women’s research isn’t just about gender.

Migration and refugees

• Transnational migration and the gendered right to the city in Buenos Aires, Dr Tanja Bastia
• Realizing rights within the Israeli Asylum Regime: a case study among Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv, Dr Tanja Müller

Global production networks

• Gendered global production networks: analysis of cocoa–chocolate sourcing, Prof Stephanie Barrientos
• What is cocoa sustainability? Mapping stakeholders’ socio-economic, environmental, and commercial constellations of priorities, Dr Judith Krauss

Livelihoods and industry

• Livelihoods Limitations: The Political Economy of Urban Poverty in Bangladesh, Dr Nicola Banks
• Entrepreneurship: structural transformation, skills and constraints, Dr Ralitza Dimova and Kevwe Pela
• Reform of the coal sector in an open economy: the case of China, Dr Yin-Fang Zhang
• Do farmers really like farming? Indian farmers in transition, Prof Bina Argwal
• The power of numbers in gender dynamics: illustrations from community forestry groups, Prof Bina Argwal

Climate

• Using climate finance to advance climate justice: the politics and practice of channelling resources to the local level, Prof Diana Mitlin et al
• Space, social relations and contestation: Transformative peacebuilding and World Social Forum climate spaces, Dr Karen Buckley

Aid

• Local perceptions of conflict and the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions, Dr Tanja Müller

Gender:

• The Devil is in the Detail: understanding how housing assets contribute to gender-just cities, Prof Diana Mitlin et al.
• Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict: Participatory methodology for gender-based and political violence, Dr Caroline Moser
• What political dynamics lead to domestic violence legislation being implemented?, Dr Elini Sifaki
• The power of numbers in gender dynamics: illustrations from community forestry groups, Prof Bina Argwal
• ‘Looking after granny’: a transnational ethic of care and responsibility, Dr Tanja Bastia
• Political settlements, women’s representation and gender equality: The 2008 gender-based violence law and gender parity in primary and secondary education in Rwanda, Jennie E. Burnet and Jeanne d’Arc Kanakuze
• A political settlement approach to gender empowerment: The case of the Domestic Violence Act and girls’ education policy in Ghana, Beatrix Allah-Mensah and Rhoda Osei-Afful

• Read about Prof Bina Argwal’s wide ranging body of work on gender. 
• Follow ESID’s work on gender and the political settlement