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SDG5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

With International Women’s Day approaching, we wanted to #ExploreSDG 5 together on ScienceOpen and promote our network’s contribution to achieving gender equality under Agenda2030’s Sustainable Development Goal 5.

Gender Equality Research by Hogrefe Journals

Hogrefe is the leading scientific publisher for psychology, psychiatry, and mental health in Europe. Hogrefe’s journals’ portfolio consists of high quality, peer-reviewed articles in English and German language, and in the Hogrefe super collection ScienceOpen’s users can get access to quality scholarly content at the intersection of psychology and gender equality.

Hogrefe Psychology covers many areas of psychology and psychiatry, and aims to facilitate a better understanding of people as psychosocial individuals. The journals included in this collection cover a myriad of research topics, among which gender equality.

• Women Leaders in Syria in the COVID-19 Response and Beyond
• Mass Trauma and Long-Term Psychological Distress: The Role of Economic Deprivation Among Older Widows in Sri Lanka
• COVID-19 and Women : Key Components of SDG-5 and the Estimated Prevalence of Modern Slavery
• Women Leaders During a Global Crisis : Challenges, Characteristics, and Strengths

International Perspectives in Psychology is committed to publishing research that examines human behavior and experiences around the globe from a psychological perspective and below we are sharing below just a glimpse of the gender equality related research:

• ‘Now I Can Help Someone’: Social Remittances Among Returned Migrants in Highland Guatemala
• Affective-Semiotic Dynamics of the Transition to Motherhood in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Mass Trauma and Long-Term Psychological Distress: The Role of Economic Deprivation Among Older Widows in Sri Lanka

To get a more in-depth look at the research available, we invite you to visit the Hogrefe Collectionand follow it to stay up to date with Hogrefe’s high-quality content on SDG5 and other sustainable development goals.

Emerald’s best on a Fairer Society

Emerald: Fairer Society has curated Emerald’s best research on SDGs 1, 2, 5, 8, 10 and 16, helping scholars and academics to build a fair, inclusive and equitable society, that leaves no-one behind.

An always-present publisher in our #ExploreSDGs blog campaign, the work showcased in this collection recognizes Emerald’s support for promoting a society that is just, inclusive and embracing of all without any barriers to participation based on sex, gender or other characteristics and where there is access to healthcare and education, technology, justice, strong institutions, peace and security, social protection, decent work and housing for all.

Explore SDG5 on Emerald’s Fairer Society collection and share your favorite titles with peers and colleagues!

• Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality: what/how are we measuring?
• Gender research in hospitality and tourism management: time to change the guard
• Facilitating women entrepreneurship in Canada: the case of WEKH
• The moderating influence of national culture on female and male entrepreneurs’ social network size and new venture growth
• Understanding gender dimensions of climate-smart agriculture adoption in disaster-prone smallholder farming communities in Malawi and Zambia

Pluto Journals

Pluto Journals was launched in 2009, as an independent and international journal publisher in the field of the social sciences. Producing world class journals that are at the cutting edge of humanities research today, the journals featured in the Pluto Journals super collection are a great source of information for gender equality and SDG5 related topics.

With over 4400 articles, you simply need enough time to discover all the open access content offered by Pluto Journals on ScienceOpen.

Explore SDG5 related research and stay in the lookout for multilingual content. Pluto Journals feature different perspectives from different academia traditions, all in one research collection.

• Tracing Transformation in Turbulent Times: Two Case Studies for Monitoring and Evaluating Transformation in Higher Education – International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies
• Pushed to the Margins : Ethiopian Migrants in South Africa – Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies
• Reclaiming power: Women loving women and intimate partner violence in Guyana – Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies
• Gender inequality in the labour market of Ukraine : Challenges for the future – Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
• Celine Ibrahim. Women and Gender in the Qur’an – ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies
• Teologização da política : Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade no Hinduísmo – Decolonial Horizons / Horizontes Decoloniales

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice provides an internationally unique forum for leading research on the themes of poverty and social justice. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, the journal explores issues of ethnicity, gender, disability, and other social inequalities as they relate to social justice.

Explore SDG5 on the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice collection:

• Putting gender and capabilities into the equation: transformative evaluation for enhancing social justice
• Tangled narratives of poverty in early childhood: othering, work, welfare and ‘curveballs’
• Gender matters: family background and upper secondary education in Finland
• Menstrual poverty among young women: a cross-sectional study in the urban context of Barcelona, Spain

Books on Gender Equality

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Michigan Publishing publishes scholarly and educational materials in a range of formats and covering a wide array of disciplines. The University of Michigan Press strongly supports the struggle for racial and social justice and with it aims to publish and distribute books in the humanities and social sciences that seek to make sense of society and culture.

In issues related to Gender Equality, have a look at the book titles below and try to find other interesting titles by making full use of our smart discovery tools and search and filter options.

• Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era
• Liberalism and Transformation: The Global Politics of Violence and Intervention
• Finding Voice : A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
• The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

African Minds is an open access, not-for-profit, publisher of scholarly books. African Minds publishes predominantly in the social sciences and its authors are typically African academics or those with a close affinity with the continent. African Minds offers innovative approaches on fostering access, openness and debate in the pursuit of growing and deepening the African knowledge base.

Explore book titles related to gender equality and the struggle for social justice:

• Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools: Teaching in the Face of Inequality and Discrimination
• The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa
• Out of Place : An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship

Amsterdam University Press is a leading scholarly publisher of the Humanities and Social Sciences. AUP publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed Academic Books in English, Textbooks for universities and higher education, Journals, and Major Reference Works. On topics of Gender Equality, AUP provides books covering issues of social justice through an interdisciplinary approach. Discover some book titles by Amsterdam University Press below:

• Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
• Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
• Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna

For a more financial approach to issues of inequality, discover the European Investment Bank Publications. The EIB publishes a wide range of reports, studies and essays aimed at professionals and the general public, all available free of charge in their digital formats.

• On Inequality
• Funding women entrepreneurs: How to empower growth

UCL Press’ SDG5 collection

Through its world-class research and teaching, and the way it operates as an institution, UCL is playing a leading role in responding to the challenges set out in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. UCL: UN SDG 05 Gender Equality features UCL-published research supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

• The work lives of disabled teachers: revisiting inclusive education in English schools
• Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality : Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives
• Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions
• Mental Health Experiences of Sex Trafficking Victims in Western Countries: A Qualitative Study

Keep the conversation going!

In our blog post Curating SDGs research on ScienceOpen, we have covered the main ways in which all our users can profit from our network while pushing forward the objectives of Agenda2030.

If you have research relevant o the SDG5 already published on ScienceOpen, don’t forget to add the SDG5 in the keywords, for your research to be featured in ScienceOpen’s SDG 5: Gender Equality Collection.

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