Academy on Gender, Inclusion and the Future of Work
Academy on Gender, Inclusion and the Future of Work
24 November–5 December 2025
Introduction to the course
Gender equality is fundamental to delivering on the promise of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The benefits, the business case and the evidence are widely available for advancing gender equality in the world of work. Yet, important and hard-won gender equality and diversity inclusion gains appear to be at risk. Further, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the livelihoods of millions of workers, increased gender gaps and pushed vulnerable groups farther away from decent work. How can we step-up actions to achieve gender equality and diversity inclusion, which are essential to deliver on the promise of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda?
Who attends this course?
The Academy is designed for development professionals who are responsible for advancing gender equality and women's socio-economic empowerment, including: - Government officials; - Representatives of workers' and employers' organizations; - International organizations, such as the agencies of the UN system and the international financial institutions; - Private sector entities committed to diversity, equal opportunities, corporate social responsibility; - Research and academic institutions; - Civil society organisations; - Professionals and individual consultants working in the field.
What topics does this academy cover?
A combination of plenary lectures, panel discussions and keynote speeches will guide you through a transformative agenda for gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work.
At the same time, you will also be able to customize your learning journey by choosing among a variety of parallel elective workshops, designed as stand-alone units of one training day, but also “stackable” in a modular structure.
During the two weeks, plenary sessions and hands-on elective workshops may include:
- Gender equality and the future of work;
- Care work and the care economy;
- Ending violence and harassment in the world of work: the global mandate, perspectives and practical tools for action;
- Pay equity and gender pay gaps;
- Gender, climate change and a just transition to environmentally sustainable economies;
- Social dialogue for gender equality;
- Gender-transformative leadership;
- The role of men and transformative masculinities;
- Women workers on the move: the gender dimension of labour migration;
- Gender and informality: challenges, solutions and experiences;
- Gender mainstreaming – tools, methods and frameworks;
- Intersectional discrimination at work: what it means, how to tackle it;
- Organisational gender assessment methods: introducing the ILO Participatory Gender Audit;
- Gender transformative approaches to result-based management;
- Accelerating gender equality in technology and innovation in the digital age;
- Communicating and training for gender equality.
- Gender-responsive budgeting
- Breaking gender stereotypes
What will I learn?
A combination of plenary sessions, discussion and hands-on elective workshops will guide you through a transformative agenda for gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work, including:
- the ILO experience in normative and policy action for gender equality;
- the latest concepts and approaches in the UN and international gender equality discourse, in a world in transformation;
- innovative tools, methodologies, successful practices and strategies for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
What will I be able to do?
- Analyse the world of work and workplaces from a gender equality and non-discrimination perspective;
- Identify measures to prevent and address workplace gender inequalities, discrimination, violence and harassment;
- Refer to state-of-art information, data, good practices and methods;
- Gather evidence and build effective arguments to support your policy advocacy efforts;
- Develop strategies and use tools for changing mind-sets, forging alliances and initiating sustainable change.
Why should I join?
The Academy will allow you to:
- Stay up to date on the latest developments and salient issues around gender equality, through plenary lectures and panel discussions with top experts, while at the same time networking with professionals working on gender equality and women’s empowerment from all around the globe;
- Customize your learning journey by choosing among different elective workshops based on your interests;
- Engage through innovative and participatory learning methods;
Connect, network and share knowledge and insights with fellow professionals and organizations from all over the world
