Progress in a Pandemic: Toward Feminist Leadership in a Time of Crisis

  • Spogmay Ahmed and Lyric Thompson

Summary

The Campaign drafted a feminist vision for the United Nations in late 2016, and has graded the Secretary-General on his performance toward that vision each year following his declaration of himself as a “feminist” as he took the helm at the United Nations. Since 2017, it has measured the extent to which the Secretary-General advanced progress on six priority proposals for a more gender-equitable world and U.N. system.

This year’s report finds continued advancement on the Secretary-General’s performance setting and implementing a feminist agenda, achieving gender parity and supporting gender in SDG implementation. He included a focus on gender in more of his speeches, and his rhetoric also grew more substantive, incorporating feminist analysis of the power and institutional dynamics underpinning discrimination.

Citation

Ahmed, Spogmay and Lyric Thompson. “Progress in a Pandemic: Toward Feminist Leadership in a Time of Crisis.” International Center for Research on Women. January 2021.

Explore More

All Research