Circle Back
Circle Back is a new conversation series about establishments—social, political, cultural—and how they affect individuals, communities, and cultures. These conversations put into focus the interplay of identities and institutions. We “circle back” to the issues that matter, to arrive at new ways of being and belonging.
Feminist Youth Leadership Programme (FYLP)
Through FYLP, Gender at Work India took on the task of advancing the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) mandate by creating a contextual programme around building feminist youth leadership in India. This process intervention brings together people, knowledge, and pedagogy in a way that would lead to secondary and tertiary impacts and promote just, equitable, and intersectional feminist agendas across civil society.
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Knowledge Products
We took a ground-up approach to understanding, operationalising, and building resources for feminist youth leadership in India, while simultaneously unpacking the context in which these are embedded. We have conceptualised and designed five knowledge products representing the different stages and takeaways from our process of engagement with feminist youth leadership.
Feminist Leadership Lab
The Feminist Leadership Lab is part of a larger continuum of processes which seek to co-create tools and resources for young people who are leading transformative social change in civil society across India. Gender at Work India is building this process with the support of UN Women India under the Generation Equality Forum (GEF).
Inclusive | Intersectional | Institutional Change
Founded as a nonprofit trust in January 2015, Gender at Work India uses an intersectional feminist approach to raise institutional standards by building architectures for diversity, equity, and inclusion within workspaces in India. We establish connections, provide leadership and mentorship support to professionals, individuals, and organisations.
Whether you are a professional looking to champion DEI initiatives within your organisation, a practitioner wanting to hone your skills, or an ally and advocate for marginalised communities, we are here to support you. We hope that through our support, individuals and organisations can feel that they have greater agency to imagine new ways of working, thinking and doing, open to the promise of a more just and equitable world.
Areas of Support
Mentoring and Leadership Support
Our tailored courses, workshops, and storytelling sessions are designed to help those in management and leadership roles understand how they can drive change in their own organisations to advance diversity, equality and inclusion.
Gender at Work India’s learning programmes enable individuals and organisations to understand the complex ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion by creating spaces to share experiences, tools, frameworks and strategies.
Knowledge and Evidence
Our objective is to shine a light on the challenges of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the Indian context. Our policy briefs, case studies and reports showcase strategies for challenging and changing those institutional norms and practices that buttress inequality. In addition, we promote the value of diversity by connecting with researchers and practitioners, especially from historically marginalised groups, who work on issues of equality and inclusion.
Collaborative Workspaces
We plan to bolster the current discourses on diversity, equality and inclusion within the country by fostering collaborative workspaces and relationships to enable collective action and impact.
Institutional Design and Architectures
We help organisations undertake organisational change processes so that they can bring latent inequalities to the surface and address them by transforming work practices, structures and policies that determine norms, routines and interactions among employees. Through process facilitation and consultations, we enhance organisational design to incorporate considerations of gender, caste, sexuality and disability into strategies, policies, programmes and operations.
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Gender at Work India aims to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within Indian civil society, philanthropic and corporate sectors. Our mission is to provide resources (tools, frameworks, and learning programmes) that empower practitioners to create more diverse and inclusive organisations. We help organisations build leadership capabilities and develop change strategies for more equitable outcomes. If you’d like to support our work, please donate.
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