What is the GEA Times?

One of the main objectives of the GEA project is to put the spotlight on gender equality issues in the Arctic. We have made progress, but there is still a lot of work to be done and we are still working hard at it. We believe that Gender Equality time is now.

The GEA Times will serve as a venue for us, and you, to contribute to the discussion and to put focus on gender equality in the Arctic, and to promote events and material related to Arctic gender equality.

Last, but definitely not least, we hope that the GEA Times will help strengthen the GEA community.


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The GEA Times Commentary

Anastasia Ulturgasheva, Arctic researcher

In her commentary, Anastasia describes the differences between women living in remote villages in Siberia and their peers living in urban areas and mainland Russia.

Experiences of indigenous young women living in remote villages in Siberia are drastically different from their peers living in urban areas and mainland Russia. Their experiences are often coloured by multiple forms of discrimination – racism, ethnic chauvinism.

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News from the GEA Project

The Arctic Youth Network is working with the Gender Equality in the Arctic project to develop a Youth Advisory Group to inform the work of the Editorial Committee and their development of an Arctic Gender Equality Report.

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Updates on the GEA Report

The GEA III is developing a Pan-Arctic Report on Gender and Diversity in the Arctic, to be published in 2021. The report is an international cooperative effort of the GEA partners, an Editorial Committee and a Youth Advisory Group. The report will be in both printed and digital form and targeting audiences such as the public and policy making bodies.

Read more about the Report and the Editorial Committee

Materials in Focus

Topics highlighted in this issue of GEA Material in Focus are youth engagement in the Arctic, violence, gender inequality, and indigenous issues.

Gender and Arctic climate change science in Canada | By David Natcher, Ana Maria Bogdan, Angela Lieverse & Kent Spiers
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Cultural Equality is Foundational | By Sigurgeir Ingi Þorkelsson
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True or false? Men and women face violence in their relationships equally | By C. Nadine Wathen
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Gender inequality is one of the most persistent evils of our times | Opinion by Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland
Watch the video

Youth engagement in the Arctic Council | By the Arctic Council
Watch the video

Podcast Women’s Rights Are Human Rights | By Alliance2030
Listen to podcast

Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities | By Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, Gregory A. Reinhardt (Editors)
About the book

A scoping review: Well-being among indigenous children and youth in the Arctic – with a focus on Sami and Greenland Inuit | By Ingemann, Christine; Larsen, Christina Viskum Lytken
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Childhood violence and mental health among indigenous Sami and non-Sami populations in Norway: a SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study | By Astrid M. A. Eriksen, Ketil Lenert Hansen, Berit Schei, Tore Sørlie, Hein Stigum, Espen Bjertness & Cecilie Javo
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Domestic violence and sexual assault | By Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media
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The GEA has compiled more than 200 academic papers, reports, research papers, professional comments and interviews, videos, podcasts, journalist publications and books relevant to Gender Equality in the Arctic.

Check out our growing list of materials

ICASS X postponed

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICASS X “Arctic Generations: Looking Back and Looking Forward“ will be postponed to June 15-19 2021, Arkhangelsk, Russia.

About the GEA project

Gender Equality in the Arctic is an international collaborative Sustainable Development Working Group project focusing on gender equality in the Arctic

The purpose of this project is to promote an extensive, policy-relevant dialogue on issues of gender equality in the Arctic region in the context of current realities in terms of economic and social development as well as current and future challenges, inter alia relating to climatic and environmental changes.

The Gender Equality in the Arctic project is endorsed by the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group
SDWG website | Arctic Council website