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. The GEA Times is 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. We hope that the GEA Times will help strengthen the GEA community.

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Updates on the GEA Report

Recent updates on the developing of the Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic. Stay tuned for more information and introductions to the authors in our next newsletter.

We are pleased to announce that all lead authors for the Icelandic Arctic Council Chairmanship’s Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic have been identified. 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 domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the Arctic, indigenous people in the Arctic, women’s empowerment in the Russian Arctic, security issues in the Arctic.

Why domestic violence in the Arctic could surge with the coronavirus pandemic | By Melody Schreiber
Read the article

Why human trafficking is a serious — but mostly invisible — problem in Alaska | By Melody Schreiber
Read the article

Doctoral Dissertation: When we got reindeer, we moved to live to the tundra - The spoken and Silenced History of the Yamal Nenets | By Roza Laptander
Read about the dissertation

Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark | By Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, and Jakob Egholt Søgaard
Read the paper

Violence against women — it's a men's issue | By Jackson Katz
Watch the video

Want Gender Equality? Let's Get Creative | By Kyl Myers
Watch the video

Threshold Podcast — The Refuge, Episode 1: 'Sibling Rivalry' | By Amy Martin and Nick Mott
Listen to podcast

Threshold Podcast — The Refuge, Episode 3: 'Listen to the People' | By Amy Martin and Nick Mott
Listen to podcast

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

The GEA Calendar

The GEA Calendar gathers upcoming Gender Equality in the Arctic – relevant deadlines and events.

The Gender Equality Studies and Training (GEST) programme calls for nominations for its academic programme in 2021. The deadline for nominations is 20 May 2020.

The Nordic Youth Summit on Gender Equality will bring together young gender equality activists and experts from all of the Nordic region in the UN City in Copenhagen on November 4-5. The objective is to debate and develop visions for future gender equality policies.

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