This blog summarises a symposium organised by ODI Global at the 2025 UKFIET conference.
“A well organised, funded and disciplined global movement has a clear and long-term strategy to reinforce or reinstate a conservative, patriarchal vision of gender relations by smearing gender equality in education in the name of cultural or national interests, often in service of authoritarian agendas.”
However, the authors also state: “For every challenge that the education sector faces, there are tried and tested solutions.”
The authors give examples and summarise their findings into eight actions to tackle resistance to gender equality.