Goal 5: Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
See more information about this goal from the United Nations
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Many programs at UMD have begun incorporating questions, conversations and linkages to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. "Partnering for the Goals" invites you to help our SustainableUMD network explore opportunities to better share information across UMD divisions, departments, and disciplines in order to advance the University's meaningful involvement in this global initiative.
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RELATED ARTICLE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTEXAMPLES OF UMD CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD THE GOAL
This resource is under development and we want your help to fill it out! Use the webform below the examples to tell us about other departments, programs, projects, etc. at UMD that address the SDG locally or globally. The examples on this page are just a broad starting place to help compile meaningful involvement at UMD so that the Office of Sustainability can work with interested stakeholders to explore potential next steps.
Empowering Women in Law at UMD
Empowering Women in Law at UMD is a gender-inclusive group focused on bringing together like-minded students to discuss what it is like to be a woman in the world of law and taking powerful steps toward success in higher fields.
Girl Up UMD
Girl Up engages girls to take action in support of other girls around the world. The initiative focuses on five aspects of life: education, health, safety, leadership and documentation.
She's the First
She's the First (STF) is an international non-profit organization that sponsors girls’ education in low-income countries with the goal of creating first-generation graduates and our next generation of global leaders.
Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry analyzing structures of power, especially as they are grounded in gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability, and other inequalities, and as they configure historical and contemporary struggles for social change.
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