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Welcome to Wikigender

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An OECD Development Centre initiative

Wikigender is your online platform to find and exchange information related to gender equality. Users are invited to comment on or improve existing articles, and to create or upload new documents. More about this project.

Wikigender currently comprises 291 articles and is maintained by 297 users. Want to add more? Become a Wikigender editor.

Getting started

Find an article

You can search for an article using the search bar on the left or find a complete list of articles here: Index of Articles. Alternatively, browse through Wikigender's categories.

Create an account

If you want to edit texts, upload documents or create new articles please first sign up here: Log in/create account. Choose a login name and password to become a registered user of Wikigender.

Edit an article

Only registered users can edit articles in Wikigender, so first Log in/create account. When you are logged in you can modify a text by clicking on "edit this page". If this option does not appear on top of the page this article has been protected. Want to practice your editing skills on Wikigender? Why not start by modifying your personal user page?!

Write a new article

Only registered users can edit articles in Wikigender, so first Log in/create account. When you are logged in, there are many ways to create a new article:

  • Click on an empty link in an article you are reading (these links appear in red)
  • Select an empty link from the list of all Wanted Pages
  • In an existing text, create a link to an article that you want to create

If none of these options works for you (i.e. your topic is not mentioned in any of the existing articles), you can create a new article by typing in the name of your topic here:


In order to avoid duplication, please make sure that your topic has not yet been covered in Wikigender. If you search for an article, remember that some authors may have used different spelling.

For questions or suggestions

Please feel free to contact us for any comments you may have.

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Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and equal rights for women. Throughout much of its history, most feminist leaders and theorists have been predominantly middle-class white women from Western Europe and North America. However, at least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to US Feminists, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms.

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Did you know that more women than men can read or write in Lesotho, Jamaica, Malta, Botswana and Honduras? In many other countries, the literacy ratio is highly skewed towards the male side. Find out more.


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