Do you speak gender data?

Are you looking to learn more about gender data and why it matters? Look no further! The 8th United Nations Global Forum on Gender Statistics  with the theme “Building forward fairer with gender data at the centre”,  featuring a star line-up of panelists will discuss how gender equality and the production of gender statistics have changed in the aftermath of the pandemic and why.

The two-day Forum will focus on ways to improve data and evidence for gender policies, reflecting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all aspects of women’s and men’s lives, and what it means for the future of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Tomas Gunnarson, Swedish journalist and gender photographer will open the Forum with a keynote speech on bringing the fight to break gender stereotypes to the artistic realm. Tomas embarked on his journey to expose the gender biases in photography when he was 19 and working for various magazines in Sweden.

“I realized that I was feeding stereotypes and that I was not treating people equally through my camera. I was part of the problem and had to do something about it”, he said in an interview for Mexico’s La Crónica de Hoy.

Eva Biaudet, six-term Member of the Finnish Parliament and President of the National Council of Women in Finland, will headline the second day of the Forum. With an impressive professional pathway both in government and civil society organizations, she will speak gender data to the audience, focusing on intersecting inequalities from a gender lens. She will also discuss the keys to accelerate sustainable development and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and its far-reaching social and economic impacts.

For the first time, the Forum will take place online, opening up to a larger and more diverse audience.  To register, click: https://forms.office.com/r/B00ECaHePE or scan the QR code below: