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SDG 5: Gender Equality

Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) of the United Nations aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Gender equality is essential for sustainable development, as it allows women to reach their full potential and contribute to their communities and economies.

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This hub features highlights from Springer Nature's journal and book programme, blogs, events and more. Covering topics including gender equality, women's empowerment, women's rights, and more.

If you care about your work contributing to achieving the SDGs, then you should work with a publisher that shares that commitment. Springer Nature, steadfastly focused on the SDGs, is that publisher. Publishing your SDG 5-linked research with Springer Nature will amplify its reach, impact and influence.

Breaking Barriers for Gender Rights and Justice through Research

The third edition of Springer Nature’s free, virtual conference series exploring progress, challenges, and opportunities related to SDG 5. A global virtual gathering, this year’s conference responds to the urgent challenges shaping gender equity today. Guided by the UN Women International Women’s Day theme “Rights. Justice. Action. For all Women and Girls”, the 2026 programme brings together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to examine how gendered inequalities evolve and how evidence based research can drive meaningful change.

Across four days of panels and cross disciplinary conversations, the conference explores the structural conditions that shape bodily autonomy, access to health, digital futures, and social participation.

Monday, 28 September | 3pm CET: Policy Pathways for Gender Equity > Register

Tuesday, 29 September | 3pm CET: Menstrual Health as a Human Rights Issue > Register

Wednesday 30 September | 3pm CET: Does AI Reshape the Brain? Gender, Neuroscience, and the Politics of Difference > Register

Thursday, 1 October | 3pm CET: Global Perspectives on Advancing Gender Equity in the Digital Age > Register

"At Springer Nature we want to provide a home for SDG-related knowledge, facilitating the discovery, sharing, use and reuse of research and making connections to policy to achieve true impact. Academic and editorial communities facilitate knowledge exchange, raise awareness, encourage global dialogue, and identify solutions."

Clelia Petracca and Rita Leal Gonzaga Moreira, Springer Nature SDG 5 Working Group Co-Chairs

Call for Papers: Article Collections

If your work bears on SDG 5, you can amplify its impact by publishing it in one of many themed article collections / special issues

- SDG 05 - Gender Equality (SN Social Science)

- Gender, democracy and political violence: A feminist perspective (Humanities and social sciences communications)

- Female athletes (Scientific Reports)

> Read the blog: How Springer Nature Collections power SDG research