Faculty leaders: Dr. Müge Finkel and Dr. Melanie Hughes
2023-2024
The “Gender Equality in Public Administration” (GEPA) working group began in 2015 and has involved over 100 students to date. In collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the working group produced and launched the 2021 Global Gender Equality in Public Administration Report and the first global dataset of publicly available comparable measures of public administration, the Gen-PaCS dataset, highlighting the research conducted by students on locating women within public administrations globally. The GEPA working group makes an annual research presentation to the UNDP partners at the UN HQ in New York and offers a competitive paid internship opportunity to work with the Gender Teams at the six UNDP Regional Hubs.
Student Researchers:
- Natty Good (GSPIA)
- Francis Toraino (GSPIA)
- Megan Debski (GSPIA)
- Sara Roach (GSPIA)
- Askriti Bikash Kumar (GSPIA)
- Melinda Go (GSPIA)
- Jasmine Akoba (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology)
- Natalia Duarte Mayorga (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology)
- Kathryn Pataki (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology)
- Maria Stella Siqueira De Carvalho (Undergraduate)
- Tatiana Gringberg Limoncic (Undergraduate)
2020-2021
In 2014, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) published a report that launched the Gender Equality in Public Administration (GEPA) project – a research and policy development initiative to collect and make available up-to-date information on gender equality in public administration. In September 2015, the Ford Institute initiated the GEPA working group in partnership with the UNDP. Over the past five years, students have collected and analyzed raw data on women’s representation in civil service jobs globally. They have presented findings at UN Headquarters in New York in May 2016, 2017, and 2018. In March 2019, the group was invited to present at the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women Meetings that took place in New York City at the UN Headquarters. More information can be found at www.girl.pitt.edu
Student Researchers:
- Sonya Akhgar (MID '21)
- I Younan An (MID '21)
- Juliana Bernardio (MID '21)
- Kayla Conforti (MPIA '21)
- Natalia Duarte (PhD Candidate)
- Leila Fadel (MID '22)
- Natalia Goodnow (MPIA '21)
- Rhea Henry (MPA '21)
- Rebecca Holland (MID '21)
- Brianna Howell (PhD Candidate)
- Caroline Kimbro (MID '22)
- Katrina Lenhart (MID '22)
- Rachel Licina (MPIA '22)
- Alexandra Long (MPA '22)
- Ihrar Muhammadi (MID '21)
- Alice Ngamije (MID '21)
- Lizz Piccoli (MID '21)
- Noelle Spencer (PhD Candidate)
- Yiyang Sun (MPIA '21)
- Gifty Owusu-Tawiah (MID '22
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2016-2019
In the 2017–2019 academic years, the group focused on the relationship between GEPA data availability and GEPA outcomes as they relate to conflict and peace processes in conflict-affected countries. The group presented their research to the UN GEPA team in December 2015, May and December 2016, May 2017, November 2017, May 2018, and March 2019. The 2019 spring presentations were held over two days as a part of the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women at the UN Secretariat in New York.
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