Rachel Marcus
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Rachel Marcus is a Senior Research Fellow in ODI’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion team. She is currently co-leading a workstream on gender-restrictive actors in education; a forthcoming report documents the activities of gender-restrictive actors in education in the Global South and will be available on ODI’s Advancing Learning and Innovation in Gender Norms ( ALIGN platform) from June 2024.
What do protests over gender-neutral school toilets in South Africa have to do with teachers being harassed in Brazil or curriculum changes in El Salvador ? In brief, they are all the result of mobilization against the perceived threat of ‘gender ideology’; these are just a few of the examples...
Education: a key battleground for anti-gender activists