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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.

"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 Marios Karouzos, 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

- SDG5 - Gender Equality (SN Social Sciences)

- Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (Nature)

- Disparities in access to sexual and reproductive health services (BMC Women's Health, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth)