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Gender and science specialist company Portia Ltd has released its latest publication to coincide with the replacement of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the organisation’s modified initiative, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Entitled ‘The Role of Gender-based Innovations for the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Toward 2030: Better Science and Technology for All’, the 74-page document will be launched formally at a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on 28 January.

According to the Gender Summit’s co-founder, Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer, the publication’s aim ‘is to connect experts and knowledge in the research and innovation community, and the development community, to interlink scientific evidence with context, and inform implementation strategies, programmes and consensus-driven dialogue.’

Pollitzer, alongside co-editor Professor Heisook Lee, was inspired to compile the publication following Gender Summit 6 – Asia-Pacific, also held in Seoul, which showed evidence of how the results of research and innovation are ‘influenced by biological and social differences between females and males’. The same scientific evidence also proves how gender inequality can be neither excluded from nor treated differently to other SDG actions such as eliminating poverty, hunger, poor health and wellbeing, maternal death, climate change adaptation, energy and environmental burdens, economic hardships and societal insecurity.

Covering all 17 SDGs, the publication takes a detailed look at how the results of scientific research and of gender-based innovations can assist in their implementation.