While Indonesia appears to be making progress towards gender equity, the country’s latest update on its progress toward SDGs doesn’t tell the full story, Angie Bexley and Sharon Bessell write.

India must realise that gender equality is an issue for all its citizens, and combat bias against women for the benefit of everyone in the country, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt writes.

Grand theories that attribute gendered outcomes to reliance on a particular resource need to narrow their scope and focus on communities, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Donny Pasaribu write.

Gender equality in international development may not have featured heavily in the 2022 election campaign so far, but implementing evidence-based policy to tackle the issues is critical to the future.