UG gender studies institute launched

Vice Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi being handed the partnership agreement by Professor Verene Shepard of UWI- Institute of Gender and Developmental Studies Jamaica

The University of Guyana’s (UG)   Institute for Gender Studies (IGS) was yesterday launched with the hope that it could help to influence policy.

The IGS was inaugurated by UG in partnership with the University of West Indies’s (UWI) Institute of Gender and Developmental Studies Jamaica. The event was held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, Liliendaal.

The institute, which was launched in the middle of a two-day National Conference on Gender and