NCAER - NATIONAL DATA INNOVATION CENTRE
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and Feminist Economics Saturday Discussion Group (FESDIG) jointly organized a cconversation with Ms. Judith Bruce, The Population Council, on Lessons from the Global Advocacy for Gender Justice in the Population Field: 1975-2025 on Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at NCAER Campus, 1st Floor Seminar Hall.
Since the first world conference on the status of women held in 1975 in Mexico City, feminist advocates have struggled to place gender justice at the center of population discourse. Ms. Judith Bruce, a senior advisor based in the Population Council’s New York office, reflected on lessons learned over the past fifty years.
Judith Bruce served as co-chair of the UN Expert Group Meeting on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl-child. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received the Association for Women in Development’s bi-annual award for outstanding contributions to the field. A graduate of Harvard University, Bruce has written and lectured extensively on population policy, the quality of reproductive health services, the status of adolescent girls in the developing world, family and partnership dynamics, and women’s access to and control over resources inside and outside the household.
Through policy analysis, evidence-based intervention design, advocacy, and capacity-building, she has changed the way the world thinks about quality of care from the client’s perspective and about the power and potential of the poorest, most excluded girls. This seminar will draw on her five decades of experience in this field to reflect on the challenges facing it in the coming years and on how lessons learned may energize research and advocacy to overcome new obstacles.
