New Report – “Gender and Nuclear Weapons: Measuring the Impact”
On January 8th, 2025 the United Kingdom-based non-profit think tank BASIC released a new report, “Gender and Nuclear Weapons: Measuring the Impact.” The report, funded by Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy, presents tangible steps to evaluate the impact of gender work in the nuclear policy field.
Authored by BASIC Policy Fellow, Laura Rose Brown, the report maps the landscape of gender and nuclear weapons, to engage with critical questions about how impact is understood within current approaches to gendering nuclear weapons policy. Key takeaways include the need to reconsider who is made responsible for gender work, and which resources are made available to ensure the success and sustainability of approaches to gendering nuclear policy.
BASIC explored key challenges in doing gender work, relating to both the specific dynamics of the nuclear policy field, and in broadening understandings of impact. The report concludes with an evaluation framework, designed as a tool for organisations and individuals to consider gender programme design in intersectional terms.
Download the report here
BASIC is an independent, non-profit think tank whose mission is to safeguard humanity and Earth’s ecosystem from nuclear risks and interconnected security threats, for generations to come.