Title: Intersectionality Mythbusters
Course: Introduction to gender-based analysis plus GBA+ > Section: Module 2

While there may be expectations of researcher objectivity in other fields, an intersectionality approach recognizes that personal biases – conscious and unconscious – may impact a researcher’s ability to effectively identify barriers to equality.

Researchers are expected to be reflexive, and to identify how their own perspectives, background and social location impact the work that they do.

Intersectionality emphasizes the importance of identifying multiple and diverse identity factors, and how they interact with external considerations. Intersectionality focuses on how structural, systemic, political, social and geographical factors interact with identity factors to shape lived experiences.