Editorial: Nurturing inclusive and critical spaces for gender inquiry

It is a great pleasure to introduce you to this new section, within Cogent Social Sciences, on Gender Studies. In this editorial, we advocate for an inclusive, visible and critical space that promotes and advances the field of gender studies, which is more vital and relevant than ever. Providing a brief overview of the field, we set the scene by looking back to acknowledge the roots and history of gender studies as both theory and movement. We then outline the contemporary challenges facing gender scholars, with particular reference to the thematic areas currently served by this section: work and migration, violence, health, education, care and climate change.