Gender Research Center (GRC) was created as a non-commercial public association at Western University. 

The main mission of GRC is

• Develop and spread a new for Azerbaijan society gender approach to the analysis of social life

• Integrate this approach in scientific research and academic programs

The GRC units scientists and lecturers who develop gender approach in different social and humanitarian disciplines (philosophy, economic theory, law, history, psychology, sociology, political sciences, cultural study). The GRC consists of 42 teachers and researchers, who represent 11 higher educational institutions of Azerbaijan Republic, and National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. The GRC’s activity is carried out in the following main directions: 

• Conduction of women and gender researches, integration of gender theory in social and humanitarian sciences

• Development of the scientific and public links

• Conduction and participation in conferences, seminars, symposiums

• Educational and scientific activity

• Publications

GRC is aimed to discuss and analyse the following problems: 

• Personality and its relations with the world

• Freedom and its limits

• Differences between people and necessity of equal rights

• Marriage, family and religion

• Traditional and democratic values