UN Women Reviews

Pros

professionalism is the best describe of the UNWOMEN.

Cons

I did not find anything that need to improve because management were the best

Pros

As expected, the employees at UN Women come from all different types of backgrounds from around the world. The office is multi-cultural and everyone is mission-oriented, driven, and highly intelligent.

Cons

Lots of paper pushing at this organization with little to no work-life balance. It's normal for people to work 12-hour days. Doing so is often portrayed as a point of pride but in actuality is a reflection of poor staffing and hiring practices that leaves young professionals doing mainly administrative work than research or analysis on the issues they care about. You need a master's degree to be considered for an internship, which is already a high barrier for entry especially since stipends and pay for consultants is no where near what's needed to survive in NYC.

Pros

Doing good externally for gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

Cons

Extremely dysfunctional corporate structure, chaos, a toxic working culture where you are expected to work 24/7. Bad leadership and no support from managers. Inwardly, so horrible and hellish.

Pros

Delivering Impact at scale working on global projects and making a difference

Cons

Lack of career development or growth and visibility very hierarchal, need to focus on building more inclusive culture globally. Need more focus on staff in small offices

Pros

Committed and qualified people work here - mostly

Cons

lack of feminist leadership at the top

Pros

If you have a staff contract, the benefits are great, like any other UN agency. Compared to other UN agencies, UN Women have more positions in capital cities rather then in the "deep field". Staff appear committed to the mandate.

Cons

Having worked for several other UN agency in the past, UN Women appears as the most ineffective one, the least operational and is extremely burdened by an insane level of bureaucratic cumbersome rules. Every activity or request, even the simplest ones require non-ending memos and requests in Atlas, so many steps, for everything. I have never experienced anything like this with the other UN agencies. The agency is paralyzed by its own weight. The entire workforce appear to create jobs for themselves with unending paper pushing. Another Con: UN Women being constantly under-funded while promising to over-deliver is reliant on a workforce of "non-staff", mostly an army of short-term consultants to provide "expert" advice. As a result, the turnover is extremely high and everyone is constantly looking for other jobs.

Pros

Amazing mandate, placed in the core of the development agenda

Cons

Abuse, harassment Patriarchal culture Low capacity in personnel Bureaucratic processes Culture of congratulating and compensating low quality achievements Requirement to work 14 hour days with no recognition

Pros

Inspiring mission to address challenges facing women and girls

Cons

limited resources for program work

Pros

Great exposure and hands-on experience in peace and security projects.

Cons

Low daily page, but only one that pays in the UN System.

Pros

great benefit and work life balance

Cons

poor career development for young professional