{"id":37306,"date":"2011-07-07T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:39:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:39:41","slug":"global-women%e2%80%99s-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/07\/global-women%e2%80%99s-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global women\u2019s progress report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Family Inequality<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have criticized<\/a> sloppy statistical work by some international feminist organizations, so I\u2019m glad to have a chance to point out a useful new report and website.<\/p>\n

The Progress of the World\u2019s Women is from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women<\/a>. The full-blown site has an executive summary<\/a>, a long report<\/a>, and a statistics index page with a download of the complete spreadsheet.\u00a0I selected a few of the interesting graphics.<\/p>\n

Skewed sex ratios (which I\u2019ve written about here<\/a> and here<\/a>) are in the news, with the publication of Unnatural Selection<\/a>, by Mara Hvistendahl. The report shows some of the countries with the most skewed sex ratios, reflecting the practice of parents aborting female fetuses (Vietnam and Taiwan should \u00a0be in there, too). With the exception of Korea, they\u2019ve all gotten more skewed since the 1990s, when ultrasounds became more widely available, allowing parents to find out the sex of the fetus early in the pregnancy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The most egregious inequality between women of the world is probably in maternal mortality. This chart shows, for example, that the chance of a woman dying during pregnancy or birth is about 100-<\/del> 39-times higher in Africa than Europe. The chart also shows how many of those deaths are from unsafe abortions.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, I made this one myself, showing women as a percentage of parliament in most of the world\u2019s rich countries (the spreadsheet<\/a> has the whole list). The USA, with 90 women out of 535 members of Congress, comes in at 17%.
\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The report focuses on law and justice issues, including rape and violence against women, as well as reparations, property rights, and judicial reform. They boil down their conclusions to: “Ten proven approaches to make justice systems work for women<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

1. Support women\u2019s legal organizations<\/p>\n

2. Support one-stop shops and specialized services to reduce attrition in the justice chain [that refers to rape cases, for example, not making their way from charge to conviction -pnc<\/em>]<\/p>\n

3. Implement gender-sensitive law reform<\/p>\n

4. Use quotas to boost the number of women legislators<\/p>\n

5. Put women on the front line of law enforcement<\/p>\n

6. Train judges and monitor decisions<\/p>\n

7. Increase women\u2019s access to courts and truth commissions in conflict and post-conflict contexts.<\/p>\n

8. Implement gender-responsive reparations programmes<\/p>\n

9. Invest in women\u2019s access to justice<\/p>\n

10. Put gender equality at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graphics and data from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,12508,55,2095,2091,2094,2098,252,260,1764,8117,1765,1766,8116,1767,1811,1770,1772,2055,2026,1776,1855,1777,1783,1784,1818,1819,1821,1790,1791,1799,1980,1788,1802,1804,1805,1789,1809,3920,85,283],"class_list":["post-37306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-gender-politics","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-healthmedicine","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-argentina","tag-nation-armenia","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-austria","tag-nation-azerbaijan","tag-nation-belgium","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-china","tag-nation-denmark","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-georgia","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-iceland","tag-nation-india","tag-nation-israel","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-russia","tag-nation-saudi-arabia","tag-nation-south-korea","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-sweden","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-united-arab-emirates","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37306"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41333,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions\/41333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}