Resources: Research Reports

A Change of Pace

A Change of Pace: Accelerating Women’s Progress is an assessment of women’s socioeconomic status in the region and shows where women stand in terms of earnings, occupations, housing, safety, caregiving, health care, retirement benefits, reproductive rights, and political representation. A Change of Pace also serves as a call to action through specific policy recommendations shaped by a community advisory board made up of many WOMEN’S WAY funded agencies.

Preventing Violence Against Women and Children

Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to everyone, women and children are particularly susceptible to victimization because they often have fewer rights or lack appropriate means of protection. In some societies certain types of violence are deemed socially or legally acceptable, thereby contributing further to the risk to women and children. In the past decade research has documented the growing magnitude of such violence, but gaps in the data still remain.

The Global Gender Report 2011

This report was published by the World Economic Forum.  Over the last six years, while 85% of countries are improving their gender equality ratios, for the rest of the world the situation is declining, most notably in several African and South American countries. The sixth annual World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2011 shows a slight decline over the last year in gender equality rankings for New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom this year, while gains are made in Brazil, Ethiopia, Qatar, Tanzania and Turkey.