In Washington, the New America Foundation sponsors something called the New Models of Policy Change initiative. In studying gender and security issues, NMPC highlighted four emerging data trends/
- Political violence targeting women is on the rise.
ACLED found that there were twice as many violent events targeting women worldwide in the first quarter of 2019 as compared to the same period in 2018.
2) Anti-women attitudes remain pervasive
Twenty five years after the Beijing Conference declared that women’s rights are human rights, Equal Measures 2030 reports that in 2019, nearly 40 percent of the world’s women and girls—that’s 1.4 billion people—live in countries that received a failing grade on gender equality.
3) Women are underrepresented in security policy positions.
A recent study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—a government agency that conducts investigations at Congress’s behest—found there had been no progress in increasing the proportion of women working at the State Department between Fiscal Year (FY) 2002, when 44 percent of employees were women, and FY2018, when that same proportion was 43 percent.
4) Women are key to effective protest movements.
Dr. Erica Chenoweth’s Women in Resistance (WiRe) dataset—which catalogues women’s participation in resistance movements—found that women’s roles in such protest movements is key both in ensuring that protests remain non-violent and in helping the movement succeed in its aims.
Source: Four Key Global Trends on Gender, Security and Safety – Ms. Magazine
