Tasks Forces, Resources & Recessions

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The Gender Equity Task Force at the University of Texas at Austin has released its report, which recomends a 5-10 year gender equity plan that aims to "reduce or eliminate faculty gender inequity—specifically with respect to hiring, promotion, salaries and governance."

A year in the making, the report found that, not surprisingly, gaps "in areas of faculty representation, promotion and attrition for faculty advancing through the ranks, salary and leadership."

Read the the full report here.

Royal Tropical Institute have released a new toolkit for promoting gender equity in local governance. It can be found here.

Is the recession leading to a rise in domestic violence? Extremely stressful situations (and this is about as universally stressful as you can get) are often catalysts to acting out in a violent manner.

Super Bowl, Bell Bajao & Biblicaly Battered

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Increased reports of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday. Fact? Fiction? Either way it continues to propagate sexism.




According to Tom Holladay of the Saddleback Family feels that your spouse must be in the “habit of beating you regularly” for a separation to be "biblically" justified. Jocelyn Andersen would like to know “How many beatings would have to take place in order to qualify as regularly?”




"Bell Bajao" an international campaign takes WRC's pledge to "never remain silent" in the face of violence against women and expands it with an excellent media campaign.