@WhatWorksVAWG is a global program to prevent Violence against Women and Girls. Component 3 seeks to document the economic & social costs of violence. #VAWG
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We’re beginning our panel on social & economic costs of violence against women. @DuvvuryN introduces the study: funded by @DFID_Press the study seeks to make the case for investing to prevent violence.
Good workplaces are safe workplaces in which there is zero tolerance for violence. | 16 Days Campaign
Our blog on the links between intimate partner violence and workers rights by @Cballantine @DuvvuryN and Caroline Forde 16dayscampaign.org/2019/11/2…
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Global Women's Studies marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Research on VAW and impacts on paid work presented in Vilnius, Lithuania @DFID_UK
Precarious work makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence | openDemocracy
Workplaces must join the fight against violence - and that means providing secure conditions for all workers. opendemocracy.net/en/ourecon…
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Great, timely piece on feminist economics! @feministEcon @iaffe Rice’s Diana Strassmann on controversial journal ‘Feminist Economics’ 25 years after its founding - HoustonChronicle.com houstonchronicle.com/busines…
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Exciting news! @FeministEcon just published my research with @AnnieMcGrew1, Melissa Mahoney of @uncavl, and Adriana Kugler of @McCourtSchool - "Do US TRAP Laws Trap Women Into Bad Jobs?" in a special issue on reproductive rights. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Situations where violence is acceptable, according to a study with young people (<30) in southern Punjab Pakistan. #ECDV2019
At #ECDV2019 Kashif Siddique describes the pervasiveness of wife beating in Pakistan. He looks at reasons for justification of the practice.
Policy makers attitudes to violence have transformed in 40 years - commitment now needs to be backed up.
The Dobashes talking at #ECDV2019 about the journey in addressing violence against women - a very telling quote from 1970s about attitudes by those in power
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Early marriage involves girls and women paying a huge price Not only are girls taken out of school, many have
to leave their families and some are forced to endure lifelong health problems as a result of #FGM #AkiDwA is working to break these links
Pratap mohanty shares the lasting impact of early marriage in India on women and their childre. #IAFFE2019
The project didn’t set out to explore geographies of violence, but in interviews women spoke in terms of spaces, so this is what we explored #ECDV2019
At the European conference on domestic violence #ECDV2019. Incredible opening by Rebecca & Russell dobash on 40 years of international activism and research.
Diane Elson: absence of information of intersectional economic impact data. Importance of finding that austerity disproportionately impacts poorer black + ethnic minority women. #IAFFE2019
Heidi Hartmann of @IWPResearch notes we don’t have enough data on the costs of violence against women; also the cost of lack of access to abortion. #IAFFE2019
Shahra Razavi also highlights the importance of costing work for influencing policy. Our project costing violence against women and girls aims to do just this.
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If you want to move institutions, you have to make cost benefit analyses, use instrumental arguments, says @CarenGrown of the @WorldBank #IAFFE2019
Pratap mohanty shares the lasting impact of early marriage in India on women and their childre. #IAFFE2019
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Social costs of VAWG vastly understudied but have far-reaching consequences, including into wider community says @Cballantine of @WhatWorksGalway #IAFFE2019
Come along to our panel on the economic and social impacts of violence against women today after lunch 🥗
28th Annual IAFFE Conference Panel Persistent Inequality: Economic and Social Impacts of Violence Against Women and Girls #IAFFE2019 #VAWG
@DuvvuryN @Cballantine @GlobalWS_NUIG
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Crucially, the cumulative loss over time is very significant, as the slide shows. The multiplier analysis demonstrates this.
As @Cballantine will be presenting next, no live tweeting, since she manages this account!