What Works - Galway

@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.

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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 https://t.co/DFATbaOle7

[Centre for Global Women's Studies, UniofGalway @CGWSuniofgalway]

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

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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. https://t.co/TDTkEeFky4

[Günseli Berik @gberik]

Great, timely piece on feminist economics! ⁦@feministEcon @iaffe ⁩ Rice’s Diana Strassmann on controversial journal ‘Feminist Economics’ 25 years after its founding - https://t.co/C7rH86BT5B https://t.co/Dn3SF9760l

[Kate Bahn @LipstickEcon]

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. https://t.co/v6xtqKHYa5

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Situations where violence is acceptable, according to a study with young people (<30) in southern Punjab Pakistan. #ECDV2019

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At #ECDV2019 Kashif Siddique describes the pervasiveness of wife beating in Pakistan. He looks at reasons for justification of the practice.

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Policy makers attitudes to violence have transformed in 40 years - commitment now needs to be backed up.

[John Devaney @JDev65]

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

[AkiDwA @AkiDwA]

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

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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

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Our project coordinator Stacey Scriver describes

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Our project coordinator stacey Scriver describes qual research on social impacts of #ipv on women in ghana & Pakistan. #ECDV2019

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Our project coordinator Stacey Scriver describes

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At the European conference on domestic violence #ECDV2019. Incredible opening by Rebecca & Russell dobash on 40 years of international activism and research.

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Diane Elson: absence of information of intersectional economic impact data. Importance of finding that austerity disproportionately impacts poorer black + ethnic minority women. #IAFFE2019

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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

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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.
#IAFFE2019

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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

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Pratap mohanty shares the lasting impact of early marriage in India on women and their childre. #IAFFE2019

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@Cballantine spoke about social costs of violence, an area that requires much more study. Here she highlights areas that are well researched and those that are not #IAFFE2019

[Jacqueline Strenio @jacki_strenio]

Social costs of VAWG vastly understudied but have far-reaching consequences, including into wider community says @Cballantine of @WhatWorksGalway #IAFFE2019