Advocacy Frameworks: Ending VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What theories of social and behavioral change inform current advocacy to end VAWG?
Prevention of VAWG requires deep societal transformation in norms, structures, and institutions. ...
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A Brief History of Women’s Sport
Jaime Schultz
in Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How long have women played sport?
Women have always engaged in various sport forms. Much of our knowledge about these activities is pieced together from archeological evidence, ...
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Challenges of Causing Change
David Bornstein and Susan Davis
in Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the main financial constraints?
It is often assumed that start-up capital is a significant hurdle for social entrepreneurs. Although it is never easy to obtain the ...
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Conflict-Related VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is VAWG inevitable during war and armed conflict?
No, it is not. Yet VAWG appears to have always been a part of warfare. Historically, VAWG during war and armed conflict has been ...
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Culture and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is the recognition of VAWG universal or culturally relative?
Violence against women and girls presents itself in different forms across all cultures. Culture itself is a dynamic ...
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Defining Social Entrepreneurship
David Bornstein and Susan Davis
in Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is social entrepreneurship?
Social entrepreneurship is a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, ...
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Development, Poverty, and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is VAWG a “developing country”problem?
Violence against women and girls is a problem everywhere, affecting women and girls of all ages, in all locations, and regardless of income ...
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Economics and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What economic factors affect VAWG?
There are many economic factors that affect the incidence and prevalence of VAWG. As discussed in chapter 9, poverty is a key player, along with ...
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Education, Schools, and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is VAWG perpetrated at school and through educational processes and curricula?
School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) and VAWG occurring within the context of ...
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Employment, Precarity, and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What type of VAWG occurs at work?
There are several types of VAWG that can occur in the context of employment and “precarious work,” which refers to work that is typically low ...
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Envisioning an Innovating Society
David Bornstein and Susan Davis
in Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is social entrepreneurship changing minds?
In describing the causes of poverty, Muhammad Yunus has often compared a poor person to a bonsai tree. The seed of a bonsai has the ...
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Gender and Sport
Jaime Schultz
in Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Do the terms “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing?
The terms “sex” and “gender” are often used interchangeably, but there are important differences between them. Sex refers to ...
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Historical Struggle
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did VAWG first gain recognition?
Violence against women and girls—from marital rape and wife battering to sexual abuse and harassment—has largely been hidden in recorded ...
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The Influence of Title IX
Jaime Schultz
in Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is Title IX?
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It states, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of ...
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International Security and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is VAWG a threat to international peace and security?
Gender-based violence against women, girls, men, boys, and gender-diverse groups invokes conflict and fuels acts of ...
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Introduction and Definitions
Justin Gest
in The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does it mean to be “white”?
“Race” is a man-made concept that gives social meaning to the shade of one’s skin. There is no biological basis or scientific definition for being ...
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Legal Frameworks: National and International
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What national laws cover VAWG? In how many countries is VAWG still not a crime?
National laws covering VAWG vary drastically throughout the world. In some countries, they are ...
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Mapping VAWG Globally
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is VAWG a global epidemic?
Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. It has been described as the most prevalent yet least recognized human rights violation, ...
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Men, Masculinities, and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How does masculinity affect VAWG?
Why is it the case that men perpetrate the vast majority of all VAWG? While not all men commit this violence, being a man is a significant risk ...
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Migration, Human Trafficking, and VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What forms of VAWG do migrant women workers most frequently experience at work?
Women and girls are increasingly on the move. In some cases, gender-based violence is pushing them ...
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