NEW STUDY: Translating Girls’ Education to Women’s Equality. May 2022

 

Plus how we go the last mile to reach girls who are still missing out

View on web     New from CGD:     From Girls’ Education to Equality for Women   Hi Charles, Girls today are getting more education than ever before. But despite the many benefits that girls’ education offers and all the progress we have seen, the impact of girls' education on economic equality is falling short. The global education community champions the value of girls’ education as not only a moral imperative but a smart investment. And it is! But it isn’t enough by itself. For women and girls around the world, just because you have the same level of education as your male peer doesn’t guarantee that you won’t be paid a fraction of what he is earning, or be unable to work because you spend so much of your time doing unpaid household labor or childcare. It doesn’t guarantee you won’t be more likely to experience violence by men. It doesn’t guarantee you’ll have the same chance at prosperity, or that the society your children grow up in will be more equal. Why is this still the case, and what can education systems, partners, and societies do about it? Our new report, “Girls’ Education and Women’s Equality: How to Get More out of the World’s Most Promising Investment,” helps us answer this question. This report builds on decades of important work on what works to get girls into school and help them learn, but goes on to make a series of recommendations for a more holistic approach to investing in girls’ futures including implementing policies that protect women from discrimination in the labor market. We also recommend that education systems do more to support gender equality by making sure schools are safe for girls, rooting out discrimination, and supporting girls in the school-to-work transition. Warm Regards, Shelby Carvalho, Senior Policy Analyst & David Evans, Senior Fellow   Find out more   Download the report     Key Takeaways   1   Despite increases in access to education for girls, when it comes to women working, little has changed in 30 years.        2   Even with all this progress in access to education, poor, rural girls are still being left behind and the pandemic has pushed them back even further.        3   Education aid is struggling to address root causes of inequality in the classroom.   In the past 20yrs, top donors have focused on infrastructure and learning, but much less on gender bias, safety, child marriage or other barriers.         4   There are proven interventions which improve girls’ access to education & the quality of that education.   Eliminating fees, providing meals, and instruction for girls who have fallen behind are interventions which have been proven to work and should be scaled up.       5   For girls education to pay off fully, countries must take additional measures to address inequality in society.   Measures like employing policies that protect women from discrimination in the labor market; laws around equal pay; and policies that support women where they face disproportionate burdens such as in providing childcare.         Watch this space for more content on how to get the best out of the world’s most promising investment.   Help us spread the word by sharing this research on social media (here’s a prewritten tweet you can share), or by forwarding this email to a colleague.   Use our social toolkit

Black Renters Can't Afford 93% of Zip Codes In Top U.S. Cities: Report May 2022

 

Black Renters Can't Afford 93% of Zip Codes In Top U.S. Cities: Report     Researchers found that Black renters couldn’t afford to live in 93% of zip codes in the Top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas in 2019, while 69% of those zip codes were affordable to white households. Reporters say 48 zip codes metro areas had no zip codes that were affordable to Black tenants. https://api.secondstreetapp.com/m_c_t/40447785/177794997

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National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

‘This is a U.S. problem:’ Families gather in Farmington to raise awareness about MMIWR

By Hannah Grover

Becky Martinez wipes away tears, Thursday, May 5, 2022, while talking about her brother, Calvin Martinez, who went missing about three years ago.

Rose Yazzie last spoke to her daughter, Ranelle Rose Bennett, in June of last year. They were talking about a birthday party for Bennett’s daughter, Yazzie’s granddaughter.

Yazzie recalls that her daughter hugged her for longer than usual. Looking back, she wonders if she missed the signs that something was wrong.

She hasn’t seen or heard from her daughter since, and Yazzie is frustrated with the lack of attention the police have given the case.

Bennett, Diné, is one of an unknown number of missing or murdered Indigenous people in New Mexico whose case remains unsolved.

Yazzie attended a rally on Thursday in Farmington to raise awareness about the number of Native Americans who are missing or murdered. This rally took place on the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and on what would have been Zachariah Juwaun Shorty’s 25th birthday. He was murdered in July 2020.

His mother, Evangeline “Vangie” Randall-Shorty, Diné, was one of the organizers as she seeks information about her son’s death and who killed him.

“It’s heartbreaking. It’s a nightmare that I live every single day,” she said. “I carry this heaviness. And it’s like, there’s a hole in my heart, but it’s so damn heavy. It’s heartbreaking.”

Vangie Randall-Shorty talks about her son, Zachariah, during a rally in Farmington.

She said she wants her son’s murderer caught and she wants to sit in the courtroom as the killer is sentenced.

“He was a fun-loving person,” she said about her son. “He wasn’t done because life was just beginning. He had a beautiful daughter who he loved very much. I love him. He loved me. I have no hesitation in expressing that.”

The group of primarily Native American families gathered on the side of San Juan Boulevard in Farmington outside of Berg Park and next to a billboard that, at times, displays information about two Native Americans who were killed and whose cases have not been solved. Shorty is one of those two people. Paying for that billboard took a concerted fundraising effort.

A woman with a megaphone called out “Justice for” and another person responded by shouting the name of a Native American who has gone missing or has been murdered.

Resources needed

Late last month New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, surrounded by representatives of missing and murdered Indigenous individuals, spoke to the media about his frustration over a lack of legislative funding and resources to help the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and men.

“Many have incomplete investigative work with next to no victim advocacy; they have no answers on where the status of their case is,” Balderas said

He also said he was implementing SB 12, which mandates the Attorney General’s office to create the position of a missing Indigenous person specialist.

But he said the bill was “not good enough and not strong enough.”

Balderas spoke of the jurisdictional issues that also plague missing and murdered Indigenous individuals which advocates have called a crisis.

Randall-Shorty said during Balderas’ press conference that her family had put up a $10,000 reward to help find the person responsible for her son’s death.

“There is a $10,000 reward that comes out of our pockets. We don’t have the resources and that’s what we need,” she said.

New Mexico releases response plan

The epidemic of violence that Indigneous people face led to the state releasing a response plan on Thursday.

“It is critical that we use every available tool to deliver critical resources to the loved ones of missing Indigenous women and relatives across New Mexico, bringing more awareness and public attention to these important cases and ensuring their families have the support they deserve,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a press release Thursday announcing the response plan.

New Mexico has the highest number of missing and murdered Native Americans in the country and two cities—Albuquerque and Gallup—are reported to have had more Native American women and girls go missing or be murdered in a five-year time frame than nearly 70 other urban centers in the United States, according to the introduction in the newly-released response plan.

A rally in Farmington raises awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives.

The response plan calls for increasing support services to help people who are in crisis, developing community outreach programs as well as education and prevention strategies, developing resources so that when someone goes missing there can be a strong response, and building capacity within current systems, including the judicial system.

It also calls for creation of a memorandum of understanding between law enforcement agencies to facilitate better communication, including sharing of information, and establishing a MMIWR office that has a team tasked with investigating cold cases.

The plan also calls for inclusion of Tribal affiliation when documenting missing people, homicides or human trafficking cases.

Race and response

For Darlene Gomez, an attorney, these stories are all too familiar. Gomez has a dozen clients she represents who have missing or murdered relatives. She said she started on that path in 2001 after Betty Lee, Diné, was murdered. Gomez was an intern at the time. Robert Fry, a Farmington resident, was ultimately convicted and given the death sentence. He has also been convicted of several other murders. Fry is one of three New Mexicans on death row, having been sentenced prior to the state banning capital punishment.

Later one of Gomez’ friends, Melissa Montoya, would go missing. She remains missing to this date.

Gomez was part of the task force that worked to compile a state’s response plan that was released on Thursday. She described it as a good first step.

“This is not just a Native American problem,” she said during a speech at the rally. “This is a U.S. problem.”

She said race plays a role in the crimes remaining unsolved for years. Not all of her clients have been Native American. Gomez said when a white person went missing and she represented the white person’s family, there was greater attention from the media and the body was quickly found.

Some people at the rally mentioned the nationwide search that ensued when Gabby Petito, a white woman who was blogging about van life while traveling with her fiance, went missing. It didn’t take long for her body to be found. If that type of attention was given to the Native Americans who have gone missing, perhaps their cases could be solved as well, some people said.

Yazzie said if there had been that kind of response to her daughter’s disappearance, perhaps Bennett would already have been found.

Gomez said Petito’s disappearance brought more attention to the issue of people going missing, including Native Americans.

“I want people to know that these individuals murdered Indigenous men and women, they are you and they are me and their lives matter just like anyone else’s lives,” Gomez said. “They have mothers, they have siblings, they have children and no one is put on this earth to be killed.”

Having the day in court where they can face the person who killed their loved one is important to the families, Gomez said.

But it doesn’t fix everything, as Heaven Howland, Jicarilla Apache, pointed out. Howland’s brother, Travis Howland, was abducted, tortured and killed by their cousins. Their cousins were found guilty after a lengthy judicial process.

“Even though they catch the killers, your loved one is still gone,” Howland said during a short speech she gave at the rally.

Susan Dunlap contributed to this report.

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‘This is a U.S. problem:’ Families gather in Farmington to raise awareness about MMIWR Rose Yazzie last spoke to her daughter, Ranelle Rose Bennett, in June of last year. They were talking about a birthday party for Bennett’s daughter, Yazzie’s granddaughter. Yazzie recalls that her daughter hugged her for longer than usual. Looking back, she wonders if she missed the signs that something was wrong. She hasn’t seen or […] nmpoliticalreport.com

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