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Today we focus on women.Happy International Women’s Day, 2024.I fortuitously came upon the video attached which is a poignant reminder of the cost of motherhood. The woman, Angela Davidson is being conferred a degree by her university which she attended in 1960!! While in her final year, she became pregnant and had to drop out. Fast forward - 2024 the University has determined that the inability to support her at that time despite being almost at the end of her degree was an untenable position and on review, made the decision to award her the degree!A piece by the Economist - Cost of Motherhood expounds on the negative declining cost in women’s earning power resulting from motherhood. A study by PWC reveals that there is indeed a ‘motherhood penalty’, meaning, the loss in lifetime earnings experienced by women raising children—characterised by underemployment and slower career progression after returning to work. Mothers experience a 60% drop in earnings compared to fathers in a whopping 10years!!As we celebrate IWD 2024, all leaders and decision makers need to understand the urgent responsibility to assiduously address these inequities.Let’s eliminate any financial penalty associated with motherhood, let’s invest in women, accelerate progress and #inspireinclusion.

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https://lnkd.in/dPve5Gh8That's the point. Livestock is: food, feed, fertilizers, biodiversity, soil health, crop systems and diverisity, rural and mountain areas preservation, land preservation, textiles, drugs, leather, petfood, food security, bioavailable and high quality nutrients for our kids, elderly people and moms, gender equality, economic growth, social cohesion, cultural heritage and human beings wider culture and roots.

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Nice to see the NYT covering this important story of how more women are taking the lead in protecting the environment in traditionally male roles. For the original story, check out the Asia Foundation here: https://lnkd.in/eGnvjJiqhttps://lnkd.in/ekjFnrjn

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#GederedLens | Read more on 'How young South African Women are leading the way to #GrowingASweetFuture' in the article below. #SDG5 #SDGs #Gender

Check out this Technical guidance note from FAO and Anne Maftei. The financial gap for women inclusion and access to finance is a regional challenge. There is need for more innovation at systematic level to create more opportunities for women especially young women in business.

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What are the the mysterious origins of patriarchy? Follow the… need for person power.”Gender made little difference for people living 9,000 years ago in Çatalhöyük, in modern-day Turkey: men and women had identical diets and did similar kinds of work. So what changed? History points to patriarchy beginning not with agriculture, work that requires physical strength, but with those in power. “Person power is the key to power in general,” explains anthropologist James Scott. The elites in the first states needed people to produce resources for them and to defend the state. Women were expected to focus on having more babies and were eventually pushed into the domestic shadows.”#womenhealth #mentalhealth #health #womenempoweringwomen #womenentrepreneurs #womenhealthcare #women #womeninstemm #genderequality #genderequity #genderpaygap #genderbasedviolence #domesticviolence #domesticabuse #equality #equalopportunities #equalpay #diversity #inclusion https://lnkd.in/gH9bNUZS

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In many organizations #DEIB is a hot topic and there are many activities on how to improve the situation. As with many impact topics, I often see people do a lot to make things better for everyone but rarely is it clear how the actual impact or progress towards it is measured.Last year, I had the pleasure to support a group of researchers who look at #GenderTransformativeChange in #agriculture development projects. The results of their efforts have now been published.Here are the high-level recommendations, which I believe are valid also for other initiatives trying to foster inclusion:- Identify the core area(s) of gender equality to be measured: What are you concretely trying to achieve?- Distinguish between reach, benefit, empower and gender transformative change indicators: There is a difference between reaching 100 women in a training, and actually transforming their lives. What are you trying to achieve and are you using the right mechanism to achieve that?- Consider intersectionality in the indicator design process: When we look at gender, we also have to understand how other social identities (e.g. age, race, class) shape people's experiences- Recognize insider perspectives when measuring gender transformative change: Insiders are the people you are trying to help as opposed to those designing and facilitating an initiative. Is what we consider good, also good from the perspective of the people we want to support?- Develop outcome indicators and identify incremental changes to measure: Do not just measure the end results but think about how you can measure progress to the ultimate outcome you want.- Strike a balance between qualitative and quantitative indicators: Quantitative indicators help us understand larger patterns and trends and prevent us thinking we had a great impact when in fact it was just the 3 people we talked to who experienced change. Qualitative indicators help us interpret the quantitative data, as well as provide an understanding about why things have changed the way they did, which can guide the design of future initiatives.You can find the full guidelines here: https://lnkd.in/dtKtMRsZ#diversity #inclusion #gender #impact

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Always looking to improve my use of #InclusionaryLanguage in the #woman-focused programming I help to offer in the #forestry sector and beyond.https://lnkd.in/djCKqn_2

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Help, thoughts wanted! How to statistically treat gender nonconforming participants in surveys about animal attitudes?What are people's takes on how to "bin" non-binary and gender nonconforming participants in surveys involving animal attitudes? Given there's strong gender associations with animal attitudes (where women tend to show more positive/empathetic animal attitudes vs. men, all else equal [though there are cultural differences that modulate these]), it's important we include gender as a question in many of our surveys. But in assessing gender effects or associations on outcomes, I struggle with how to treat non-binary and gender NC respondents. There's usually only a few and I don't want to throw them out, so I think that leaves me to batching them with either women-identifying or men-identifying participants. I've heard cases for binning them with men so as to compare "women-identifying" against "everyone else", but my intuition would suggest that non-binary individuals may be more empathetic to animals given ideas about intersectionality, so perhaps it's better to batch them with women? Any suggested readings or thoughts to justify in one direction or other (or another option) are very welcome!

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“Developing confidence takes time and practice, but we all have something unique to offer, and we can take conscious steps to help ourselves to realise it”Want to develop your confidence at work? Jenny Langridge reveals 5 ways to cultivate #confidence in our latest Veterinary Woman column: https://lnkd.in/e2eP3XEF#veterinarypractice #veterinary #leadership #personaldevelopment

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