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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Violence against women is normalized. And because it's normalized we don't see it as a crisis."
Violence against women is normalized. And because its normalized we dont see it as a crisis.
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Wilcoxs work is filling a gap in data on femicide, typically defined as the killing of women and girls because of their gender, said Jodie Roure, an expert on violence against women in the Americas. The federal government tracks domestic violence killings, referred to as intimate partner homicides, but doesnt specifically compile data on femicide, Roure said, in part because the US hasnt adopted a standardized definition for the term as in some Latin American countries.
Without a centralized system to gather data on incidents of violence against women and girls, those crimes are underreported, Roure, who is a professor at John Jay College, said. The data that does exist we know is alarming, she added. Violence against women is normalized. And because its normalized we dont see it as a crisis.
The Violence Policy Center, which produces an annual report on female homicide victims based on FBI data, echoes Wilcoxs concerns about violence against women in the US. There arent adequate resources assigned to reducing it, the VPC legislative director, Kristen Rand, said. Congress let the landmark 1994 Violence Against Women Act expire during the most recent government shutdown.
But individual stories can help spur action, Rand said, and that is where Women Count USA comes in. People look at statistics and they too often dont see whats behind the statistics this humanizes the problem, Rand said. Every single one of those people is a human being with a family.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/11/the-nurse-tracking-americas-epidemic-of-murdered-women
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And yet Republicans continue to vote against VAWA. And insist there is no war on women.
niyad
(113,587 posts)sheshe2
(83,933 posts)Wilcox has spent much of the past two years scouring online news stories and social media for reports on women and girls killed by men in the US. She compiles their names in a publicly available spreadsheet and shares details about their lives and deaths with nearly 6,000 people on the Women Count USA Facebook page.
It is no small task. By Wilcoxs count, in 2018 it happened to at least 1,600 women and girls from Alaska to New York, of all races, ages and income status. They were killed in their beds and in their cars, at work and in yoga class, by their fathers, husbands, ex-boyfriends, cousins, sons, neighbors and strangers.
Thank you to women like Dawn.