The Impact of Violence in the Lives of Working Women Creating Solutions — Creating Change.
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A 15-point implementation plan to achieve gender fairness in the courts from the Gender Fairness Strategies Project and NJEP. This manual provides a guide to integrate and institutionalize strategies to address gender fairness and access in the courts.
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Legal Momentum-sponsored survey confirmed that parents were not provided with adequate information about child care. Responding to advocacy by NOW Legal Defense and Bronx Legal Services, New York State and City issued directives specifically designed to ensure that caseworkers provide parents with child care information. A follow-up survey demonstrated that the directives were not being followed.
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A 2001 speech published in the Women's Rights Law Report about California's innovation in gender justice in the courts.
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This brochure provides statistics on domestic violence victims and costs, how domestic violence affects and unions, and guidance on creating an environment where what was traditionally seen as a “private” problem can be openly and effectively addressed.
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This brochure for small business employers provides statistics on domestic violence victims and costs, how domestic violence affects and unions, and guidance on creating an environment where what was traditionally seen as a “private” problem can be openly and effectively addressed.
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This article explores problems women of color face at every level and in every aspect of the judicial system, as litigants, witnesses, defendants, employees, lawyers, and judges. The article summarizes concerns detailed in depth in NJEP's When Bias Compounds: Insuring Equal Justice for Women in the Courts curriculum.
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Judges impose minimal sentences on abusers, trivializing violence against women. This article recounts cases, the intense response of the communities in which these sentences were imposed, and the ways in which judicial selection, election, education, evaluation and discipline can be used to prevent recurrence of this type of gender bias.
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This article illustrates the concept of the law as male by analogizing it to the medical community's treatment of the male body as the norm. It gives examples of how "male law" harms women and discusses the types of education needed to counter gender bias in the courts. 69 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 397 (1993)
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