MISSION

• NJEP's mission is to educate justice system professionals to dispel the harmful and persistent stereotypes about both sexes--women and girls and men and boys--that can undermine fairness and skew outcomes in civil, criminal, family and juvenile law cases.
• NJEP has a special focus on cases involving adult victims of sexual assault and the inersection of sexual assault and domestic violence.

AREAS OF FOCUS

• The fair adjudication of sexual assault cases (link)
• The intersection of sexual assault and domestic violence (link)
• Gender bias in the courts (link)
• NJEP defines gender bias as having three aspects:
• Stereotyped thinking about the nature and roles of women and men
• Devaluing what is perceived as "woman's work"
• Lack of knowledge of the social and economic realities of women’s and men’s lives

METHODS

• NJEP uses three primary methods to effectuate its advocacy: education, (link) publications, (link) and supporting the task forces on gender bias in the courts. (link)