Wise Practices
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- Economic Security
- Access to Fair Work
- Support women migrant labourers to access work opportunities and fair working conditions.
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- Safety
- Blue Phones & SafeWalk Programs on College Campuses
- Bluelight security system technology and late-night walking programs, such as SafeWalk, are preventative measures to ensure students, specifically women and gender queer individuals, feel safe on campus (especially after dark).
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- Safety
- Bystander Intervention Training on College Campuses
- University campuses around the world often implement these programs towards the beginning of the school year in an effort to educate students, particularly incoming students, about the importance of speaking up and stepping in when witnessing others in potentially vulnerable and exploitative situations.
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- Economic Security
- City Partnership with Crowdfunding Ecosystem
- City of Boston partners with a crowdsourcing platform to help local women entrepreneurs.
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- Safety
- College Campus Reporting Options for Sexual Violence
- Callisto is a technology-based non-profit organization specifically designed by survivors of sexual assault to support survivors. It is designed to report their experience and seek outside help from their university, in case they do not feel safe reporting their assault to campus authorities. They partner with college campus support groups and individual students to help victims of sexual assault report…
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- Childcare & Elder Care
- Council Kids Child Minding for Council Meetings
- The City of North Vancouver provides free child-minding for parents attending Council meetings.
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- Safety
- Crowd Source Safety Audit
- Online crowd sourcing safety audit in public spaces to identify areas of concern.
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- Health
- Digital Library Resources
- Create a digital library resource for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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- Transportation
- Engage Women Nightshift Workers
- Conduct feminist participatory action research with women nightshift workers.
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- Diversity & Inclusion, Education
- Engendering Success in STEM
- An evidence-based approach to break down the biases girls and women face on their pathways to STEM.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Feminist Urban Planning
- Include an intersectional feminist perspective in urban planning.
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- Health
- Free Provision of Period Products in Scotland
- Period products (like sanitary pads & tampons), are available for free to people who need them.
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- Diversity & Inclusion
- Gender & Inclusion Strategies
- Develop a civic strategy for gender and diversity inclusion and equity.
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- Safety
- Gender and Safety Audit Tool for Events and Venues
- Event and venue guides to help address safety and security risks for women.
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- Safety, Transportation
- Gender Audit on Train Stations for Catalan Rail Company
- A gender-based audit on Catalonian train stations to understand women’s perceptions of safety.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Gender Impact Analysis/Assessment
- Conduct a gender impact analysis / assessment (GIAA) on all municipal promotional materials prior to use.