Wise Practices
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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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- Economic Security
- City Partnership with Crowdfunding Ecosystem
- City of Boston partners with a crowdsourcing platform to help local women entrepreneurs.
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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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- 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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- 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.
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- Infrastructure & Services, Transportation, Urban Spaces
- Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Planning in Vienna
- Gender mainstreaming is implemented in the Strategy Plan for Vienna, the Urban Development Plan and sectoral programmes, master plans and urban design concepts as well as in numerous individual projects. The aim is to provide an attractive main route network for “slow” traffic and a shift of priorities towards slower road users. People with care-giving tasks, women, children as well…
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- Economic Security, Governance & Leadership
- Gender Wage Gap Municipal Audit
- The Seoul Metropolitan Government performs a biannual gender wage gap audit that publicly discloses the wages of male and female employees at the 22 organizations it supports or funds. This audit is a first attempt of local government and can be a driving force for its spread to the central government and other local governments.
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- Housing & Land Rights
- Gender-sensitive Housing in Vienna – Frauen-Werk-Stadt (Women-Work-City)
- Frauen-Werk-Stadt is the first gender-sensitive housing project designed by women in Vienna, Austria.
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- Safety
- Good Night Out
- Helps nightlife spaces better understand, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment and assault.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Guide for Municipal Action on Women’s Equity
- An overview of key issues facing women and concrete opportunities for Municipal Government to take action and move forward on women’s equity.
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- Governance & Leadership
- Hot Pink Paper Campaign
- Obtain commitments on women's issues from civic candidates prior to elections.