Changing the Culture to Prevent Sexual Harassment in US Middle and High School
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1559157278407{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]While the #MeToo movement gains ground to change across industries as varied as entertainment, the military, and higher education, almost no attention has been given to sexual harassment against adolescents in school, despite clear demonstration that these types of abuses all too often start in early adolescence. The Measuring #MeToo: A […]
UC San Diego Today – Report Finds California Above National Average for Sexual Harassment Rates
Press Release – Katherine Hay joins UCSD and GEH In the article, “Study: Violence dropped in California — but was alarmingly high for this group” by author Graph Massara, new research from GEH’s California Violence Experiences Survey (CalVEX) was used to discuss “grim rates” of violence against trans and nonbinary people, despite overall reductions in […]
Exploring the Rise of Congenital Syphilis in California and Louisiana
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1556301857975{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Congenital syphilis (CS) is caused by a bacteria called Treponema pallidum passed from mother to child during fetal development or at birth. CS is entirely preventable through prenatal screening and treatment of an infected pregnant woman. Despite its preventability, there were 918 recorded cases of congenital syphilis in the U.S. in 2017 – […]
Bringing Women to the Forefront of Climate Change Adaptations Efforts: A New SDG Target
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1552076700068{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Women play a critical role in a natural resources management within their household. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), 8 out of 10 women are responsible for collecting water for their household. Women are responsible for over 70% of water-related chores and management globally. In India alone, women make up over […]
Very Young Married Adolescents
I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, USA, with my parents and younger brother. When I was about 14 years old, I was in the eighth grad and was attending middle school. I was focused on my studies, my friends, and singing in the school choir. My story is not too different from many very young […]
Unintended Consequences of Using Education to Address Gender Inequalities and Girl Child Marriage
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1555091891808{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Education benefits girls and women around the world in a myriad of ways, including increased career opportunities,1,2 better maternal child health outcomes,1,3 and delaying child marriage 4. For these reasons, education has played significant roles in deterring girl child marriage and the inequalities stemming from it (i.e. poor reproductive health and family […]
GEH Participates in Validation Workshop to Wrap Up 3-Year Learning from SASA! Adaptations Project
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1544478602309{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In September 2018, UC San Diego Center on Gender Equity and Health researchers, Jennifer Wagman and Eunhee Park, joined colleagues from Raising Voices Uganda, Beyond Borders Haiti, Women’s Promotion Center Tanzania and International Rescue Committee Kenya for a 3-day validation workshop in Kampala, Uganda. Raising Voices – a nonprofit organization working […]
Pay Attention: Child Marriage in Emergency
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1544478602309{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Child marriage, a formal or informal union of a child before the age of 18, has impacted 650 million women throughout the world. While data show that the rate of child marriage globally has decreased, refugees in emergency settings are a group that cannot be ignored. There are 68.5 million refugees, […]
Tritons for Gender Equity (T4GE): One of UCSD’s Newest Student Organizations
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1544551084843{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]What is Tritons for Gender Equity? Tritons for Gender Equity (T4GE) is a student organization at UC San Diego that began its work with campus communities and organizations in April of this year. T4GE is open to anyone affiliated with UC San Diego, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, […]
Improving Quantitative Measurement of Gender Equality and Empowerment – EMERGE Website Now Live
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1544552961445{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Despite growing interest in improving gender equality globally, there exist only a limited number of tools to effectively assess and/or evaluate gender-responsive programming and policy change. In a report by UN Women, it was estimated that there is a lack of measures for 80% of indicators used to assess Sustainable Development […]
