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Take Action:

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A well sourced and important workbook/toolkit, Take Action: Fighting for Women and Girls covers the basics of activism and advocacy and gives the reader specific information about four issues related to girls, women and gender equality. The power and importance of education, expanding economic opportunities, eliminating gender-based violence and participating in politics and public life. This book will help would-be activists start their work and stay focused and goal-oriented.

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Author Biography

Stephenie Foster (she/her) has deep and broad expertise in women’s economic and political empowerment, with decades of experience on Capitol Hill, in the Executive Branch, the nonprofit sector, and the law. She has been fighting for women and girls her entire career – empowering women in Afghan war zones, monitoring elections in Ukraine, representing the U.S. State Department in meetings with government and civil society leaders, serving as a Chief of Staff in the U.S. Senate. Having traveled, lived, or worked in over 100 countries, she has consistently used her voice and actions to change discriminatory laws and policies and help shift cultural norms and inequalities. She is a founding partner of Smash Strategies, which provides strategic advice to corporations, institutions, and philanthropists to ensure that their investments in women and girls are effective and transformational. You can reach her at StephenieFoster.com.

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Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Activism and advocacy are about asking the right questions to the right people. Who has the power to make the change you're seeking? Who would be impacted by that change? Women and men are treated differently throughout society...learning to ask the right questions makes a difference in effective advocacy/activism. Take Action: Fighting for Women & Girls walks you through how to create a power map of the decision makers and how to identify the most concise questions to ask. This guide will help you narrow your focus, get motivated and ask the questions you need to make the change you know is possible in the world.

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Take Action:

DATA DRIVES POLICY CHANGE

Sex-disaggregated data highlights the differing experiences, needs, constraints, and opportunities for women, girls, men, and boys. Data disaggregated by sex is critical to structuring policies and programs.

This means asking “who questions” in a meeting, a call, an email, or a survey:

• Who owns land?

• Who works in a certain job category?

• Who drops out of secondary school?

• Who serves on corporate boards?

• Who is being hired?

• Who goes to engineering or nursing school?

• Who is elected to office?

It also means collecting information about the different ways in which women, men, girls, and boys are treated.

• Are women and men paid differently for the same job?

• Are they promoted at the same rate?

• Do they have the same access to the internet?

• Do girls and boys obtain birth certificates when they are born?

• How often are girls and boys called on by their teachers in the classroom?

The questions are endless.

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Stephenie Foster

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