Expand your knowledge

Knowledge is power! Throughout my research for Her Voice, I read some amazing books, I trawled academic papers, and I found hundred of articles. Reading them alongside the interviews I was conducting gave me a deeper understanding and context in which to understand the inspiring stories I was collecting. I have listed them below - and a few others too!

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Books

Women Who Love Too Much. By Robin Norwood
Fix the system, not the women. By Laura Bates
Women Who Run With The Wolves. By Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Invisible Women: exposing data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez

Articles

Harvard: Women and pain - Disparities in experience and treatment
Association of American Medical Colleges: Why we know so little about women's health
Science Daily: Across diseases, women are diagnosed later than men.
Oxfam: Not all gaps are created equal: the true value of care work
The Women's History Archives - Women's Day Off 1975
Telegraph: Misogyny and racial bias routinely putting patients at risk
McKinsey: Inclusion Matters
Harvard Business Review: Why Diverse Teams are Smarter
McKinsey: Diversity Wins: how inclusion matters
Guardian: Gender equality stalling or going backwards for 1bn women and girls
Euronews: This is the only country in Europe that pays women more than men

Reports

UN Women: Progress of the World's Women
UN Women: The Gender Snapshot 2024
UN Women - Forecasting time spent in unpaid care and domestic work
International Labour Organisation - World Social Protection Report 2020-2022
Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Global Report 2019
UN Department of Statistics - The World's Women 2020
International Labour Office, Geneva - the Motherhood Pay Gap
FTSE Women Leaders: 2024 Report
World Bank Report: New data shows massive, wider than expected, gender gap (2024)
World Economic Forum: Gender Gap Report 2024
Victims Commissioner Report: the distressing truth
McKinsey: Women in the Workplace 2024

Sources of Data

ILOSTAT - Measuring unpaid domestic and care work
World Economic Forum: Global Gender Gap Reporting 2023
Eurostat - Gender Gap Data
ONS - Sexual offences prevalence and victim characteristics, England and Wales
Rape Crisis: Rape and Sexual Assault statistics
World Bank Gender Data Portal: Violence against women and girls

Support Organisations

Women's Aid
The Fawcett Society - campaigning for equality for women and girls
Rape Crisis
Wellbeing of Women - funding gynaecological and reproductive health
Helping Survivors - US based charity supporting survivors of sexual violence
Refuge
Plan International UK