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CWIP's Clearsighted publication/guide
Provides a set of basic questions from which to begin
a gender-based assessment during proposal evaluation, site
visits, and follow up. Using a gender lens means examining
a particular issue with a focus on the real life conditions
of women & girls and acknowledging that gender is a powerful
predictor of experience and opportunity. It allows us to see
connections such as those between unemployment and lack of
child care, homelessness and rates of domestic violence, infant
mortality and lack of access to prenatal care
-- CWIP's Shortsighted publication
In 1992, Chicago Women In Philanthropy issued a report,
ShortSighted: How Chicago-Area Grantmakers Can Apply a Gender
Lens To See the Connections Between Social Problems and Women's
Needs
-- CWIP's Gender Lens publication
-- MAP report executive summary
(PDF)
how better to ‘map’ influential power networks and tap
into them — comfortably, colleague-to-col- league, with both
humor and expertise — offers an important opportunity to help
the philanthrop- ic community shift to the next stage of thinking
about effective funding for women and girls.” Thus, at this
21st anniversary juncture, we intro- duce the Member Advocate
Project (MAP)