Event Details<\/span><\/h2>The first in a nationwide series of launches, this event marked the introduction of a data driven approach to advancing women\u2019s representation in policy and political leadership. The event included an analysis of the findings from five initial case studies around national level data from the United States,\u00a0Canada,\u00a0Sweden,\u00a0Germany, and the\u00a0United Kingdom.<\/p>
On May 3rd, a panel with WPSP Data Partners discussed the data landscape, noticeable gaps in the numbers, and opportunities to leverage this data to drive institutional change toward global gender parity. The speakers were\u00a0Gwen K. Young<\/strong>,\u00a0Director of\u00a0The Women in Public Service Project,\u00a0Mallory Barg Bulman<\/strong>,\u00a0Vice President of Research and Evaluation, Partnership for Public Service,\u00a0Ciara Lee<\/strong>,\u00a0International Consultant, Gender Equality in Public Administration, Governance and Peacebuilding Cluster, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),\u00a0Dr. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat<\/strong>,\u00a0President of Women in International Security (WIIS), and\u00a0Cynthia Terrell<\/strong>,\u00a0Founder and Director of Representation2020 and FairVote.<\/p>\u00a0<\/h2>Key Quotes<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\u00a0<\/h3>Gwen Young<\/h3> <\/p>
\u201cOne of our tools is to build out this data framework. We are aiming to have a global index where we are able to look at where women are in leadership positions vis-a-vis other indicators. To really give us a snapshot of where women are, where they exercise leadership and power, what the barriers are, and\u00a0to drive institutional change.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cWe are looking at data across the government. So not just how many presidents or how many parliamentarians, which is a lot of what we see in the most accessible data; but public administration –\u00a0where do they sit in national security, how many mayors, where do they sit in police forces, where do they sit in judicial forces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>
\u00a0<\/h3>Mallory Barg Bulman<\/h3> <\/p>
\u201cThis is an important effort when you look at gender parity and trying to reach that goal of 50\/50.\u00a0First of all if you don\u2019t know where you are, it\u2019s hard to know how more you have to go. Also, just the transparency of the data alone really helps drive the change, it starts the conversation and gets that into the discourse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>
\u00a0<\/h3>Ciara Lee<\/h3> <\/p>
\u201cFrom a UNDP perspective, we noticed, on a global scale, that public administration is often always left out of the discourse on women\u2019s leadership in government, and is often left out of the data and evidence.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cFor us, public administration is so important first and foremost because it is a normative issue, it\u2019s an issue of rights for women to be represented in the public administration. Second of all, the public administration is often the single largest employer in a country, so it\u2019s also a matter of women\u2019s economic empowerment, and the impact on the economy. Thirdly, we find that the influence or power of civil servants is often overlooked and the way that they can decide how policy gets implemented, what gets prioritized, and also as policymakers themselves. When we add up all these components of the public administration, we can see that having gender balance in the civil service will impact government but also the state society relationship as the implementers of policy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>
\u00a0<\/h3>Chantal de Jonge Oudraat<\/h3> <\/p>
\u201cIt is very important to have the numbers out there; the numbers allow us to hold political leaders accountable.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cImplementation remains really difficult. Having data to be able to show whether there is progress or not, is really important.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>
\u00a0<\/h3>Cynthia Terrell<\/h3> <\/p>
\u201cParity means racial representation, geographic representation and partisan representation.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cThe reason that data is important to me is that it should drive our strategies for change. If we really are data experts and we embrace the fact that data really should motivate our decisions, then we should invest in the things that are shown to elect more women. Those things include quotas, they include voting systems, they include internal legislative measures, is there onsite child care, how well are women paid once they are in government, and how are they selected via committee chair. The data shows that\u2019s what gets women elected. The data doesn\u2019t support just doing what we are doing alone anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>
As emphasized by the speakers, data is a powerful tool to achieve gender parity, especially in public administration. The new Women in Public Service Project data framework measures not just how many women are heads of government or in parliaments, but also women’s representation\u00a0at all levels of political and policy leadership from the national down to the local level, and across multiple sectors of public service. Working with data partners including Boardwalk Leadership, the Partnership for Public Service, Representation2020, and the United Nations Development Programme, WPSP will\u00a0deliver the world’s most comprehensive collection of sex-disaggregated data on women’s leadership.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Time and Place Wednesday, May 3, 2017 – 01:00 PM5th Floor, The Wilson Center\u00a0 Follow the conversation #NumbersMatter \u00a0 Event Details The first in a nationwide series of launches, this event marked the introduction of a data driven approach to advancing women\u2019s representation in policy and political leadership. The event included an analysis of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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