The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade (WFMD) is committed to addressing the most pressing issues affecting women and girls in Miami.
This includes working to correct gender inequality in pay, leadership positions, education, and healthcare. Now, with WFMD’s research initiative, it also includes correcting inequity in data.
Simply put, there isn’t enough data collected on the status of women and girls in our community. And when data doesn’t have a gender lens, it makes women and girls invisible. In fact, gender data inequality is such a significant problem that the United Nations has flagged it as a major hurdle to achieving gender equality throughout the world.
Gender Equity Dashboard
The Gender Equity Dashboard highlights select metrics that describe conditions for women and girls in Miami-Dade County across our four key focus areas. This dashboard – part of an ongoing research initiative — helps the private, public, and philanthropic sectors collaborate together on solutions and investment. It will also inform our grant-making initiatives.
Reports
A Powerful Business Case for Early Learning & Childcare
An impactful new report from The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade. In Florida, 68% of children live in families where all parents work, and 23 million Floridians rely on childcare services to get to work. Access to affordable, high-quality early learning is a cornerstone of workforce stability, economic mobility, and child development. Reliable care enables parents to remain in the workforce, pursue career advancement, and support their families, while also ensuring that children thrive during the critical birth-to-five years, when brain development is most rapid. Yet in Florida—and particularly in Miami-Dade—families face severe challenges. Miami-Dade County alone accounts for $931 million in annual economic losses due to insufficient childcare for working parents. The report reveals that addressing childcare accessibility and affordability is not just a workforce concern; it’s an economic imperative and a compelling business case for the future of Miami-Dade. Discover the full analysis in the report.
A groundbreaking new report from The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade, The Invisible Victims: A Gendered Focus on Gun Violence in Miami-Dade County, uncovers the alarming and underreported impact of gun violence on women and underserved communities in South Florida. Unlike national reports that provide broad trends, this report reveals how gun violence plays out in Miami-Dade County specifically, highlighting critical gaps in data, disparities in victimization, and shortcomings in public policy. You can find the full report here: womensfundmiami.org/gunsafe. The report was made possible in part through a Supporting Safer Communities Program grant from The Carrie Meek Foundation, funded by Miami-Dade County’s Community Violence Intervention Initiative.
THE WOMEN’S FUND MIAMI-DADE LANDSCAPE OF SERVICES RESEARCH REPORT 2023
The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade is pleased to release:
The State of Women and Girls-Serving Organizations: Services, Capacity, and Challenges a Landscape of Services Research Report 2023
This report was developed by The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade.
The State of Women and Girls-Serving Organizations: Services, Capacity, and Challenges is an expanded follow-up report that provides an in-depth look at the infrastructure, capacities, functions, challenges, and funding sources of 68 community-based organizations serving women and girls in Miami-Dade County, including a section on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. When properly equipped, these organizations facilitate solutions and mobilize the community to reduce gender inequalities and inequities. However, historically, community-based organizations serving women and girls have been underfunded, under-resourced, and underrepresented, making them invisible. The findings in the report provide knowledge on what is needed to sustain and strengthen the work of women and girls-serving organizations.
You may read the report here or download as PDF.
Gaps, Synergies and Needs: Organizational Support for Women and Girls in Miami-Dade County
The first-ever document that captures every community organization serving women and girls by category. This means organizations working on the same issues are now aware of each other and can collaborate to make resources stretch further. It also means that gaps in support can be clearly seen and addressed. Overall, it allows the support ecosystem to be better understood and a more effective support network to be established for women and girls.
Resources
The documents below link to resources for Women and Girls in Miami-Dade.
Arathi Ramappa, Vice-Chair of The Women’s Fund, on the importance of data.
The Women’s Fund Miami-Dade
Research and Dashboard Simpleshow