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
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 below or download as PDF.
Gaps, Synergies and Needs: Organizational Support for Women and Girls in Miami-Dade County is 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