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Evaluating Women's Issues Charity
It seems that charitable causes that attempt to help women fall into one or more of the following categories:
1. Give resources to women because women are disadvantaged in general ("affirmative action"). For example, see this running/walking based fitness program for women, while they attempt to address a problem for women (isolation / depression / bad health), they don't argue that such a problem affects women more or that such resources are better applied to women as opposed to men. The downside is the usual battle over affirmative action: Is allocating resources in that manner fair or justifiable in utilitarian terms? That last question is particularly pointed when asked in the context of disaster relief.
2. Give resources to women because women are in a "unique position" to use those resources more efficiently. There are, however, both advantages and disadvantages to leveraging the strengths of women's position in a sexist society (e.g. closer connection to community/home because of lack of outside economic opportunities), you risk your solution being part of a lock-in that keeps the larger social/cultural system from changing.
3. Give resources to women to provide opportunities that women in particular lack for social reasons. A good, common example is providing education to women in areas where cultural or religious forces oppose women's education. The biggest risk of this approach is being unaware of the potential for backlash by the defenders of the status quo, including violence.
4. Give resources to support direct feminist political or cultural action. The biggest possible downside is missing opportunities to do immediate good within the existing system.
I'd suggest asking the following questions about women's issues causes:
1. Does it do more good than addressing the same problem from a gender-neutral standpoint?
2. Does it do good in both the short and long term?
3. Is it aware of and participating in larger cultural / political battles around the issues it addresses?
I encourage you to consider not just whether a particular cause supports women's issues, but how, and how effectively. Focus on the big stakes first: Education, economic opportunity, equality under the law.
1. Give resources to women because women are disadvantaged in general ("affirmative action"). For example, see this running/walking based fitness program for women, while they attempt to address a problem for women (isolation / depression / bad health), they don't argue that such a problem affects women more or that such resources are better applied to women as opposed to men. The downside is the usual battle over affirmative action: Is allocating resources in that manner fair or justifiable in utilitarian terms? That last question is particularly pointed when asked in the context of disaster relief.
2. Give resources to women because women are in a "unique position" to use those resources more efficiently. There are, however, both advantages and disadvantages to leveraging the strengths of women's position in a sexist society (e.g. closer connection to community/home because of lack of outside economic opportunities), you risk your solution being part of a lock-in that keeps the larger social/cultural system from changing.
3. Give resources to women to provide opportunities that women in particular lack for social reasons. A good, common example is providing education to women in areas where cultural or religious forces oppose women's education. The biggest risk of this approach is being unaware of the potential for backlash by the defenders of the status quo, including violence.
4. Give resources to support direct feminist political or cultural action. The biggest possible downside is missing opportunities to do immediate good within the existing system.
I'd suggest asking the following questions about women's issues causes:
1. Does it do more good than addressing the same problem from a gender-neutral standpoint?
2. Does it do good in both the short and long term?
3. Is it aware of and participating in larger cultural / political battles around the issues it addresses?
I encourage you to consider not just whether a particular cause supports women's issues, but how, and how effectively. Focus on the big stakes first: Education, economic opportunity, equality under the law.
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