{"id":315,"date":"2021-03-08T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clareslawexperiences.wordpress.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2021-03-08T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:59:12","slug":"international-womens-day-8th-march-2021-choose-to-challenge-and-call-out-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clareslawexperiencesproject.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day 8th March 2021 \u2013 \u2018Choose to Challenge\u2019 (and call out inequality)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>International Women\u2019s Day 2021 comes amid a global pandemic and, what the United Nations (UN) has termed, a \u2018Shadow Pandemic\u2019 of violence against women. The gendered consequences of COVID-19 have been felt in all aspects of women\u2019s lives and this has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. According to the UN, women have been hardest hit by the economic fall out of the pandemic and given the feminised nature of work and care they have also been disproportionately at risk of succumbing to the virus. Concerningly, marginalized and disabled women will bear the most significant physical and economic costs overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, there are concerns that the pandemic risks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/feb\/09\/uk-risks-turning-clock-back-on-gender-equality-in-pandemic\">\u2018turning the clock back on gender equality\u2019 <\/a>by 20 years. In addition to the widespread concerns surrounding increased gendered violence(s), there have been gendered consequences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/08\/half-of-women-in-uk-fear-equality-is-going-back-to-1970s-survey\">home schooling, furlough and inflexible employers,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/girls-doing-more-housework-in-covid-lockdown-than-boys\">girl\u2019s education due to domestic chores<\/a>, and an exacerbation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/-\/media\/headquarters\/attachments\/sections\/library\/publications\/2020\/gender-equality-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-en.pdf?la=en&amp;vs=5142\">precariousness of women\u2019s already precarious employment<\/a>. We know that it is these everyday economic and social hardships and lack of available choices that often keep women from leaving abusive relationship. Even with recent gains in women\u2019s participation rates in employment, these still vary considerably by ethnicity and disability. In the light of these known gendered, ethnic, classed and disablist disparities, the UN has stressed the need for gender sensitive responses to tackle inequality in the post-covid recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the UK, 2021 should mark the launch of the Domestic Abuse Act which will for the first time carry a legal definition of domestic abuse. Yet, the gendered nature of that abuse does not feature prominently by definition in this legislation nor in the practice it promotes. Moreover, its systematic exclusion of the most vulnerable women in our society \u2013 refugees fleeing violence from war torn and poor countries or those trapped in abusive relationships here in the UK by their insecure immigration status \u2013 risks destabilising the so-called \u2018landmark\u2019 legislation. Further still, despite the gendered and diverse consequences of the Shadow Pandemic and the tsunami of issues likely to come in its aftermath, this legislation carries no statutory requirement to fund vital specialist community and gender sensitive services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is unfortunate as, without such services, many women will lack the necessary support so vital to empower them to leave abusive relationships and live violence free and equitable lives. Without a gender sensitive response, the economic and social disparities between men and women are left unchallenged. Moreover, without an intersectional lens, we are not just gender blind but somewhat complicit in the unintended consequences of the criminalisation of domestic abuse which \u2018creates the very conditions that spur the violence that it seeks to remedy\u2019 (Goodmark, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodmark\u2019s recent work suggests that minoritized communities are more likely to feel disempowered by laws that seek to \u2018protect\u2019 them, if indeed, they reach them at all. In our research project on Clare\u2019s Law (the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme), we seek to explore and understand a diverse range of women\u2019s experiences of a \u2018law\u2019 that seeks to provide them with the knowledge about an abuser\u2019s criminal past. Knowledge that supports them in making informed decisions to keep themselves and their children safe. Yet, this knowledge tends to come with its own intersectional blindness and gendered stereotypes and expectations. As Charlotte Barlow pointed out in her previous <a href=\"https:\/\/clareslawexperiences.wordpress.com\/2020\/11\/30\/example-post-3\/\">post<\/a>, women are often divided into deserving and undeserving of support when the knowledge imparted upon them did not empower them to leave. In Nicole Renehan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/clareslawexperiences.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/23\/introducing-nicole-renehan-is-knowing-enough\/\">post<\/a> she showed that the knowledge to empower can similarly disempower women by reproducing the accusatory question \u2018why doesn\u2019t she just leave?\u2019. This condemns rather genuinely explores if they even want to leave, how they might do that or what they might need. Indeed, in Sandra Walkate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/clareslawexperiences.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/08\/sandra-walklate-on-clares-law-whats-in-a-name\/\">post<\/a>, we find that Clare\u2019s Law may even have been introduced with little thought at all given to how it might empower women, never mind for which women and when.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, on this International Women\u2019s Day, we <strong>Choose to Challenge<\/strong> whether laws meant to protect women can ever really empower them without listening to and understanding about the complexities of their lives and the gendered inequalities and multifaceted adversities they face worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women\u2019s Day 2021 comes amid a global pandemic and, what the United Nations (UN) has termed, a \u2018Shadow Pandemic\u2019 of violence against women. 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