Better data, better world?

"This commitment would require challenging entrenched hierarchies of 'worthy subjects,' which often leaves the victimization of women and girls invisible and outside the boundaries of people who deserve protection. The paucity of data that captures the combined social identities of women and girls, specifically those considered on the margins, suggests their worthiness is invisible, and their lives – and deaths – are discounted. When collecting data, governments do not view the killings of women and girls as having importance outside the fact that they contribute to national homicide statistics. This is where the problem lies – the focus is on administrative data that are limited and largely inaccessible to those who could use it effectively, so the data are significantly underused."

~ Myrna Dawson

"Data is a defence against femicide"

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2021/data-is-a-defence-against-femicide/