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MISSING: Information About Women’s Lives
Executive Summary
MISSING concentrates on four key areas that affect women and girls where priorities have changed, funding has been cut, research findings distorted, important social differences masked, and critical committees and programs dismantled. The report makes clear the following has gone MISSING:
ß Accurate and Science-Based Information on Women’s Health
ß Accurate and Reliable Information on Women’s Economic Status
ß Scientific Objectivity and Expertise
ß Information to Help Protect and Advance Women and Girls
MISSING:
Accurate and Science-Based Information on Women’s Health Information routinely posted on government websites, such as critical health data for women, is withdrawn or altered without explanation.
OVERVIEW
With weekly headlines about suppressed information, slanted scientific panels, and altered research reports, the National Council for Research on Women joins a growing chorus of researchers, scientific experts, policymakers, and journalists in a call to concerned citizens to protest and reverse decisions that diminish the amount and quality of information available to us all. These decisions, we believe, cannot be left unchecked. MISSING concentrates on missing information - information that directly affects women’s lives. Vital data has been deleted, buried, altered, or has otherwise gone missing from government websites and publications. Taken cumulatively, these actions are serious for women and need to be addressed. As the report shows, such distortions and omissions have debilitating consequences for peoples’ health and livelihoods. They also deny researchers critical facts and impede our ability to craft solutions and develop strategies to address the pressing challenges of our times. Americans share a proud legacy of trusting the federal government to assemble information needed to advance women’s rights and well-being. As data on women disappears, an important, non-partisan tradition of government is being destroyed.
MISSING: Information About Women’s Lives
Executive Summary
MISSING concentrates on four key areas that affect women and girls where priorities have changed, funding has been cut, research findings distorted, important social differences masked, and critical committees and programs dismantled. The report makes clear the following has gone MISSING:
ß Accurate and Science-Based Information on Women’s Health
ß Accurate and Reliable Information on Women’s Economic Status
ß Scientific Objectivity and Expertise
ß Information to Help Protect and Advance Women and Girls
MISSING:
Accurate and Science-Based Information on Women’s Health Information routinely posted on government websites, such as critical health data for women, is withdrawn or altered without explanation.
OVERVIEW
With weekly headlines about suppressed information, slanted scientific panels, and altered research reports, the National Council for Research on Women joins a growing chorus of researchers, scientific experts, policymakers, and journalists in a call to concerned citizens to protest and reverse decisions that diminish the amount and quality of information available to us all. These decisions, we believe, cannot be left unchecked. MISSING concentrates on missing information - information that directly affects women’s lives. Vital data has been deleted, buried, altered, or has otherwise gone missing from government websites and publications. Taken cumulatively, these actions are serious for women and need to be addressed. As the report shows, such distortions and omissions have debilitating consequences for peoples’ health and livelihoods. They also deny researchers critical facts and impede our ability to craft solutions and develop strategies to address the pressing challenges of our times. Americans share a proud legacy of trusting the federal government to assemble information needed to advance women’s rights and well-being. As data on women disappears, an important, non-partisan tradition of government is being destroyed.