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Nov 21, 2024
The authors apply the Women, Peace, and Security framework to a fictional scenario of a Category 5 hurricane disaster response along the U.S.-Mexico border to demonstrate how disasters are experienced inequitably by different demographic groups.
Expert Insights
Jun 17, 2024
This paper provides public comment on two National Institute of Standards and Technology draft publications on digital content transparency and global artificial intelligence standards, addressing the notable demographic disparity in the drafts.
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Jun 4, 2024
RAND's Women, Peace, and Security Initiative hosted a May 2024 event to examine the critical role that gendered perspectives play in helping U.S. and allied government policymakers address the most pressing national security challenges.
Jan 18, 2024
The authors identified gaps, ambiguities, inconsistencies, and reported problems in the military racial grievance system and offer recommendations for improvement and further evaluation.
The recently released spending bill would prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs from beginning to offer gender confirmation surgery. It would also prevent providers from offering hormone therapy for gender-affirming care. These provisions do not align with the state of the science and medical consensus and would harm vulnerable veterans.
Jan 6, 2023
This issue explores the inadequacies of the current system of space governance; China's presence in the Arctic; abortion in the U.S. post-Dobbs; and the security and technology challenges related to Taiwan's domination of the microchip industry.
Research Summary
Oct 20, 2022
This research brief highlights top-line findings from four different projects that have implications for strategies to prevent sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. Army.
Press
Aug 24, 2022
The risk of FEMA employees experiencing harassment or discrimination in 2021 was significantly less than in 2019, but one in five employees still experienced at least one civil rights violation during the preceding year.
This report describes gender-based/sexual and race/ethnicity–based harassment and discrimination at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. About one in five employees experienced at least one civil rights violation in the year preceding the survey.
For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.
This report examines how experiences of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and sexual assault among military service members relate to general health and symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Mar 10, 2022
The toxicity of the anti-feminist discourse in South Korea does not accurately reflect the gender-related tensions and problems that most Koreans currently face. The obstacles to improving gender equity are more mundane and more ubiquitous than the hyperbole of anti-feminism suggests.
