That’s much more complicated, right? It’s more complicated to sell to your donors, to your board.”Īt the Generation Equality Forum in June, more than $40bn (£30bn) was pledged to support efforts to tackle gender inequality. “Maybe there’s a woman who has been subjected to domestic violence and one day she just snaps and she kills her husband in self-defence or as a reaction. Related: Activists call for revolution in ‘dated and colonial’ aid funding
Mahtani, a Zambian-British lawyer, said: “These are some of the most marginalised women and, really, we shouldn’t be looking at numbers we should be looking at who are the women who most need support and help and actually that’s a core tenet of feminist funding principles: fund those who are most gendered oppression.”Īsked why donors, including those focused on women’s rights, were shying away from such organisations, Mahtani said: “I think it’s overlooked because we like to support women if they fit into the stereotype of what is ‘marketable’,” suggesting that groups were often working with women who did not fit into a neat profile of victimhood. Though there is a lack of precise data, Penal Reform International put the global female prison population at about 740,000 – not quite 7% of the global total. They base their argument on the number of women versus the number of men.” The question of crime is never an interest to most donors or corporate and many would choose not to associate themselves with prisons.”Ī third said: “In the broader women’s rights movement it is very difficult to embrace work in prisons and funders exclude such initiatives. Another added: “There is generally a negative perception about women in prison or prisoners that make it hard for society to support.
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