{"id":1229,"date":"2006-10-10T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:05:11","slug":"sexism-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/10\/10\/sexism-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexism in the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/slideshows\/durableSlideshows\/suburbanSprawl\/slide4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is an interesting article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/2917\">Women&#8217;s Enews<\/a> about how urban design affects resources available to battered women. Phoenix, like many cities, is experiencing sprawl, and this is reducing the ability of abused women to access adequate resources &#8212; shelters just aren&#8217;t being built fast enough in outlying areas. (In related sprawl sexism, the Surface Transportation Archives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transact.org\/report.asp?id=184\">report that women pay the highest price for sprawl in terms of commutes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> North of the border, StatsCan reported last week that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.ca\/english\/research\/85-570-XIE\/2006001\/findings\/responses.htm\">violence against women is down in Canada<\/a>, though there has been an increase of abuse by boyfriends and ex-boyfriends, as well as an increase in criminal stalking of women. Sadly, Nunavut, which experiences the highest rates of domestic homicides, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cp.org\/premium\/ONLINE\/member\/National\/061006\/n1006135A.html\">is losing one of its shelters<\/a> due to lack of funding. In the rest of Canada, the situation may also change for the worse &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20060926\/status_women_060926\/20060926?hub=Qperiod\">the feds just cut millions to the Status of Women Canada<\/a>, and the Ontario Women&#8217;s Justice Coalition, a vital Toronto resource for victims of domestic abuse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owjn.org\/\">doesn&#8217;t even have enough funding to respond to emails<\/a>. Further, the feds say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fafia-afai.org\/en\/node\/367\">any funding they provide can no longer be used for advocacy or lobbying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; happy National Domestic Violence Awareness Month everybody! Some grassroots light at the end of the dismal fed funding tunnel appears courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/hollabackcanada.blogspot.com\/\">HollabackCanad<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hollabackcanada.blogspot.com\/\">a<\/a>, a Canuck offshoot of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollabacknyc.blogspot.com\/\">NYC photoblog<\/a> that lets everyone post on their least-favourite street harrassers. Also, a new Indian activist project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com\/\">Blank Noise<\/a> takes a Critical Mass-style approach of night parades to promote a lady&#8217;s right to walk city streets without being catcalled.<br \/>\n<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting article on Women&#8217;s Enews about how urban design affects resources available to battered women. Phoenix, like many cities, is experiencing sprawl, and this is reducing the ability of abused women to access adequate resources &#8212; shelters just aren&#8217;t being built fast enough in outlying areas. 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