Manage unemployment benefits and explore workforce and training resources around the state. For questions, contact the Department of Labor. Licensed child care is available. To find options near you, follow this guidance PDF. If you need help to afford child care, visit the Child Care Subsidy Program. To learn more and apply, visit MyMaineConnection. If you or your loved ones need assistance, please call , search for resources on maine.
All inquiries are free and confidential. Email business. Read the plan on its website. The Maine Department of Education, in collaboration with public health experts, created this framework for safely reopening Maine schools.
The Department of Education is compiling important advice and resources about talking with children about COVID, and coping with family stress and anxiety.
A message from Governor Janet Mills Time and again, Maine people have risen to the challenges put in front of us. Latest News Nov. Read the Mills Administration response here. Where to get vaccinated Vaccines are free and many vaccination sites in Maine no longer require an appointment.
Travel policy Maine no longer requires testing or quarantine for travelers to the state. Face coverings Maine is following U. Indoor and Outdoor Gatherings Maine has lifted capacity limits and physical distancing requirements for public indoor and outdoor gatherings. Full text [] Summary This paper assesses the factors that underpin sexual and gender-based violence SGBV in Sierra Leone and outlines some of the challenges facing community-based initiatives addressing gender equality and SGBV.
Key findings As in other conflict-affected settings, while evidence notes heightened incidences of SGBV post-war, discussions with activists suggest that the post-war context provided a uniquely fertile space in which to begin to deconstruct models of masculinity that perpetuated violence and were destructive for men as well as women.
The combination of national policy and civil society initiatives have contributed to a shift in the public discourse around gender equality and SGBV: at the national level there have been a number of government laws and policy reforms, such as the enactment of three Gender Acts and a Sexual Offences Act, and a network of SGBV-related initiatives involving international actors have emerged.
Respondents noted that experiences of violence in their own lives and the harmful nature of gender inequality for both men and women had motivated their decision to join a movement to change gender norms: men explained that they did not want the kind of responsibilities that were placed on them due to perceptions of masculinity, while women explained that they too would like to be able to take up opportunities for education and employment and expressed a strong desire to have their partners play a greater role in caring for their children and the home Spatial limits of the law: respondents in Freetown emphasised the struggles faced by those in rural areas, like Moyamba, while respondents in Moyamba explained that the those passing laws in Freetown were doing so without ensuring sufficient resources are focused on enforcement.
Culture, tradition and lack of access to information were also identified as reasons for spatial differences in accounts and approaches to gender inequality and violence. Recommendations However, to foster meaningful gender transformation needs long-term investment and support by international actors who recognise the structures underpinning inequality in post-conflict contexts.
Here she also argues that clear communications, tailored to different groups or local communities remains vital, but also dialogue to respect and hear concerns rather than only one-way passive and information-laden communications. Melinda Mills, not looking very disruptive in the Canadian mountains. Her farmer and teacher father went on to become a Canadian MP, her brother is a professor at a top US university and her sister is a leading designer.
And, despite her apparently inauspicious, academic beginning in the hallway, the young Melinda went on to study demography and sociology at the University of Alberta and then to take a PhD in Demography in the Netherlands, from where she came to Oxford in as a Statutory Professor at Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. She is baffled by some negative personal attacks, though. I like being very rational, systematic and non-emotional when I look at the evidence. I always loved Spock and the Vulcan character.
The evidence provided by social sciences has proved its worth in the pandemic, as has the benefits of working across the disciplines at Oxford. But it is different in social sciences, sometimes an RCT would not be an ethical or useful approach, says Professor Mills. But, she points out, the data and research we draw from is peer-reviewed, systematic and accurate — and often based on very large representative samples, so thinking about what counts as valid evidence also needs to change.
There is still some way to go, she says, despite the relative success of the vaccine programme in the UK, there is concern over the rise of new variants. Demography is emerging from the pandemic as a powerful discipline and the Leverhulme Centre as the go-to place for research. But national and international governments, organisations and businesses contact us now.
And our work has energised and attracted a lot of young researchers. We hear from people around the world A year and a half ago, there were eight people at the Leverhulme Centre, now there are around Later this month, Professor Mills will be taking part in the Brussels Economic Forum as one of eight advisors.
A lesson exposed by the pandemic has been the deep inequalities, accelerated shifts to the digital economy, offering us a chance to reboot our thinking and planning.
0コメント