#ScaryStats - Uncovering Inequality One Statistic at a Time
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Families are increasingly depending on women’s wages to stay afloat, but women make up nearly 2/3 of minimum wage workers. #scarystats
— NWLC (@nwlc) October 30, 2015
Only 1 in 10 US school districts have bullying policies that incl protections 4 #LGBT youth #scarystats Learn more: https://t.co/uKTXz1GqXo
— GLSEN Research (@GLSENResearch) October 30, 2015
It kicked off last Friday, in concordance with Halloween, the idea being to show people something a little bit more frightening than someone far smaller than Tom Hardy trying to pull off a Bane outfit. It was started by a group of different women's rights groups - the Latino-centric COLOR, sexual health advocacy group Healthy and Free Tennessee, human rights group SisterSong and MomsRising, who focus on awareness and help to combat the issues faced by struggling mothers, whatever the source of the struggle might be. Also involved with the organisation of it were Steadfast Strategies, a non-profit consultancy firm.
If SCOTUS doesn't intervene, Texas could be left w/ as few as 10 abortion clinics to serve 5.4 million women of reproductive age #scarystats
— CenterforReproRights (@ReproRights) October 30, 2015
Most teens get sexual health info online, but 46% of contraceptive facts and 35% of facts on abortion online are inaccurate .#scarystats
— YTH (@YTHorg) October 30, 2015
As well as Halloween, the campaign was intended to coincide with World Statistics Day, and it was very cleverly thematically balanced between the former and the latter so as to maximise engagement and reach. It quickly spread out beyond women's rights issues as scores of posts emerged, scrolling through the feed reveals an unending stream of disturbing statistical imbalances, the vast majority of which I was almost completely unaware of.
A dramatic number (90%) of transgender people report experiencing harassment &discrimination in the workplace. #scarystats #translivesmatter
— SisterSong (@SisterSong_WOC) October 30, 2015
1 in 5 college women will experience sexual assault before graduation. #scarystats
— NWLC (@nwlc) October 30, 2015
Twitter is frequently repurposed as a conduit for calls to action, but it's often ineffective, as its by-the-minute ticker format means that people will often forget the impetus behind a particular tweet mere minutes afterwards. While this one might not break that chain of fad culture and disinterest, if it carries on at a steady pace, it might encourage people to focus more on statistical information, rather than hearsay, to make an important point. Written arguments are easy to massage, manipulate and take out of context but numbers don't lie. If this starts a trend in the way vital information is shared, it will do a great deal of good.
1/3 of female homicide victims in the US are killed by an intimate male partner. #domesticviolence #scarystats
— Stronger Generations (@StrongerGen) October 30, 2015
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#ScaryStats - Uncovering Inequality One Statistic at a Time
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