Our Work
The Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity champions the rights of girls, gender-expansive youth, and women. Our goal is to uncover and eliminate gender and racial disparities across public systems: schools, courtrooms, hospitals, and other touch points in girls’ lives. We start by investigating the root causes of injustice through groundbreaking research and then work to develop innovative law, practice, and policy solutions. Our efforts are informed by girls and rooted in their lived experiences.
Approach
Over the past decade, we have worked to champion girls and women, fighting punitive treatment in schools; unjust criminalization; adultification bias against Black girls; and gender-based violence and the sexual abuse to prison pipeline for girls. We offer solutions, including restorative practices and other methods make public systems fairer to girls and women.
Publications
Our publications are drivers for change. Every report is rooted in research and focuses on implications for girls and women and the need for changes to policy and practice.
Initiatives
Our stand-alone projects dive more deeply into our areas of focus and feature special partnerships.
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