In Israel we have a lobbying group (of one person) who passes laws like “if you’re a hospital treating a rape victim, keep the evidence, don’t throw it away”.
I donate there, and their huge amount of leverage (salary for one person for 1 year = a few nation wide laws changed, which will effect lots of people for lots of time) make me think this might be an EA-level effective cause even though it’s a first world country.
Does she work alone because she doesn’t have enough funding? Or does she just think she’s effective enough as it is? I assume it’s the first one, but after lighting a torch in the official Independence Day ceremony, you’d assume she’d get some publicity...
The reality tends to be unsatisfying, like “I hate managing other people” or “I don’t know how to hire” or so—that’s my prior.
Perhaps if EA would offer to just hand her another $100k she’d find what to do with it, or at least want to talk to some consultant if she indeed has that kind of problem? I don’t know. Don’t want to bother her if I don’t have anything serious to offer
I think her impact is way above how much money she is getting and perhaps if anybody does retroactive public good’s funding—we could give her something (?)
I don’t believe the problem effects only one third of women and would I’d be happy to take bets on what we’ll discover in the future when we have better studies (as judged by you).
That is really interesting; I think policy advocacy to change laws that prevent or reduce VAWG is a promising avenue, so thank you for sharing your experience from Israel.
On your second point, yeah I would probably agree that it likely affects more women and girls; completely my intuition and from my personal experience as a doctor, but I would also be unsurprised if it was higher. More research would help with this!
In Israel we have a lobbying group (of one person) who passes laws like “if you’re a hospital treating a rape victim, keep the evidence, don’t throw it away”.
I donate there, and their huge amount of leverage (salary for one person for 1 year = a few nation wide laws changed, which will effect lots of people for lots of time) make me think this might be an EA-level effective cause even though it’s a first world country.
Website (Hebrew, but maybe chrome can translate).
Does she work alone because she doesn’t have enough funding? Or does she just think she’s effective enough as it is? I assume it’s the first one, but after lighting a torch in the official Independence Day ceremony, you’d assume she’d get some publicity...
I have no idea
The reality tends to be unsatisfying, like “I hate managing other people” or “I don’t know how to hire” or so—that’s my prior.
Perhaps if EA would offer to just hand her another $100k she’d find what to do with it, or at least want to talk to some consultant if she indeed has that kind of problem? I don’t know. Don’t want to bother her if I don’t have anything serious to offer
I think her impact is way above how much money she is getting and perhaps if anybody does retroactive public good’s funding—we could give her something (?)
Happy to help arrange this down the line.
P.S
I don’t believe the problem effects only one third of women and would I’d be happy to take bets on what we’ll discover in the future when we have better studies (as judged by you).
Hi Yonatan,
That is really interesting; I think policy advocacy to change laws that prevent or reduce VAWG is a promising avenue, so thank you for sharing your experience from Israel.
On your second point, yeah I would probably agree that it likely affects more women and girls; completely my intuition and from my personal experience as a doctor, but I would also be unsurprised if it was higher. More research would help with this!