Week 2 Monday 24/07/2017

Today in class, we got given a word or saying and we had to combine this with our chosen topic to create some ideas. My topic is gender inequality. I got given the words: Fireman, weasel, and roll out the red carpet. This exercise was very helpful to get the imagination working and discover how different subject matter can be used to portray the same ideas about gender inequality. These are the ideas I came up with.

For homework, I have done some more research about statistics that could be used in my posters. I am still undecided which path I want to go down so I have been researching all of them. 

Abortion:

• In New Zealand the law says it is legal to have an abortion if two certifying consultants (doctors) agree that continuing the pregnancy would result in serious danger to a woman’s mental or physical health. 
• Each year, an estimated 22 million women and girls have an unsafe abortion, almost all in the developing world. As a result, 47,000 lose their lives and millions more suffer serious injury. 
• 12,823 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2016.
• 57 percent of abortions were performed before the 10th week of the pregnancy in 2016.
• Most abortions (64 percent) were a woman's first abortion in 2016.
• Women aged 20–24 years had the highest abortion rate in 2016.

Sexual abuse:

• The 2006 Crime and Safety Survey found that approximately 29 percent of women and 9 percent of men experience unwanted and distressing sexual contact over their lifetime. Sexual offences were the fifth most common offence disclosed in the survey.
• indicate 99% of adult sexual violence is perpetrated by men. 
• 20% of girls and 9% of boys in New Zealand report unwanted sexual touching or being forced to do sexual things.

Domestic Violence:

• 76% of family violence incidents are NOT reported to Police. 
• an average of 12 women and 4 men a year were killed in the context of Intimate Partner Violence
• 1 in 3 women experience physical and/or sexual violence from a partner in their lifetime. 
• New Zealand has the worst rate of family and intimate-partner violence in the world. A shocking 80 per cent of incidents go unreported
•  On average 13 women and 10 men are killed each year as a result of family violence.
• Kids are present at two thirds of these incidents.
• On average, police attend a family violence incident every five and a half minutes - that's 279 calls each day
• 14% of young people report being hit or physically harmed on purpose by an adult at home in the last 12 months. 
• A child is admitted to a New Zealand hospital every second day with injuries arising from either assault, neglect or maltreatment
• Every year an average of 10 to 14 children were victims of homicide
• On average one child is killed every 5 weeks.
• Ninety percent of all child deaths are perpetrated by someone the child knew.

I have also started to think of some quotes and phrases that would be incorporated into my poster as a tagline. 

Domestic Violence 

Actions speak louder than words

How many second chances has he had?

Abuse is not love, it's about control

When did he stop treating you like a queen/princess/ royalty

Every rose has its thorns

Not all secrets are worth keeping

Don’t be blinded by love

Love should not hurt

Make him a one hit wonder

The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal

If he loves you why did he hurt you?

“It won't happen again,” he said last time

She's not your puppet

I'm, not a doll, stop playing with me

There's no place like home

Sexual abuse

It's not the clothes its the mind set

Abortion
If you can't trust me with a choice how can you trust me with a child

Analysis of Precedents: