GENDER EQUALITY Explorer is a user-friendly web tool that allows you to create your own tables, maps and reports to illustrate, analyze and understand the status of women and girls in your community.

It was created by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota’s Center on Women and Public Policy to expand the availability of data on women and girls and the capacity of individuals and organizations to use data to advance equality for women and girls across the country.

Engineered and powered by the award-winning Social Explorer, it disaggregates data by gender from the U.S. Census Bureau collected through the American Community Survey.

Download a pdf of the scrolling powerpoint presentation created for FREEDOM, HERE & NOW, a symposium about ending modern day slavery co-hosted by the University of Minnesota Center for Integrative Leadership and the Women's Foundation of Minnesota. The slide deck associated with this resource contains valuable background, national and local stats, and Minnesota resources. The complementary slide deck contained in the resource titled "Freedom Here & Now: What You Can Do" provides ideas for actions you, companies, and colleges can take to address this issue.

This report, conducted for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota by five Masters of Public Policy students at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, scans media presentation of sexually exploited girls in Minnesota; outlines current state policy; and funding streams available. It also reviews laws in other states and investigates a sample set of organizations providing services to girls who have been sexually exploited in Minnesota and across the country, identifying promising practices in this field. This report was presented on December 2011 by MPP Candidates: Julie Gardner, Erica Heikel, Kristen James, Michelle Karon, and Peter Strohmeier.