batyr Chair, Ellen Derrick described the incoming CEO as a “powerful voice” who is “deeply passionate about amplifying young voices and their lived experience, alongside equipping young people and their communities with the tools to live their lives and flourish.”

“Acheson’s leadership is centred around driving transformative change, with lived experience at the core of this,” Derrick said in a statement. 

As a prominent figure in the Australian youth sector, Acheson has served as the CEO of Youth Action, Chair of the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition and Executive Manager of Policy and Advocacy at Arafmi. She was the lead youth lived experience consultant for the United Nations World Youth Report in 2022, and earned the title of Financial Review’s Woman of Influence in 2019. Last year, she was a Bob and June Prickett Churchill Trust Fellow, researching the ways involving young people in decision-making can help address rising mental ill-health. 

She is also the Co-founder of Numbers and People Synergy, a data analytics company working to improve social development policies. 

Acheson said she is “beyond excited to join the batyr team.” 

“I have been championing batyr from the sidelines for many years and it’s an absolute honour to now be stepping into the role as CEO to lead this incredible organisation,” she said in a statement.

“Their expertise in prevention and championing lived experience is being recognised and acknowledged in Australia and abroad for its proven impact.”

“I’m already proud of batyr’s work on the ground to date, and can’t wait to amplify this further. I’ll continue to ensure the team are supported, motivated and inspired to keep driving positive change for young people now and for generations to come.”

Derrick added that Acheson’s “depth of knowledge and experience across youth and mental health” is “inspiring.”

“We are excited to officially welcome Katie into the batyr family and see her leadership build on our strong foundations and guide batyr into the future.”

Acheson begins her role on February 19. Last week, the organisation launched its fifth Splash the Stigma swim fundraiser that will continue through the month of February. Splash the Stigma is batyr’s annual drive to “turn the tide on mental health”, where people are invited to take up swimming challenge to raise money for the charity’s education programs to help young people better understand their mental health.

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But since receiving a small loan from CARE UK’s Lendwithcare program, Ning has grown her small sewing business– something that has not only helped her earn money to care for her family, but also created jobs for members in her community.

It’s made a significant difference, not just for Ning, but for those around her. The Lendwithcare loan wasn’t a “hand out” – it was a “hand up”.

Ning is one of many women that could make a difference in their communities. However, in low-income and middle-income countries, there is a $1.7 trillion financing gap for female entrepreneurs.

The Lendwithcare program is set to change that. Originally launched by CARE UK, the program will be launched this week by CARE Australia, enabling supporters to make small loans to new and aspiring small business owners. A loan for as little as $25 can help grow their business, and once it is up and running, the loan is repaid to the lender.

Lendwithcare Australia will primarily focus on low-to-middle income countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Vietnam and the Philippines, where many women struggle to secure financing for small ventures. 

CARE has been operating for over 75 years, working to save lives, end poverty and achieve social justice. The organisation places a particular focus on women and girls, with the Lendwithcare Australia platform being a crucial way of reaching them. 

Peter Walton, the CEO of CARE Australia, says the program is a sustainable way to create positive change in the region and can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. Walton says for every woman who lifts herself out of poverty, she brings four people with her.

“It is a platform rallying Australians to make a direct impact on the lives of people who often don’t have access to the hand up that they need to support their families,” he says.

“Lendwithcare Australia creates a virtuous cycle of empowerment and opportunity. Borrowers gain the means to support themselves and empower their communities. 

“Lenders, in turn, experience the satisfaction of seeing their initial loan not only transform one life, but also continuously multiply its impact when re-lent to more and more deserving individuals.”

Lendwithcare Australia goes beyond the traditional process where people donate money and may not initially see its true impact. 

With Lendwithcare Australia, lenders can decide who they loan to and how much money they invest into their business. CARE Australia lends 100 per cent of the money provided by the lender to the borrowers and does not take any portion of the loan for profit.

The small loan helps the individual start up or grow their business; and from there, they can earn a living, provide for their families and, most importantly, employ members of their community.

Once the business grows, the business owner repays the loan to the donor, who can then choose to re-lend their money to support another business, withdraw it, or donate it to CARE Australia.

Suzi Chinnery, the head of capability and impact at CARE Australia, says Lendwithcare Australia is a “thoughtful approach to support”. Focusing on female business owners is a key part of the Lendwithcare strategy to alleviate financial inequity and achieve social justice, Chinnery said.

“When a woman has access to financial services, her opportunities improve dramatically – gaining independence, the freedom to pursue education, the opportunity to start a business, for great decision-making power in her home and to be a leader,” she says.

With the launch of the platform on October 30, Lendwithcare Australia is leading the way in sustainable charitable support, knowing well that it’s women who can make the biggest differences in our world today.

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But organisations in Australia passionate about driving change for women are working tirelessly to change this. 

On Friday September 15, Australian philanthropic charity 100 Women announced five new organisations to receive grants of up to $50,000 to support their causes – from women’s health and safety to empowering women through work, education and housing.

These grants were made possible by the support of Ostelin, the number one Vitamin D and Bone Health brand in Australia, and their initiative Project Strong. Ostelin’s project celebrates and empowers the strength of all women from the inside out.

Since 100 Women was founded in 2014, they have funded 34 major projects, raised $1.25 million collectively and changed the lives of 34,600 women and girls. Every single dollar donated to the charity funds the grants they award every year.

This year, Radiance South West Network and The Water Well Project were awarded a grant from 100 Women to fund their projects dedicated to women’s mental and physical health.

Radiance South West Network

Radiance South West began in 2017 with a simple fundraiser, held by a local mum in the south west of WA, who had suffered from severe psychosis in postpartum.

The mum donated the money she raised to a mental health organisation and asked them to set up a network that would support other mums with perinatal mental health issues. 

This is how Radiance South West Network was born. Since then, the charity has run free support groups for new mums to build resilience, enhance their emotional wellbeing and strengthen family relationships in the first three years after giving birth.

“Our main goal is to make sure that mum is safe, baby is safe and that they’re bonding,” Josephine Stewart from Radiance South West Network said.

“Within the first 12 months, a baby’s brain pretty much doubles in size, and all those neurological pathways that are built in those first 12 months rely heavily on healthy bonding with a carer.”

But perinatal mental health issues can hinder that crucial bonding, and these mental health issues are a lot more common than they should be. 

Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australian (PANDA) estimates up to one in five women experience anxiety, depression or both during the pregnancy and up to three years after the birth.

And it can bring parents to the darkest, most desperate places. Between 2011 and 2020, 10 per cent of all maternal deaths in Australia were suicide, according to Australian government statistics.

While the peer-run community groups at Radiance Network get mums out of the house and talking to others experiencing similar situations, Stewart said around 25 per cent of the mums referred to the Network don’t show up to the sessions.

“This can be because they might not have the money to buy petrol that week, or there might be cases of domestic violence where there’s fear around leaving the house,” Stewart said.

But the grant from 100 Women will change this. Under the grant, Radiance Network will launch a new project called Perinatal Wellbeing Peer Support Advocacy. 

Through this 18-month early intervention program, the charity will send volunteers and workers to the homes of these mothers in Collie, Bunbury, Busselton and the Margaret River region in WA. The volunteers can check-in and help them, without the mums having to leave the house.

Radiance Network estimates the new project will benefit 80 women and their children and will indirectly touch the lives of more than 160 friends and family members.

“It will allow us to visit those mums at home and make sure they don’t fall through the gap,” Stewart said.

“There, we can start with the very basics – making sure that mum and baby are fed and clean and safe physically, and then we can build on that and make sure that she is emotionally coping.

“This will build up her resilience and confidence to come and join the group sessions, which would be a major success.

“It’s not a luxury addition to what we do. It’s a core need that goes unmet at the moment.”

The Water Well Project

Dr Linny Phuong’s Vietnamese parents took refuge in Australia as part of the United Nations Humanitarian Entry Program in the 1970s, having been sent to a Malaysian refugee camp prior. From a young age, she saw the barriers her parents faced in the country’s healthcare system, including language barriers, different cultural beliefs of health and disease and more.

Now, as an award-winning medical professional, qualified physician and pharmacist and the founder of the Water Well Project, she aims to improve the health of communities from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds in Australia.

“We’ve got an amazing healthcare system in Australia, but it is very complex,” Dr Phuong said.

The Water Well Project is a charity that aims to clear up these complexities for migrant, refugee and asylum seeker communities in Australia. Multiple times a week, the charity sends healthcare professionals into community groups to teach practical skills to these vulnerable members of society.

“It’s really about empowering them with knowledge about everyday topics around health,” Dr Phuong explained.

From teaching people how to call an ambulance, how to read a nutrition label on food packages, to identifying breast cancer lumps, Dr Phuong and her team at the Water Well Project are all about bridging gaps of knowledge through hands-on, practical lessons.

“People remember things like that – it’s more about how you make people feel,” she said.

And with the latest grant from 100 Women, the Water Well Project can run a new female-focused project to improve refugee and asylum seeker women and girls’ health literacy.

“I’m such a strong believer in knowledge and education,” Dr Phuong said.

“We know when we teach women skills and knowledge, it has a more profound impact long-term on outcomes for their families, networks and communities”. 

The grant from 100 Women will facilitate 50 free health education sessions for women and girls from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker communities in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia.

The Water Well Project estimates the project will positively impact more than 700 women and girls.

“By improving the knowledge of women and empowering them, they can be better leaders and better advocates within their community,” Dr Phuong said.

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Despite the gravity of the statistics, a life-altering program would soon turn these attitudes around and help the girls to develop critical confidence and autonomy.

Jessica Brown’s Young Warrior Woman Program includes core components designed to build resilience. The girls participating are matched up with a mentor, participate in weekly training sessions for financial literacy and learn broadly how to take control of their lives.

By the end of six months, the number of girls who felt they were worthy of love and respect doubled, three quarters of the group could now recognise when they were being financially abused and 100 per cent of the group now had a safe adult to trust.

Brown founded the Warrior Woman Foundation (WWF) in 2020 with the vision to do exactly what the 2021 Young Warrior Woman program achieved: advancing women and achieving equality for all.

“It’s been a passion of mine. It’s kind of been my life’s journey,” she tells Women’s Agenda.

“I have always focused on supporting young women to be able to make positive choices for a better future.”

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Fulfilling this passion received a significant boost in May this year, when WWF received a grant of more than half a million dollars from the Coca-Cola Australia Foundation to support running the Young Warrior Woman program. The funding will enable them to fund 120 more young women through the program over the next three years in the Sydney and Newcastle area.

“We are very grateful that they were able to see our mission, vision and purpose and what we have achieved in such a short amount of time. We’re trying to break long term intergenerational negative social issues in an innovative way,” Brown says.

“I think sometimes we just have to think outside the box to do things differently than what we’ve done in the past.”

Women’s Agenda spoke to Brown in the lead up to her joining The Coca-Cola Company’s ‘Level the Playing Field’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit in Sydney on Friday August 18. As part of the momentum surrounding the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Summit is a forum for global and local business leaders to convene to spotlight women and underrepresented groups in an effort to power progress towards a level playing, on and off the football pitch. Coca-Cola has been a supporter of the FIFA Women’s World Cup since its inception in 1991. 

Brown joins other keynote speakers in the summit, including Malala Yousafzai, Dylan Alcott, Saudi woman’s rights activist Manal Al-Sharif and many more.

A call from the universe

Jessica Brown was a high school teacher in southwest Sydney before commencing a leadership career in the charity sector 20 years ago. 

Teaching, she says, inspired her to start her charity career. 

“I saw so many young boys and girls falling through the cracks and not flourishing in the classroom,” she says. 

“I thought, where do I start with helping break the cycle of abuse and neglect?”

Brown started with “the mothers of the next generation” – young women and girls aged 17-25. She founded her first charity, SISTER2sister, in 2003, which matched teenage girls with a mentor and gave them a strong female role model in their lives.

“Young people are deemed to be able to look after themselves at that particular age in life,” she said.

“But if they’ve been through abuse and neglect… they’re not equipped with the skills that an 18-year-old would have living in a supportive environment with family support.”

Brown ran SISTER2sister for 17 years before deciding to change course in 2020 establishing the Warrior Woman Foundation, as the COVID-19 pandemic created a devastating impact on key sectors employing young women, like hospitality and the care sector. 

“Everyone was hit by COVID. Everyone was affected by COVID,” she says. 

“But young women were particularly impacted because so many of them are in the hospitality industry and the caring industries. Unemployment became rife for women.

“The universe got me to start this charity in the middle of COVID for a reason.”

Small organisation, big dreams

Targeting young women, especially those coming out of the foster care system, the WWF’s Young Warrior Woman program is an evidence-based approach to connecting this marginalised group to a community, providing mental health support, most importantly, teaching them life skills – lessons Brown wished she knew when she left home at 18 years of age.

Every week, for the duration of the six-month program, the mentors check-in with their mentees to see how they are getting on.

As Brown explains, some of the participants have just finished their high school exams and have gotten their first part time job, but they’re thinking about what they’re going to do next. Others are at university. Some have jobs. And others again are still trying to work it all out. 

“So that’s why the mentors are there, to be able to support them at their particular part of their journey,” she says. 

The main focus of the foundation’s program targeting underrepresented women is financial literacy. “Teaching women who come from a wide range of backgrounds – from migrants, to international students, to First Nations women, to girls coming out of the foster care system – helps them take charge of their own lives,” she says. 

The financial literacy training includes teaching them to budget, save money, file their tax return and understand their superannuation.

Financial literacy is key 

Australia is ranked in the top ten countries with the highest levels of financial literacy, but the real issue lies in the gap between women and men, Brown says.

The University of Western Australia (UWA) collated data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey from 2020, which found while 63 per cent of men are financially literate, only 48 per cent have a basic understanding of financial literacy concepts.

“But women, for example, who are migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds have a financial literacy rate of 40.5 per cent,” Brown says.

“That’s why we work with underrepresented women because, at the end of the day, they’re all the mothers of the next generation.

“We just need to give them equal education opportunities.”

Brown lives for “the penny-drop moment” that these women have during the program – the moment they realise they can do things, like sorting their finances, for themselves.

“(Before the program) they don’t have the capacity, or the belief in themselves,” she says.

“That makes me so sad.”

But the community at the WWF, the “group of cheerleaders” as Brown says, help build back that confidence and support that has been missing in the lives of these young women for too long.

“We want to start a movement, a movement of supportive women helping other women within the community,” she says.

“We’re a small organisation, but we’ve got massive dreams.”

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Levelling the playing field

Brown will sit on a panel during the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit, held in Sydney on Friday August 18. 

With three pillars – education, opportunity and systemic change – the summit takes place as women continue to break down the barriers in women’s sport. Australia and New Zealand have hosted the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, with the Final set to take place on Sunday August 20.

The Australian Matildas have excelled further than ever before in a World Cup, and Australian fans have broken viewer records. The quarter-final match against France, where they won in the longest-ever World Cup penalty shoot-out, became the most-watched national sporting event in 18 years. 

Football is leading the way in levelling the playing field for women, but the summit aims to focus on fields other than the playing pitch, including workplaces.

The summit’s goal is to move away from reactive approaches that focus solely on supporting underrepresented people, a system that perpetuates inequality in businesses, society, politics and other sectors. As the program states: “It’s not about changing the player; it’s about changing the field they are playing on.” 

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In times of crisis, women donated more money and gave more frequently than men with respect to worthy causes.

The study collected data from January 2019 to April 2022, revealing 183,940 women donated a total of $91.37 million. By comparison, 129,539 men donated a total of $88.96 million.

The data also showed that residents in low-income areas gave more than middle-income areas, with their generosity matching wealthier Australians as a percentage of their area’s median income.

People in low-income and high-income areas donated 0.13 per cent of their area’s median incomes, while those in middle-income areas gave only 0.11 per cent of their area’s median incomes.

In the first four months of this year, women and residents in low-income areas donated a total estimate of $21 million.

Per capita, the most generous state or territory, with donations amounting to $25.12 per person was the ACT, while the lowest, at $7.07 per person, was the Northern Territory. 

Australian Red Cross state and territory operations director Poppy Brown said the figures represent what the organisation has seen throughout 2020 and 2021. 

“Despite women and people on lower incomes being (disproportionately) affected by the pandemic, the rising cost of living, and slow wage growth, this trend is only growing,” Brown told 7News.

“Every single dollar from every single donor helps make a real difference, whether it’s children donating their pocket money, people giving $5 or $10 when they can … which is why we’re asking people to make a tax-deductible donation as the financial year ends.”

Last week, the Australian Red Cross issued an urgent request for blood donations as Covid and flu season continues to impact blood supply.

The service said it needs at least 17,500 donations, with an emphasis on the need for type A, O and B blood types.

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Executive Director Cath Stone encouraged people to give blood, since many planned donations will be cancelled for various reasons. 

“We know people are sick with cold and flu,” she told My GC. “We know people’s children are unwell and keeping donors at home. And we know many people are still having to isolate due to COVID. We also know that these circumstances are causing large numbers of appointment cancellations and no-shows.” 

Stone added that those who are not sure of their blood type can find out my donating. 

“There are patients in hospital right now who are relying on blood for cancer treatment, surgery, accidents and complicated births,” she said.

Australian Red Cross reported 15,000 appointments booked in the past week but expected at least half of them were cancelled.

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The singer contributed $1 million in donation to the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville which has helped support the development of the vaccine. A spokesperson from Vanderbilt said Parton’s “generous” gift was helping “several promising research initiatives”.

Announcing her donation on Instagram in April, Parton remarked: “My longtime friend Dr Naji Abumrad, who’s been involved in research at Vanderbilt for many years, informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards that research of the coronavirus for a cure. I am making a donation of $1 million to Vanderbilt towards that research and to encourage people that can afford it to make donations.”

That month, The Guardian reported that the 74-year old’s $1 million also went into a number of research papers, including a convalescent plasma study, that treated coronavirus sufferers with the plasma of people carrying antibodies against COVID-19.

The Dolly Parton Covid-19 Research Fund was listed as one the funders in an initial report into Moderna’s vaccine which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month. According to early data, Moderna’s vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective and highly effective in stopping people getting ill and worked across all age groups.

Researchers announced that a separate preliminary trial last week declared the vaccine to be 90 percent effective at treating the virus which has so far claimed more than 249,000 lives in the US and 1.3 million people globally.

Parton told NBC’s Today show, “I’m just happy that anything I do can help somebody else,” she said. “Let’s just hope we find a cure real soon.”

Parton has publicly declared she is “very honoured and proud” to contribute to research into one of the leading Covid-19 vaccines across the world. Overnight, she spoke on BBC One’s The One Show, saying she was “so excited” to hear the news and that she was “sure many millions of dollars from many people went into that.”

“I just felt so proud to have been part of that little seed money that will hopefully grow into something great and help to heal this world. I’m a very proud girl today to know I had anything at all to do with something that’s going to help us through this crazy pandemic.”

Appearing on NBC’s Today Show, the star added: “What better time right now, we need this. I felt like this was the time for me to open my heart and my hand, and try to help.”

Cambridge, Massachusetts based firm Moderna, along with Pfizer, are the only two US-companies which have reported promising vaccine results, anticipating authorisation for emergency use as early as December this year. 

Moderna’s vaccine, which began trials back in March, can be stored at normal fridge temperatures that ought to ease distribution logistics. Moderna’s President Stephen Hoge said in a telephone interview with SBS “We are going to have a vaccine that can stop COVID-19.”

Hoge told The Associated Press earlier this week, “That should give us all hope that actually a vaccine is going to be able to stop this pandemic and hopefully get us back to our lives. It won’t be Moderna alone that solves this problem. It’s going to require many vaccines” to meet the global demand. 

Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokesperson John Howser said Parton’s donation is supporting a plasma study and research involving antibody therapies.

“Her gift provided support for a pilot convalescent plasma study that one of our researchers was able to successfully complete,” Howser told BBC News.

“Funds from Dolly’s gift are also supporting very promising research into monoclonal antibodies that act as a temporary vaccine for Covid. Two of these antibodies are now being tested by a global pharmaceutical firm.”

Parton has a long history of philanthropy and charity. Her Dollywood Foundation, which she began in 1986, has supported numerous child literary initiatives. She has also given to and raised money for wildlife and HIV/Aids charities, including American Eagle Foundation, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, Save The Music Foundation and Cancer Research UK. 

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On December 10, Parton will be honoured with the Hitmaker Award at the 15th annual Billboard’s Women in Music event which will be live streamed. Parton will be recognized for her contribution toward impacting the culture, inspiring female songwriters, and writing just as many hits as her male counterparts.

Overnight, Parton has had her famous song “Jolene” transformed by Northeastern University associate English professor Ryan Cordell, who recorded a version renamed “Vaccine,” with different lyrics;

“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine/ I’m begging of you, please go in my arm/ Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine/ Please just keep me safe from COVID harm,” Cordell sung in a video he posted on Twitter.
The lyrics were written by linguist and author Gretchen McCulloch. Cordell told The Boston Globe yesterday that he “loves that song.”

“I love Dolly Parton. I And I don’t know — I was inspired, so I went and grabbed my guitar.”

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Earlier today a reader alerted Women’s Agenda to a rather perplexing post she saw on Linked In. I took a look and was as perplexed as the reader.

I want to write about it but I am not going to share the post or the name of its creator.  As tempting as it is, public shaming online is problematic and personally I’m not convinced it’s warranted or helpful in this instance.

This is not the CEO of a publicly listed company making wildly offensive assertions nor a politician. It’s a private citizen using his own social media to pose a question and while his query is absolutely worth interrogating I don’t think his privacy needs to be betrayed in the process.

The question the author asked his followers is why more male business leaders say yes to a charity meeting than female business leaders. 

It isn’t clear how many leaders were approached but he said an equal number of men and women were invited, but only 20% of those leaders who agreed to pledge their time to support the charity are women.

“Come on girls! What’s going on?” were the words he actually used in a short video he posted.

In the post he specifically tagged and asked a number of women in his network to comment on what is getting in the way of women supporting charities.

Their responses were, unsurprisingly, frank. Many made the point that there are far more male business leaders than female leaders but given he said he had invited an equal number of both men and women this obviously isn’t the whole picture here.

A few things are worth noting. Globally and here in Australia it’s well established that women give more of their money and their time to charities than men do.

The fact his sample doesn’t reflect this doesn’t change that. (Though if enough women are declining his request to totally buck an established trend it certainly does raise the possibility that something in his invitation is potentially askew.)

But, even if that weren’t the case, and men were giving more time and money to charity,  it’s hardly proof that women are selfish, ungenerous monsters.

Frankly it would be a correction of sorts I’d be comfortable with given men both earn more money and have fewer unpaid demands on their time than women do.

That famous graph in this year’s Australian Institute of Family Studies study that illustrates that men’s lives still don’t change when a baby comes along is, as ever, enlightening. The demands on women’s time are different than the demands on men’s time.

Aside from earning less than men for the paid work they undertake, women are undertaking significantly more of the unpaid care work than men.

The saying goes that charity starts at home and in the overwhelming majority of households in Australia women are doing substantially more of the daily charity than men are.

Given women are physically, logistically and mentally overwhelmed, frankly it’s quite astonishing that a single woman found the time to accept his request in the first place. I suspect, after his most recent post, he might find even securing 20% female participants a stretch. Just a hunch.

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