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1. What is Womafreesm?

Womafreesm is an international nonprofit organization that turns women's lived experiences into evidence, research, legal pathways, institutional standards, and systemic change. It is registered in Florida and recognized as a US 501(c)(3) public charity.

2. Who is behind Womafreesm?

Womafreesm was founded by Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President. The system is built to work beyond one person: women from different countries take on specific roles, responsibility and work that can be verified. Governance and the Board of Directors are described on the Team page.

3. Where does Womafreesm stand politically?

Womafreesm is nonpartisan and open to women of different political views. Its framework is Synarchat, a mature model of shared governance in which women and men hold responsibility together for the laws, institutions and decisions a society lives by. The question is who writes the rules, what facts they rest on and whose lives they fail to see.

4. Who is this project for?

For women whose reality the rules leave out, and for everyone who lives by those rules. A system that confines a woman to a gender script confines a man to it as well. Womafreesm builds a system where women's reality is counted and influence is shared.

5. What can you actually change?

We turn women's experience into data. That data becomes arguments, legal action and proposals for change. That is how norms, standards, institutional decisions and laws begin to change.

6. Do I have to pay to participate?

Payment is one door among several. Volunteering, research participation, projects and partnerships are open without a fee. Membership costs $14 per month, or from $125 per month for Impact Circle Membership, and cancels in one click.

7. Can I participate without being public?

Yes. Participation is private by default. Your name, country and role are published only with your separate consent, and you decide whether to be visible and in what way.

8. Where does the money go, and can donors influence the research?

To research, legal work, the team, the website and Womafreesm's infrastructure. From fiscal year 2027, program, administrative and fundraising costs are published as separate lines on the Reports page after each year closes. Methodology, analysis and publications stay independent of funding.

About Womafreesm

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1. What is Womafreesm?

Womafreesm is an international nonprofit organization that turns women's lived experiences into evidence, research, legal pathways, institutional standards, and systemic change. The legal entity is THE WORLD ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN NATIONS WOMAFREESM INC., a Florida Not For Profit Corporation registered on 6 May 2025 with EIN 98-1867647 and 501(c)(3) public charity status.

2. How can I check that an international nonprofit organization supporting women is really registered?

A registered organization publishes its jurisdiction, legal form, registration number and tax status, and each line can be checked in a public register. Womafreesm is a Florida Not For Profit Corporation, Document Number N25000005813, EIN 98-1867647, status ACTIVE, with 501(c)(3) public charity status in category 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) from 6 May 2025. Its Florida registration to solicit contributions is CH85027.

3. Who founded Womafreesm?

Womafreesm was founded by Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President, who is the author of the concepts of Equal Consideration and Synarchat. The Florida Division of Corporations records her as President of THE WORLD ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN NATIONS WOMAFREESM INC.

4. What do international organizations supporting women actually change?

An organization changes something when it can name the mechanism: what it measures, what it protects and where the result is recorded. Womafreesm measures through the Womafreesm Evidence Data program; its first study, the Audit 45-64, covers five countries, with the first public result due in December 2026. Protection is being built through the Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway, and Legal Rapid Response turns systemic errors into petitions and legal documents.

5. Where is Womafreesm based?

Womafreesm works online and internationally. The team is distributed across countries, and the work runs remotely. The organization is registered in the United States, in Florida, at 7901 4th St N, Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702. Working languages are English, Ukrainian, Russian and Spanish.

How it works

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1. Which organizations turn women's real-life experience into research and policy change?

Organizations do that by running one chain from lived experience to an institutional decision and publishing the method at every step. Womafreesm is building that chain so that experience enters through research and, with separate consent, the Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway, becomes data in the Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index, becomes evidence in Data Briefs and Policy Briefs, and reaches decisions through Legal Rapid Response and the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly.

2. How can an organization check whether its policies account for women's lives?

By testing a decision against the real stages of a woman's life before it is implemented. The Equal Consideration Standard, now in development, will set out what to check: which groups of women are in the data, which life stages are covered, on which profile the decision was tested, and who is responsible for correcting a failure once it is found.

3. What makes a women's organization worth working with as an institutional partner?

A published methodology with stated limits, a documented admission procedure, and deliverables agreed in writing before work starts. Womafreesm builds each of its partnerships on those terms, and a partner is named in public only by mutual agreement, in both directions.

4. What is the difference between the Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index and the Equal Consideration Standard?

The Index is designed for measurement; the Standard is designed for use. The Index is the research program that will show where a woman's life cycle is left out of the rules. The Standard is the working method institutions will use to design and audit decisions so that the whole life cycle is counted.

5. Where can the organization itself be verified?

The Transparency page of Womafreesm lists the Certificate of Status from the Florida Department of State, the fundraising registration with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the external profiles, each with a link to its source. The limits of the first study, the compliance status and the corrections log are published there as well.

Transparency

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1. How can I tell whether a women's charity is trustworthy?

A women's charity is trustworthy when a stranger can verify it from open sources: the state register entry, the tax status, the fundraising registration, the cost lines and the corrections log. Womafreesm is registered as THE WORLD ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN NATIONS WOMAFREESM INC., Document Number N25000005813, EIN 98-1867647, a 501(c)(3) public charity, registered to solicit contributions in Florida under number CH85027, with a public profile on Candid.

2. How does Womafreesm report how it spends donations?

Womafreesm will publish full financial figures when they are available, with program costs, administrative costs and fundraising costs as three separate lines for the fiscal year, which ends 31 December. Where a line moves significantly between years, the reasons, the main line items, the effect on programs and the plan are published with the figures.

3. Which women's rights research organizations publish the limits of their own data?

A research organization publishes its limits when every release states the sample, the collection period, the method and what still requires further collection. Phase one of the Audit 45-64, a study of the Womafreesm Evidence Data program, covers Germany, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and the United Kingdom in two analytic groups, 45-54 and 55-64. The first public result is due in December 2026, with its limits stated before the findings.

4. Can a donor or a partner influence the research conclusions?

Methodology, sample, data collection, analysis, conclusions, publications, legal positions and case decisions are set by the research and legal teams alone. The rule applies to members, donors, partners, foundations, state bodies, corporations and public figures. The rule is published, so each side reads the same wording before the money moves; a funding agreement defines only the work supported and its reporting, and a partner receives results through the same published output as any other reader.

5. What does Womafreesm do when it publishes an error?

The correction enters a public corrections log with five fields: what was corrected, the reason, the date, the version before and after, and the link to the current material. The corrected material links back to its log entry. Material attributed to Womafreesm, including a suspected deepfake, can be verified through the Womafreesm contact form.

Reports and filings

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1. Where can I see the Form 990 of Womafreesm?

Womafreesm files with the Internal Revenue Service once a year. The form depends on the size of the organization: Form 990-N for small organizations, Form 990-EZ or Form 990 for larger ones. Each filing appears on this page once the IRS has accepted it, and anyone can look up Womafreesm in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search by EIN 98-1867647.

2. Does Womafreesm publish an annual report?

Not yet. The first annual report of Womafreesm covers 2026 and is published after that year closes, as a web page with a PDF version: what was built during the year, what changed, how resources were used and what remains unfinished. It is voluntary and separate from the annual report that every Florida corporation files with the Department of State.

3. When will Womafreesm publish its program, administrative and fundraising costs?

The three cost lines are published for each fiscal year from 2027, after the year closes, as part of the full financial figures for that year. The rules of this disclosure are on the Transparency page. Until then, the financial information that Womafreesm filed in Florida with its registration CH85027 is public in Check-A-Charity, the state register of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

4. How can I check that Womafreesm is a registered charity?

Use three public records. In the IRS database of tax-exempt organizations, look up Womafreesm by EIN 98-1867647. The Certificate of Status on the Transparency page can be authenticated on the website of the Florida Division of Corporations with the number printed at the bottom of the certificate. Check-A-Charity, run by FDACS, shows that Womafreesm is registered to solicit contributions in Florida under number CH85027.

5. How do I get a copy of a document that is not on this page?

Write to info@womafreesm.com and name the document you need, with the year it covers if you know it. Under US law, the annual IRS filings of a tax-exempt organization are public documents. Anything already published on this page needs no request at all: the file opens with one click, without a form.

Join and support

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1. How do I join Womafreesm?

You choose one of ten doors on womafreesm.com/join/. Most of them cost nothing. Membership is $14 per month and Impact Circle Membership from $125 per month. Each door has its own page with its terms and the next step.

2. Can I take part without paying?

Yes. Volunteering, research, help with your situation, professional expertise, partnership and cultural projects all cost nothing. Volunteering also opens membership without payment: three accepted tasks within thirty days.

3. What is the difference between becoming a member and making a donation?

A donation supports the work. Membership gives you a confirmed place in the organization: a status, a member ID, the internal materials and a voice in member consultations. You can do both, or either one on its own.

4. Does paying more give me more influence?

Every member has an equal voice in member consultations. Member costs $14 per month and Impact Circle Membership from $125 per month, and the voice is the same on both. A larger contribution brings more context, such as early access to research findings and a members-only quarterly review.

5. Will my name be published?

Only if you agree to it, separately, for that specific place, and you can take that agreement back. Where being publicly linked to an international organization would put a woman at risk, the work goes through local organizations instead.

6. Can I take part in the research?

The Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index is being prepared: 2026 is the architecture year, with methodology development and pilot preparation. Leave your email on the invitation page to hear from us the day the questionnaire opens. Two pilots of the Age-Gender Misclassification of Women Aged 45-64 in AI, Marketing and Hiring: An International Comparative Audit are complete, and we are now collecting data from recruitment agencies.

7. Which international women's organizations can a woman join?

An international women's organization works across borders under one legal entity and one published procedure. Womafreesm is registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3) public charity and opens ten ways to take part, most of them free. Membership is $14 per month.

8. What does a women's membership organization give a member?

A confirmed status and a stated set of rights, written down before any payment. In Womafreesm that means a member status, a member ID, a certificate, the monthly digest, the library of materials, the right to apply for a place in the Reading Order circle and an equal voice in member consultations.

Membership

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1. What is actually required from me as a Member or Impact Circle member?

Only an active membership contribution. You may read updates, answer short surveys and join selected Womafreesm actions if you choose to. Tasks are needed only on the separate Volunteer Guild path, where membership becomes active after 3 accepted tasks within 30 days. The paid levels support the system financially.

2. Why does Impact Circle Membership cost from $125 per month if every member has an equal voice?

Impact Circle Membership gives deeper context, while every member keeps an equal voice. The level includes a monthly Institutional Briefing, a members-only quarterly review and early access to selected research before public release. Your contribution keeps this work going and helps it produce results.

3. Does Womafreesm rely on unpaid women's labor?

The Volunteer Guild is a separate membership path built around specific tasks with a limited scope, clear outcomes and acceptance criteria. Paid roles remain paid roles. Volunteer tasks are a way into the organization, not a substitute for staff or professional work.

4. Does a donation make me a member?

A donation supports the work directly. Membership is a separate path that carries a confirmed status, a member ID and a voice in member consultations. You can do both: become a Member for $14 per month and give a separate donation of any amount, once or every month, on the donation page.

5. Will my membership be visible to anyone?

Membership is private by default. Your member ID confirms your status inside the organization, and your name, country and role are published only with your separate consent for a specific publication. Womafreesm is responsible for what the organization itself publishes; if you mention your membership publicly yourself, that choice stays yours.

6. How can I explain my membership in one sentence?

You can say: "I support research and legal work on the economics of women's lives. It is $14 per month, and I can cancel in one click." For Impact Circle Membership, say from $125 per month instead. Your membership stays private unless you choose to mention it.

Volunteer

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1. How do I volunteer for a women's organization online?

To volunteer online with Womafreesm, an international women's organization, you choose one of sixteen areas, receive a task with a clear scope and a defined result, and do it from wherever you are. Every accepted task is recorded, you can start with five minutes a week, and applying costs nothing.

2. What can I do as a volunteer if I only have a few minutes?

With a few minutes, you can post a Story from a ready-made template, collect three organization contacts in your country or translate three short texts into your language. Each of these tasks takes five to fifteen minutes, and once the result is accepted, it counts like any other task and is recorded.

3. Do I need experience or a qualification?

Most volunteer work at Womafreesm starts from what you already know how to do, and what you can do becomes clear from the work itself rather than from a form. Two areas ask for a professional background: legal support, and policy analysis and research. Professionals can also apply for a confirmed role through professional participation on this page.

4. What happens if I disappear for a month?

If you disappear for a month, everything you have done at Womafreesm is kept: your accepted tasks, your certificate and your member ID stay as they are. Your next accepted task makes your status active again, and if you know you need a break, tell us and your status is paused. Membership through volunteer work still needs three accepted tasks within 30 days.

5. Can I become a member without paying?

You can become a member of Womafreesm through your work instead of a payment: three accepted tasks within 30 days open membership through volunteer work, the Volunteer Guild path. This membership is recorded in your certificate and carries the same basic membership rights as Member, the $14 per month level. Your volunteer certificate and member ID come with your first accepted task.

6. Is Womafreesm built on unpaid women's work?

Volunteer tasks at Womafreesm have a limited scope and a defined result, and they are a way into the organization rather than a substitute for staff work. Jobs that need a professional on a salary or a contract are paid by Womafreesm. You choose how much you take on, and you can pause at any time and keep everything you have done.

7. What happens if my task is not accepted?

At Womafreesm, a volunteer task that still needs changes can be improved and submitted again. The coordinator who reviews it explains what to change, and you send the task in once more. Each task comes with criteria for how the result is accepted, so you know from the start what counts.

Donate

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1. How do I choose a women's charity I can trust with a donation?

Check four things: a registration you can look up in a public register, a tax number and charitable status, public filings, and a profile kept by an independent database. Womafreesm is a Florida Not For Profit Corporation (N25000005813), EIN 98-1867647, a public charity under 501(c)(3), registered to fundraise in Florida under number CH85027, with a public profile on Candid and listings on Every.org and Devex.

2. Where can I donate to support women internationally?

Look for an organization that works across borders under one legal entity and publishes how it works. Womafreesm is registered in the United States, works in English, Ukrainian, Russian and Spanish, and funds six areas of its work, from research and legal response to protection and culture.

3. Can I choose which area of work my donation funds?

For a standard donation, Womafreesm allocates each gift where it is needed most, so every area of work, including the smaller ones, stays funded. If you want to fund one area of work or a specific project, major support covers that by agreement.

4. Can I give every month?

Yes, the donation form offers monthly giving at any amount. Monthly donations help the system grow and plan its work. You can stop or change a monthly donation at any time, in one step, from the link in any Womafreesm email. You receive a receipt for each monthly payment, and every January an annual summary for your tax records.

5. Does a larger donation give more influence?

Womafreesm makes decisions on research and cases by its own procedures, the same for every gift. Methodology, sample, analysis, conclusions, publications, legal position and the decision to accept a case stay independent of funding. The rule applies equally to individuals, companies, foundations and public bodies, whatever the amount they give.

6. Is my donation tax deductible in the United States?

For United States taxpayers, a donation to Womafreesm is deductible to the extent allowed by law: the organization holds 501(c)(3) status as a public charity under EIN 98-1867647. Your receipt carries the legal name, the EIN, the amount and the date. For your own situation, ask your tax adviser.

7. What is the difference between donating and becoming a member?

A donation supports the work. Membership is a separate path with a confirmed status, a member ID and an equal voice in member consultations. Membership is $14 per month, and Impact Circle Membership, its higher level, is from $125 per month. You can do both, or either one on its own.

8. How is my data protected?

Womafreesm processes personal data under GDPR and UK GDPR where they apply. It collects only what your donation, your tax records and the emails you chose require, and access to that data is restricted. Analytics and ad measurement run only if you accept them in the cookie banner. Card details are entered in Stripe's secure form and stay with Stripe.

Partners

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1. Does a partnership with Womafreesm cost money?

Partnership with Womafreesm is free of charge: an organization contributes work, expertise, its audience, technology or funding, depending on the task. The partnership agreement sets the terms of each collaboration, including any work commissioned from experts. Where a partner provides funding, the agreement also sets the budget.

2. How does Womafreesm check a partner before an agreement?

Womafreesm checks every partner after the first conversation and before the collaboration is formalized. The team reviews the organization's public activity and possible conflicts of interest and runs a sanctions screening against the OFAC, EU and UK lists. The check covers the organization and its public representatives, and the agreement is drafted once the check is complete.

3. When can a partner's name or logo appear on Womafreesm materials?

Womafreesm shows a partner's name or logo after three steps: the check, the agreement and the partner's written consent to public mention. Until then the partnership stays private. Either side can remain unnamed for as long as it chooses, and the joint work continues in full.

4. Can a funder or partner influence the findings of Womafreesm research?

Womafreesm keeps its methodology, findings, publication decisions and legal position independent of every partner, at any level of funding. Access to women's personal data stays restricted and separate from partnership and funding. Each use of a woman's details has its own consent: passing them to a partner service, anonymized analysis, a public story.

5. Can a women's organization that works in one country become a partner?

Womafreesm partners with women's organizations and NGOs that work in a single country. The form of work depends on the country: a public partnership, work led by a verified local organization within an agreed mandate, or protected research with limited publicity. The law, the data rules and the safety of women and local participants determine the form.

6. How can a company partner with a women's nonprofit?

A company and a women's nonprofit have a reliable partnership when a written agreement sets the task, the budget and the expected results and keeps the research findings independent. Womafreesm, an international women's nonprofit, works with companies on these terms. Companies, employers and AI teams can also register interest in the Equal Consideration Standard pilot.

WLCE Index

Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index

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1. What is the Women’s Life-Cycle Economy Index?

The WLCE Index is the first global index of institutional consideration of the female life cycle, which Womafreesm is developing. It checks every rule twice: how far it accounts for a woman’s life against an international benchmark (for example, at least 14 weeks of maternity leave under ILO Convention 183), and what women actually received. Where no rule covers a stage of life at all, the Index records that too.

2. How does the WLCE Index differ from the Global Gender Gap Index and Women, Business and the Law?

The Global Gender Gap Index measures gender gaps in economic participation, education, health and political representation. Women, Business and the Law assesses legal frameworks, supportive policies and institutions, and expert assessments of enforcement. The WLCE Index compares the terms of a specific rule with the experiences of the women it affects, by life-cycle stage, decision system and Decision Function. This paired measurement is the foundation of its methodology.

3. Does the Index focus only on aging and menopause?

The Index covers different stages and circumstances of women's lives: pregnancy, recovery after childbirth, care, work, career breaks, health, migration, aging and interactions with technology. It examines these together, including the connections between them. The program's central question is how well institutions account for the life a woman actually lives.

4. Will there be country rankings?

Country comparisons are planned where they are supported by a separate probability sample. Results will be presented as estimates with uncertainty intervals and a range of possible positions. Country profiles and maps of Unconsidered Points may be published separately. Comparisons will be published where the way participants are selected and the quality of the data allow a sound comparison.

5. Do more responses make the results more representative?

More responses can capture a broader range of life circumstances. Whether the results are representative also depends on how participants are selected and whom the sample represents. Country comparisons will therefore use a separate probability sample. The open survey will gather a broad range of experiences for country and group profiles.

6. Can a donor determine the findings?

No. Before fieldwork begins, powers covering ethics, data access and external statistical audit will be established in writing. The donor agreement defines the funded work and reporting. Sampling, analysis and conclusions are governed by the research protocol. The Index will be published together with the auditor's report.

7. When will WLCE Index results be available?

The methodology will be published before data collection begins. The full Index is planned for the fourth year after the architecture year. The Index Results Register records preparation and completed milestones. The organization's next publication is the separate study "Age-Gender Misclassification of Women Aged 45-64 in AI, Marketing and Hiring: An International Comparative Audit" (the Audit 45-64), planned for December 2026. It builds the first evidence base for the Index.

8. What difference can my answer make if thousands of women have similar experiences?

Repeated experiences help reveal a pattern. Your response, alongside those of other women, helps test where the same rule produces similar consequences. An everyday experience can become a subject of research and a basis for discussing how a rule should change.

Equal Consideration Standard

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1. What is the Equal Consideration Standard?

The Equal Consideration Standard is Womafreesm’s practical standard for designing and auditing decisions that affect women’s lives. It checks which women are in the data, which stages of life are accounted for, which risks are measured, how the decision was tested, how it is corrected and contested, what is published and who is responsible. Its first edition will follow the pilot of the Women’s Life-Cycle Economy Index (WLCE Index).

2. How does an organization obtain a status?

The answer will be published here soon.

3. Can the assessing body help us fix what it found?

The answer will be published here soon.

4. When will the Standard start working?

The answer will be published here soon.

5. How can an organization check its decisions for gender bias?

The answer will be published here soon.

6. Can an organization pilot a gender bias audit for free?

The answer will be published here soon.

How the WLCE Index measures

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1. What is the unit of measurement in the WLCE Index?

A paired measurement: one institutional decision measured twice, as the rule is written and as the woman who went through it experienced it. Where the rule is below the benchmark, fails to reach her or is missing, the paired measurement records an Unconsidered Point, the Index’s unit of observation: a point in a woman’s life cycle where the system did not see her when it designed the rule.

2. What is a Decision Function in the WLCE Index?

The answer will be published here soon.

3. Why does the WLCE Index report two distances instead of one gap?

The answer will be published here soon.

4. What is Silent Denial in the WLCE Index?

The answer will be published here soon.

5. Where does the WLCE Index get its institutional data?

The answer will be published here soon.

6. How are country scores kept separate from individual answers?

The answer will be published here soon.

7. When will the WLCE Index formula be fixed?

The answer will be published here soon.

Ethics, participant safety and data

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1. Who reviews the ethics of the study?

The main protocol will be reviewed by an independent ethics committee outside Womafreesm, to be chosen in 2027, before data collection begins; fieldwork in each country will go through national review. Womafreesm’s internal board will prepare the documents and carry out the decisions; approval stays with the external committee.

2. Can I skip a question or leave the sensitive module?

The answer will be published here soon.

3. Will my answers be anonymous?

The answer will be published here soon.

4. Can a donor or the founder see my individual answers?

The answer will be published here soon.

5. Why is participant-level data kept in a secure environment?

The answer will be published here soon.

6. What happens if I withdraw?

The answer will be published here soon.

Independence and governance

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1. Can a funder influence the conclusions of the WLCE Index?

No. Methodology, sampling, data collection, analysis, conclusions, publications and country scores will be governed by the research protocol and the powers to be set in writing, not by the funding agreement. A funder receives the reporting the agreement provides for, and aggregated results.

2. What of this is already signed?

The documents on the powers are not yet signed: the governing documents are being prepared in 2026, the architecture year, and the plan is to choose the external ethics committee and the auditor during 2027, before data collection begins. The date of each signing will appear in the Index Results Register.

3. Who can stop fieldwork in a country?

As the Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index is designed, the people responsible for ethics within the program will have the power to stop fieldwork in a country if participants there are at risk. The stop will apply immediately, with no approval needed from the leadership. Lifting it will be a decision for the external ethics committee alone; that committee will be independent, and the leadership will not review its decisions.

4. Who decides access to participants' data?

Every request for personal data in the WLCE Index (anything that can be linked to a specific woman) will be decided by those responsible for data governance, under the same rules for everyone. They will have authority to refuse anyone, the founder and funders included; a refusal is final. Researchers will ask the Data Access Committee for participant-level data; it will set the aim, dataset, period and conditions of access.

5. Where does research funding go, and what does a funder decide?

Money for the WLCE Index research pays for its infrastructure: collecting answers, protecting data, analysis and publication. What a funder agrees to is set out in the funding agreement: the work supported, its budget, timeline, outputs and reporting. Decisions about methods and findings stay outside that agreement. The Reports page will publish Womafreesm's program, administrative and fundraising costs for each fiscal year from 2027, once that year closes.

6. Why was the World Bank's Doing Business report discontinued?

The World Bank discontinued Doing Business on 16 September 2021, after an independent investigation found that data for several countries had been altered under pressure from senior management, that some rules were never written down, and that governments rated by the index also paid the Bank for advisory services. Womafreesm applies these lessons to the WLCE Index: written powers, an external auditor's report, and assessment kept apart from consulting.

7. Who will audit the WLCE Index?

Each edition of the WLCE Index will go through an external statistical audit by an auditor independent of the Index team; choosing the auditor is planned for 2027, ahead of data collection. The auditor will test whether the results are statistically sound and how far a country's position shifts under calculation variants described in advance. Every edition will come out only alongside the auditor's report.

How data is collected

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1. Will two million questionnaires make the results representative?

No, and the Women’s Life-Cycle Economy Index (WLCE Index) does not claim it. The program is designed for 2,000,000 quality-checked questionnaires across all collection paths: they will make rare situations and different life paths visible. The survey part of a country’s score is computed from a separate random sample, because in an open survey no one knows who saw the invitation.

Status of the WLCE Index and the pilot

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1. Can I take the questionnaire already?

Not yet: 2026 is the architecture year of the WLCE Index. Collection will begin with the pilot once its documents are published and the launch conditions are met; the pilot countries and the conditions of participation will be published before the questionnaire opens. Leave your email and country on the Take part page: one email will come when the survey opens in your country. Taking part is free and private.

Partner organizations

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1. Can our organization collect data from our own members?

Yes, and those answers are valuable: they add to the base of women’s experience, where rare situations and particular groups of women become visible. The survey part of the country score takes interviews with women selected by the program’s scheme, and a partner can conduct those interviews too.

For researchers

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1. What will be open?

The WLCE Index methodology, questionnaires, codebook, calculation code, aggregates after a disclosure-risk check and synthetic data will be open. Individual participants’ answers will be available only inside a secure research environment under a data access agreement: pseudonymized data is still personal data.

WLCE Index Results Register

1. What is the WLCE Index Results Register?

A dated record of what the WLCE Index has done, what is in progress, what is blocked and why. Entries are never deleted; a change of status is added as a new line. Womafreesm keeps this register for the Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index.

2. Which stages of development does the register cover?

The register starts in March 2026, when the Index was named in the organization's core strategy documents, and follows the path since: the first public descriptions in April, the architecture in June, the methodology research and the baseline formula in September, and the preparation of the public pages. Data collection has not started; entries about it will begin with the pilot.

3. Why does a research index publish what is blocked?

Because a funder, a partner or a participant needs to know what has not happened yet and what it depends on. Each blocked entry names what stands in the way, what depends on it and what unblocks it. One example from the WLCE Index: the choice of the legal entity responsible for the data waits for a lawyer's opinion, and completing the data protection impact assessment depends on that choice.

4. How often is it updated?

On every change of status, and no less than once a quarter. The dates of the last and the next update are shown at the top of the page. Any change of status is added to the register within seven days, and each update gets a new version date.

5. How is the WLCE Index Results Register different from the Womafreesm Registry of Results?

This register records the work on the WLCE Index. The Registry of Results is the public record of what Womafreesm has completed, what is in progress and what is blocked; the public registry opens together with the first result of the study "Age-Gender Misclassification of Women Aged 45-64 in AI, Marketing and Hiring: An International Comparative Audit" (the Audit 45-64), due in December 2026.

6. What does the "Refined" status mean?

Refined is the status of an entry in the WLCE Index Results Register that makes an earlier decision more precise or changes it, with a reference to the first entry, for example "Refines the entry of 24 April 2026". The first entry stays on the page: entries are not deleted, and a change is added as a new line.

Glossary of the WLCE Index

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1. Who created the terms Equal Consideration, Unconsidered Point, Consideration Deficit and Silent Denial?

Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President, Womafreesm, developed the system of four terms with their definitions. She is also the author of the concept and architecture of the Women's Life-Cycle Economy Index. Equal Consideration is the principle. The Index looks for Unconsidered Points and measures two distances: the Consideration Deficit, from the benchmark to the rule, and the Silent Denial, from the rule to what the woman received.

2. Why are the four terms canonical in English?

The four original terms of the WLCE Index were created in English, so their English names and definitions are canonical. Each term first gets its English definition and is then translated: a translation repeats the English meaning and adds nothing of its own. Each language version of the site places its translation next to the English name.

3. How are the terms written on pages in other languages?

In every language version other than English, the four original terms and paired measurement are written in the language of the page, with the English name in parentheses: in Russian, Равноучтение (Equal Consideration); in German, Gleichberücksichtigung (Equal Consideration). The parentheses appear at the first mention in each block: a card, a section or an answer. Names of programs and products, such as the Equal Consideration Standard, stay in English.

4. What is the difference between Equal Consideration and the Equal Consideration Standard?

Equal Consideration is the mandatory consideration of the real parameters of human life when a system is designed and a decision is made: it is the principle. The Equal Consideration Standard is the practical standard of Womafreesm for designing and auditing decisions that affect women's lives: it is the tool. Its first edition will follow the WLCE Index pilot.

5. Where can I check changes to the terms?

Changes to the terms are recorded in the Index Results Register. Its Decision history records the glossary of terms dated 25 April 2026 and the decision of 12 September 2026: terms are created in English and then translated. Its Withdrawn section records the working terms "design deficit" and "translation loss": other fields already used both terms with different meanings, so Consideration Deficit and Silent Denial replaced them.

Research and ideas

Audit 45-64

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1. Has the audit already started?

Yes. The questions and the proposed design are set out in the concept note, and two instrument pilots of the audit are complete: a feasibility pilot with 960 AI responses in five countries and a matched-profile test. The main phase will begin once the protocol is finalized and preregistered, the research materials are validated, and the required governance and module-specific ethics arrangements are in place.

2. What will be published in December 2026?

The first public report is planned for December 2026. Its scope will reflect the modules completed and validated by that stage. Results in any direction are published with the same completeness.

3. Why are the 45-54 and 55-64 groups measured separately?

Their positions may differ in visibility, authority and value. The audit analyzes the two groups separately and uses several exact ages within each, so it can test whether a change is gradual or appears near 55.

4. Why study marketing, hiring and expert selection together?

Systems assess a woman's relevance to a market segment, her suitability for a role and her expertise in different places. Marketing decides who is a desirable audience, hiring decides who is a strong candidate, and expert selection decides whose word carries weight. A pattern that repeats across all three points to the system; a pattern in one place shows where to look.

5. Why do recruitment agencies matter for the study?

Public job postings show the official language. Employers' informal expectations appear later: in long lists, shortlists and comments on suitable profiles. Agencies see this layer and share it in aggregated form.

6. Are candidates' personal data collected?

The recruitment module works with data provided in an agreed aggregated or anonymized format and checked for disclosure risk before transfer: frequencies, wordings and preference patterns. Candidates' resumes, names and contact details stay with the agencies. The AI audit uses synthetic profiles only.

7. Can a donor influence the findings?

No. Decisions on the sample, coding, analysis, conclusions and publication rest with the research team under the protocol. Donors receive aggregated results and the reporting set in their funding agreement.

8. Can a woman aged 45-64 take part?

This audit collects AI responses, marketing materials and data from recruitment professionals. Women's own experience will be collected by the WLCE Index questionnaire, which is being prepared: leave your email on the WLCE Index page to get an invitation when it opens.

9. Where can I see the budget?

In the donor kit, together with the phases, modules and ways to support. Foundations, major donors and institutional partners can request it.

The Philosophy of Womafreesm

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1. What does "Women are not broken. The system is" mean?

It is the starting position. When different women keep running into the same obstacle, the question goes to the rules they live by. Womafreesm tests that question with data and evidence and works to change the rules where the error is confirmed.

2. How can anyone prove that a rule harms women?

Repeated harm becomes a reason for research. A rule is checked twice: what it promises on paper and what women actually receive under it, and the result is compared with an international benchmark, for example at least 14 weeks of maternity leave under ILO Convention 183. Womafreesm is building the WLCE Index and the Equal Consideration Standard on this logic.

3. How is Equal Consideration different from equality?

Equality is often understood as one and the same rule for everyone. Equal Consideration requires a rule to account for the real lives of the people it affects: their bodies, their age, their care for others, their professional transitions. A rule that is identical for all can still leave a woman out of the calculation, and Equal Consideration checks whether her life was counted.

Equal Consideration

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1. What does Equal Consideration mean in plain terms?

Equal Consideration is the mandatory consideration of the real parameters of human life when a system is designed and a decision is made. In plain terms: a rule, protocol or algorithm is designed around how people actually live. In Womafreesm's work, women's experience, physiology, life stages and circumstances enter the data, the design, the testing and the assessment of consequences.

2. How does Equal Consideration help make equal rights real?

Equality sets the goal of equal rights and opportunities. Equal Consideration turns that goal into a design task: whose life the rule provides for and who will be able to use it. In the Womafreesm approach the check is built around three elements: a benchmark from an external document, a check from two sides (the rule and the experience) and the naming of the link where the loss occurred.

3. Why does Womafreesm focus on women's lives?

The principle applies to any human life, and the nine questions can be asked about any group a rule affects. Womafreesm starts with women's lives because they are often missing from the data behind rules: pregnancy, care, recovery and aging have been treated as personal circumstances. Differences among women of different ages, countries and cultures are counted the same way.

4. How do Equal Consideration and the Equal Consideration Standard differ?

Equal Consideration is the principle. The Equal Consideration Standard is being developed as the procedure for applying it: what to check, how to find flaws, which changes to make and how to assess the result. The first version of the Standard will be formed after the pilot, on the basis of its results.

5. Can a donor determine the findings?

No. The support agreement defines the funded work, its budget and reporting, while the methodology, sampling, analysis and publication of results are governed by the research protocol. The powers, responsibilities and procedure for research decisions will be set out in writing before data collection begins; the status of these documents is shown in the Index Results Register.

6. Can this approach be applied today?

Yes. Start with one decision in your organization and the nine questions on this page. The result, a list of missing data and checks, can go to the team responsible for that rule. How compliance with the Standard is confirmed will be defined in its first version after the pilot. To discuss the pilot, contact Womafreesm through the partnership page.

7. Who developed the concept of Equal Consideration?

The concept of Equal Consideration, the Russian term "Равноучтение" and the system of definitions used in the Womafreesm architecture were developed by Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President, Womafreesm. The English name of the term, Equal Consideration, and its definition are canonical; the phrase equal consideration has appeared in ethical literature before, and the Womafreesm definition is its own. This page is the primary source of the definition, and the wording here is the original.

Synarchat

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1. What is Synarchat in plain words?

Synarchat is a mature model of shared governance in which women and men hold responsibility together for the laws, institutions and decisions a society lives by, keeping their differences and carrying equal weight in how decisions are made. Synarchat covers laws, work, medicine, technology, the economy and other decisions that shape people's opportunities.

2. Is Synarchat a matriarchy?

No. The patriarchal model treated male experience as universal and pushed women's reality to the margins. A simple swap of the center of power would reproduce the same model of dominance in a different form. Synarchat changes the logic of the design itself: both sides hold responsibility for decisions, differences are kept, and both carry equal weight.

3. What does equal weight for women's and men's experience mean?

Both kinds of experience carry full value in framing the problem, in research, in choosing a decision and in assessing the result. Taking part must give a real ability to influence each of these stages. The specific mechanisms for that influence need to be set out in the rules of institutions.

4. How is Synarchat connected to Equal Consideration?

Equal Consideration requires taking the real parameters of human life into account when systems are designed. Synarchat describes how women and men take part together in creating these systems and share responsibility for how they work.

5. Does Synarchat assume that women and men hold the same views?

Synarchat starts from the diversity of life experience. Women and men may have different interests, beliefs and proposals. Mature shared governance needs fair procedures for discussion, for testing arguments, and for making and revising decisions.

6. Is Synarchat already working as a system of governance?

At Womafreesm, Synarchat has been formulated as a philosophical model and a direction of development. The research, legal and institutional tools are at different stages of preparation. Their status and results are recorded in the Results Register.

7. Who is the author of the concept?

Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President, Womafreesm, is the author of the concept and the term Synarchat, of its original definition and of its philosophy within the architecture of Womafreesm. This page is the primary source of the definition, and the wording on it is the original.

World Women's Assembly

Womafreesm World Women's Assembly

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1. Will our organization lose its mission or its name inside the Assembly?

You keep both. Your organization stays a separate legal entity and keeps its own mission, governance, staff, finances and public statements. Partnership is nonexclusive, so you can work with other networks too. Your name and logo appear on Assembly materials only after you agree in writing, and you always keep the right to speak in your own name.

2. Is the Assembly another network with meetings and no results?

The Assembly is built around results you can check. Every case gets a number and a decision with its reason. Joint documents carry a stated evidence level, so a decision-maker sees what stands behind them. The public Registry of Results, due to open in December 2026, will show what is complete, what is in progress, what is blocked and why.

3. How much does partnership cost?

Partnership is free. Financial support is voluntary, separate from admission, and has no effect on a partner's status or voice. The memorandum of cooperation creates no financial obligations between the parties. Submitting a case and joining the expert network are free as well.

4. Is the Assembly political?

The Assembly is strictly nonpartisan. It endorses no parties or candidates, and women with different political views work in it side by side. What unites them is shared standards and evidence about the rules that shape women's lives, and each finding stays within what its evidence level allows.

5. Who makes decisions in the Assembly?

Decisions rest on the four founding documents, on evidence and on a fair procedure. Every case is reviewed by the Executive Director of the Assembly. Each participant with voting status has one equal vote, and no contribution changes its weight. The Assembly Statute sets out who holds which powers.

6. Can a funder influence a case or a finding?

Findings follow the evidence level, whoever funds the work. Under the Code of Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy, a donor has no right to influence a decision on a case, a finding or how data is classified, and under the Statute money does not make a vote heavier. Both documents set out the full rules on independence from funders and what the Assembly must publish about its activities and spending.

7. Is it safe to submit a case?

Your case is fully confidential by default. It is published only at the level you choose, anonymized or with your name, and any publication is agreed with you separately. You can stay anonymous as long as you leave a secure contact. Where publication could put anyone at risk, safety ranks above publicity, and a fully confidential case can still count as an anonymized record.

8. Who can submit a case to the Assembly?

Anyone aged 18 or over, from any country: a woman, a group of women, an organization, a researcher, a journalist, a newsroom or an institution. You can stay anonymous or use a pseudonym if you leave a safe way to reach you: without one, the Assembly cannot tell you its decision or ask you a question.

9. What will I get if I submit a case to the Assembly?

The Assembly gives you a case number, then checks the case. After that you receive a decision with the reason through the contact you chose: whether this is a systemic failure, whom it concerns and what the Assembly will do. Most cases join the evidence base and strengthen similar cases; cases for direct action are chosen by severity, scale and urgency.

10. Does the Assembly provide a lawyer or emergency help?

No. Legal Rapid Response works with systemic errors, not with single cases: Womafreesm lawyers prepare petitions and legal documents so that the rule itself changes. It is not a law firm or a rescue service. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number first. Womafreesm does not replace emergency services. For help with your own situation, start with the Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway help finder.

11. Where can a women's organization take a case that keeps repeating in many women's lives?

To the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly. A practice that harms many women under one rule is the kind of case it is built for. Submit it as a systemic case with the documents and numbers you already have. Once the same pattern is confirmed in several cases, the Assembly can build an Evidence Brief on it.

12. How does one woman's case become evidence that can change a rule?

At the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly, her case is checked and given an evidence level from 1 to 5, from a personal testimony to systemic evidence confirmed across countries. When the same pattern shows up in several cases, it can reach level 3 and support an Evidence Brief. Research evidence at level 4 can support a Policy Brief aimed at changing the rule, and level 5 a Standard.

13. Why join now, at the start of the Assembly's work?

Organizations that join now can take part in the first working groups and contribute to the first joint documents of the Assembly. Admission follows the same written procedure for every organization, and partnership is free. Every partner keeps its own mission, governance and public voice.

Partnership with the Assembly

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1. How can a local women's organization take its cases to an international level?

A local women's organization can take its cases to an international level through partnership with the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly, which is free and open to organizations from any country. Its cases follow one written procedure, and each decision comes with its reason. Joint work on these cases can produce an evidence review, an expert opinion, a joint study, a coordinated submission or a recommendation for public or professional institutions.

2. What does a women's organization give up when it joins an international network, and can it work with other networks at the same time?

A women's organization that partners with the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly keeps its legal, operational and institutional independence, mission, governance, finances, staff and public statements. Partnership is nonexclusive: it can work with other networks if it keeps agreements and discloses conflicts of interest. Either side can end it with at least 30 days' written notice; the Assembly can suspend or end it after a breach of the Partnership Terms.

3. Which organizations can apply for partnership?

Any organization from any country whose work fits the Assembly's mission can apply, from a local women's group to a university or a media organization. Registration is not required to apply. Political parties, election campaigns, extremist organizations and groups that call for violence, systematically spread disinformation or discriminate cannot receive partner status.

4. What happens after we send the application?

The first part of your application goes to the Executive Director of the Assembly for an initial check. If it passes, the second part of the form opens. Then you receive one of four decisions: approval, approval with conditions, further review after clarifications, or refusal with an explanation. After approval, both sides sign the memorandum, you accept the Partnership Terms, and together we plan the first steps.

5. When does our organization become a partner?

Your organization becomes a partner on the day the memorandum of cooperation is signed by both sides. Both sides sign it after a positive decision or, for an approval with conditions, once those conditions are met, and the first joint steps are agreed at the same time. Voting rights in the Assembly depend on the role, status and level of activity of each participant.

6. Can our organization speak on behalf of the Assembly?

Not as a partner alone. Partner status does not give the right to speak for the Assembly: that needs a separate official mandate for a named person, with a set subject, scope and term. Your organization still speaks about its own work, its position and the partnership in its own name. Who grants a mandate is set out in the Assembly Statute.

7. Do we have to announce the partnership publicly?

No. You decide whether your partnership with the Assembly becomes public. Your name, logo and a description of the cooperation appear only after you agree in writing. If you speak about it, you use one of the wordings set in the memorandum: "Partner of Womafreesm World Women's Assembly", "Assembly Partner" or the name of your partner category. Using the Assembly's name and logo requires its written permission.

8. What happens to the data of the women in our cases?

In the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly, data about the women in your cases is shared only as far as a task needs, through an agreed channel, for agreed work only. We check that you may share a woman's details. Access depends on task and role. Partners and experts abroad receive only the necessary minimum, with contractual safeguards. A woman is named publicly only with her explicit consent.

Expert network of the Assembly

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1. How can a lawyer or researcher contribute expertise to women's rights cases in other countries?

Through the expert network of the Womafreesm World Women's Assembly. The Assembly accepts cases from any country. You apply once and list your fields, working languages and availability. When a case or a study needs your field, a coordinator discusses the task with you, for example a first assessment, fact-checking, legal analysis or an expert opinion. Terms are agreed first, and you stay professionally independent.

2. Which experts can join an international network working on women's rights cases?

The Womafreesm World Women's Assembly looks for professionals with confirmed qualifications in law and human rights, economics, health, education, social work, research and data analysis, technology and AI, public policy, security and media. You can also apply with expertise in the care economy or in age discrimination and women 45+. One case can need several fields at once: a legal question may meet medical evidence and data analysis.

3. Is expert work in the Assembly paid?

It depends on the task, and you will know before you start. Volunteer work does not replace paid roles. Where a job needs a professional on a salary or a contract, Womafreesm pays for it. Each task has its own terms: payment, a volunteer contribution or another format, agreed with you in advance together with the question, the result and the timing. Joining the expert network costs nothing.

4. Can I take part in single tasks only?

Yes. When you apply, you choose a format: a one-time consultation, a project or regular participation. You also give your availability, in hours a month or as a description of the workload you can take on. Each task is discussed with your availability in mind, and work begins only once you have agreed on the role, the result and access to data.

5. How does the Assembly handle an expert's conflict of interest?

Disclose it before work starts. Under the Assembly's Code of Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy, a conflict is not a violation in itself; hiding it is. Name financial or professional ties, public offices, public party or campaign roles, or a dispute with someone in a case; for family ties, say only that a conflict exists, without names. Your role is then defined or limited, or another specialist takes over.

6. Will my name and workplace be published?

Only if you agree. Taking part in the Assembly does not require publicity. We agree with you on your name, workplace and authorship separately for each piece of work, depending on its nature, what you actually contributed and how public you want to be. Access to working materials is also set by the level of confidentiality you choose. Speaking on behalf of the Assembly needs a separate mandate.

7. Do I need a professional license to apply to the expert network?

You do not need a license number to apply. It is needed only for a task where a license is required. To show your experience, choose what you have: a profile on your institution's website, publications, a portfolio or an entry in a professional register. If proof of your education, license or experience is needed, we will ask for it through a channel agreed with you.

Submit a case

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1. Can I submit anonymously?

Yes. Leave any name or a pseudonym, and one safe contact: an email address nobody else reads, or another channel you trust. Without a contact, the Assembly cannot tell you the decision or ask you a question. When an anonymous case is used outside the Assembly or in research, it carries nothing that identifies you.

2. Can my employer or the other side find out that I submitted a case?

Not from the Assembly, unless a law or a court requires it. Only those who work on your case see it, and nothing is published above the level you chose. We check facts with anyone outside the Assembly only with your separate consent. Unless you allow it in the form, the name Womafreesm stays out of the sender name and subject line of our messages.

3. I am not sure my situation is systemic. Should I still submit?

Yes. Whether a case shows a systemic pattern is for the Assembly to decide, not for you. One case can be the first record of a pattern nobody has counted yet. If the case is declined, you receive the reason, and if a partner or a service fits better, the answer says where to turn.

4. Will I get a lawyer?

We cannot promise this. For some cases, a legal assessment and a route to a legal partner are possible; this is decided after we study the facts, the law of the country and the expertise available. The Assembly does not act as a law firm, so it cannot guarantee a lawyer or money for a court case.

5. How do I change my mind or withdraw?

Send us a message from the email or channel you used in the form, and include your case number. You can change the publicity level, add information or withdraw the case. When you withdraw consent, your personal data is deleted or anonymized within 30 days. What is already anonymized stays in our evidence base, since it no longer leads to you.

6. I am an organization. Is the route different?

The route is the same, and so is the form. An organization can add documents and figures later, when asked, and a practice that repeats is looked at as a systemic case. Regular work with the Assembly runs through partnership, which is free; the terms and admission steps for partner organizations are set out on a separate page.

7. Where can I report discrimination against women that keeps happening?

The Womafreesm World Women's Assembly takes cases of repeated discrimination against women, from any country, through the form on this page. A case can be an event, a situation, a practice, a policy, a decision or a systemic problem that affects women's rights, safety, opportunities or position. Each case gets a number, it is read and checked, and you receive a decision with its reason.

8. How do I find out what is happening with my case?

Reply to any message from us, or write to us from the contact you chose and give your case number. The number alone is not enough: answers about a case go only to that contact, which protects you. There is no personal account to log in to. What each of the eight statuses means is explained on the Assembly's main page.

Coalition and Declaration

The Human Dignity Covenant

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1. What exactly do I accept with my signature?

You accept the full text of the stated edition of the Declaration of the Co-Authors of the World. Dignity, Equal Consideration and shared governance become the foundations of your own decisions and actions. The number and date of the edition are kept with your signature and included in your copy of the Covenant. Each new edition is accepted by a separate decision.

2. What will I receive after signing?

Once a personal signature is confirmed, the system prepares a named copy of The Human Dignity Covenant and sends it to your email. The document has a personal page with your name, the date and the record number, followed by the full text of the Declaration you accepted. You can download it again on the signature management page. Private and public signatories receive it on the same terms.

3. Will my signature be public?

By default, your signature stays private. You allow the publication of your name and of each additional detail separately. Before anything is published, you can check your card and send it for publication. In your settings, you can hide the public entry and keep the signature itself. This change applies on the Womafreesm site; copies that other people saved earlier may remain.

4. Which emails will I receive?

Emails needed for signing: confirmation of your email address, your copy of the Covenant and messages for managing your signature. An organization's representative also receives messages about the review of the application. News of the Covenant and invitations to take part further are sent only with a separate voluntary consent, which you can manage in your settings and through the link in every email.

5. Who can sign the Declaration on behalf of an organization?

A representative whose authority allows them to accept the Declaration in the organization's name. They confirm their work email and give a link or a document that proves their authority, and the signature is accepted after these details are checked. Confirming an email shows access to the address; the identity and authority of a public representative are checked separately.

6. How are the signature, membership and the World Coalition connected?

Your signature means that you accept the Declaration, and signing and receiving the named copy are free. Membership, financial support and taking part in the Womafreesm World Coalition are arranged separately, by your own choice. The right to represent Womafreesm and any leadership authority are granted through a separate procedure.

7. Can I change my choice?

Yes. On the My signature page, you can manage publicity, get your document again, change your news settings and withdraw your signature. Hiding your name keeps the signature private. Withdrawing the signature is a separate step, and after it the signature no longer counts as valid.

Principles of the Declaration in action

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1. Are these mandatory tasks for signatories?

A signatory accepts the Declaration in full and confirms readiness to be guided by its principles. The examples on this page help you choose a way to apply them. The specific actions and the scope of participation depend on your authority, resources and circumstances.

2. Do I need to publish the result?

Publicity is voluntary. To assess your own work, it is enough to discuss the changes with the people they affected. Publishing their names, stories and other personal details is possible only with their separate consent. The same goes for your own name: it appears on the site only if you choose to publish it.

3. What if I have little influence?

You can start with an exact description of the situation, a question about the current rule or a conversation with people who face a similar difficulty. Choose your next step with your safety and real abilities in mind. Responsibility for making and carrying out a decision stays with those who hold the authority for it.

4. Have participants already carried out these examples?

This page offers possible actions for you to apply yourself. To present a specific case as an achieved result, the changes have to be confirmed and the participants have to consent to their details being published. Until then, the page shows examples, not reports.

5. How is this page connected to the Declaration and the World Coalition?

The Declaration of the Co-Authors of the World sets out the principles, and this page suggests ways to apply them in your own life and work. For a task that needs partners, the Womafreesm World Coalition is being formed to bring people and organizations together. You can sign the Declaration on the main page of the Covenant.

Projects

FreeWoman

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1. What is FreeWoman?

FreeWoman is the international satirical animation project of The World Organization of Women Nations Womafreesm. Through short animated films, visual metaphor and intelligent satire it opens up the cultural rules that shape a woman's age, appearance, strength, voice, ambitions and right to occupy space in society.

2. What problem does FreeWoman address?

FreeWoman makes visible the social scripts that a woman often takes for a personal problem. The fear of age, shame about the body, the duty to please, the pressure of beauty standards, punishment for directness and gradual public invisibility are formed by culture, language, advertising, media and habitual behaviour. The project moves personal experience into systemic understanding and returns to a woman the right to define the value of her own life.

3. Who is FreeWoman for?

FreeWoman is made for women of different ages who meet public expectation, double standards, pressure over appearance, limits on ambition and the demand to match an established image of femininity. The project also speaks to men, families, employers, journalists, researchers, educational institutions and cultural organizations interested in a more mature and fair order of society.

4. What is female ageism?

Female ageism means age discrimination against women and the lowering of their public, professional or cultural value as they grow older. It appears in hiring, career development, advertising, cinema, relationships, the beauty industry and everyday language. FreeWoman shows how these mechanisms become part of a woman's own thinking and begin to govern her decisions.

5. Why does FreeWoman use animation?

Animation turns hidden social rules into concrete visual images. A woman's age becomes a price tag. A wrinkle becomes a state of emergency. Public invisibility takes the form of physical disappearance. A commission checks whether a woman is convenient, young and safe enough for those around her. Through such an image a complex cultural problem becomes clear in a few seconds.

6. Can I suggest a theme for a new episode?

Yes. Women, experts, journalists and partner organizations can send a cultural norm, a phrase, a situation or a public mechanism that deserves satirical treatment. The strongest themes hold a recognisable contradiction, touch a large number of women, and allow one strong visual image.

7. Can I send a personal story?

Yes. Personal stories help to find recurring cultural scripts and to build episodes based on real experience. Publication of a name, an image or personal data happens only after separate agreement. Womafreesm works on the principle of privacy by default.

8. Where will the FreeWoman episodes be published?

FreeWoman is being developed for publication in social networks, on digital media platforms, in educational programmes, at cultural events and international festivals. The short animation format allows episodes to be adapted for different venues and language audiences.

Beyond Comparison

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1. What is Beyond Comparison?

Beyond Comparison is an international cultural, documentary and research project of Womafreesm, an international nonprofit organization registered in Florida, United States, with 501(c)(3) public charity status. A woman chooses one line on her face and tells the story of the event behind it, and her account becomes part of an international digital archive of women’s own words about age, work, love, loss and authority. The material is being collected for a book, exhibitions and a documentary series, and, with separate written consent, for an anonymized research layer on female ageism and the representation of mature women. The research direction of Womafreesm measures a related subject in the study “Age-Gender Misclassification of Women Aged 45-64 in AI, Marketing and Hiring: An International Comparative Audit”; its first public report is planned for December 2026.

2. What problem does Beyond Comparison address?

The project works with female ageism, the cultural pressure of youth and the gradual shrinking of a woman’s public visibility as she grows older. These attitudes affect careers, self-perception, the representation of women in media, the relationship with the body and the right to keep influence in maturity. Beyond Comparison builds a new system of meaning in which a woman’s age becomes the evidence of a life lived and of human value accumulated.

3. Why is a line on the face the central image of the project?

A line joins an outward change to an inner story. Behind one line may stand the birth of a child, the writing of a book, the loss of someone close, emigration, love, war, years of responsibility, a hard decision, or the laughter that stayed with a woman all her life. The project moves attention from judging appearance to the content of what was lived. A line becomes the entrance to a woman’s biography.

4. Who can tell their story?

Participation is open to women aged 18 and over, of any profession, culture, country and public role. Actresses, singers, writers, artists, scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs, athletes, public leaders and women whose names are not yet known to a wide audience can all take part. The value of a story is set by its truthfulness, its depth and its ability to reveal an important human meaning.

5. How do I tell my story?

Fill in the form on this page. Pick one line on your face, think of the event it holds for you, and tell what was happening in your life, what choice you made, what changed inside you and what kind of woman you became after that experience. You can add photos, video or audio.

6. What is the book of the project called?

The book of the project is called Beyond Comparison: Candid Stories of Women Who Changed the World and Themselves, and it is in preparation. It will bring together portraits and personal accounts of women about the events that changed their lives, their view of the world and their relationship with themselves.

7. Can I keep my privacy?

Every participant decides how public her story is: with her full name, with her first name only, or anonymized. Her name, photograph, video and personal account are used publicly only after her separate written consent. Privacy and respect for a participant’s boundaries are part of the principles of Womafreesm.

8. Does the project support one particular approach to appearance?

The project supports a woman’s freedom to define her own relationship with her appearance. Natural aging, cosmetology, makeup, plastic surgery and other decisions belong to the woman herself. The central principle is her own authorship and her freedom from the pressure to match someone else’s expectations.

Womafreesm Reading Order

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1. How do I choose an international book club where people really talk?

Check three things: the size of the group, whether the same people meet all season, and whether everyone gets to speak. Womafreesm Reading Order keeps a fixed circle of 12 to 16 readers for a five-month season and splits into threes during each 90-minute meeting. Its open evenings take place in rooms of five, so every person speaks.

Legal Rapid Response

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1. Can Legal Rapid Response take my case to court?

No. Legal Rapid Response works with errors in rules that repeat for many women, and its result is a petition or a legal document that changes the rule, not a court case for one person. For help with your own situation, use the Womafreesm Women’s Protection Pathway: it shows help services in your country, legal aid included.

Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway

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1. Can I ask Womafreesm for help directly now?

Womafreesm is building the Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway now. The way to send a request, the channels, the hours and the terms are published on this page when intake opens. For help today, use the help finder at the top of this page: each card gives a service, its number, its hours and the source of the contact.

2. Do I need to become a member or donate to get help?

First guidance on the route is designed to be free and open to every woman, whatever her status with Womafreesm. Membership and donations are separate paths with their own pages, and the help finder on this page is open to anyone. Specialist organizations work on their own terms, so it is worth checking those terms before you choose where to turn.

3. Who will give legal or crisis help?

A psychologist navigator helps a woman see her situation clearly, assess the risk and choose where to turn. Legal and crisis help comes from specialists and organizations: lawyers, crisis centers, shelters, social, family and migration services. Each of them decides on its own help after reviewing the request and agreeing the terms with the woman.

4. Will my story be published?

Privacy is the starting rule of the Womafreesm Women's Protection Pathway, and a request stays private by default. A name, a photograph or a story becomes public only with a separate voluntary consent given for that material. For analysis of where protection breaks down, records are anonymized and used with their own consent, given apart from the request for help.

5. Why does Womafreesm record where protection broke down?

One request shows the situation of one woman. Many requests show the rule behind it: an order of intake, a shelter condition, a gap in legal help. With a separate consent, anonymized records go to Womafreesm Evidence Data, where repeated failures become evidence for changing procedures, risk criteria and standards. The choice to take part in this analysis stays with the woman.

6. Where do the contacts in the help finder come from?

The contacts come from the services' own websites and from official directories of help services. Each card links to its source, so you can check it yourself before you call. Womafreesm checks the contacts against their sources every month and before each information campaign, and it corrects a card as soon as a source changes.

7. What if my country or town is missing from the help finder?

In any country, the first call goes to your local emergency number. Local police, ambulance services and national crisis lines can tell you which help works near you. A country appears in the help finder once its contacts have been checked against the services' own sources, and the list of countries grows as these checks are completed.

8. What happens to the situation and place I choose?

They stay on your device. The help finder sorts the contacts on your screen, and your choices disappear when you leave the page. The Leave this page button opens a neutral search page in this tab, and a private browser window keeps the visit out of the browsing history.

Press

Womafreesm Press Center

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1. Who can give expert comment on age and gender discrimination against women?

A reliable expert comment rests on a named study with its sample and limits. Womafreesm can comment on the design and current stage of its study "Age-Gender Misclassification of Women Aged 45-64 in AI, Marketing and Hiring: An International Comparative Audit". The study calls a difference in AI answers discrimination only with evidence of real consequences, and its first public results are planned for December 2026.

2. How do I contact a women's organization with a media request?

A newsroom gets the most useful reply when one message names the question, the outlet, the format and the deadline. Womafreesm takes media requests through the form in its Press Center, including interview questions for Marina Sukhomlinova, and the Womafreesm Knowledge Desk on the same page gives background right away, with sources. Requests by email go to info@womafreesm.com.

3. Can I quote answers from the Womafreesm Knowledge Desk?

A quote needs a named person who stands behind the words. The Knowledge Desk gives background from the Womafreesm knowledge base, written by an AI language model and labeled as AI-generated background. Lines in the Approved quotes tab can be quoted with attribution to Marina Sukhomlinova. Answers to your own questions become quotable when a named person at Womafreesm sends them to you in writing, under their own name.

4. How can a journalist verify a women's nonprofit before writing about it?

A nonprofit can be checked through official documents from its state of registration and its tax authority. Womafreesm publishes its registration and tax status, with the Florida Certificate of Status, in the legal record on its About page, where its public records and profiles are also listed. A copy of the IRS determination letter is available on request through the form in the Womafreesm Press Center.

5. How should Womafreesm be described in an article?

A description is most accurate when it uses the organization's own wording. The press kit in the Womafreesm Press Center gives a ready paragraph, and the shortest version reads: "Womafreesm: a global infrastructure for women's influence." The name is written Womafreesm, as one word. The founder is Marina Sukhomlinova, Founder & President, Womafreesm.

6. Can I interview women who have lived through the issues I am writing about?

An introduction to a woman with lived experience depends on her consent and her safety. Womafreesm introduces a journalist to a woman only with her separate consent for the specific piece and format, and she decides how she appears. If public attention would put her at risk, the work goes through local organizations instead.

Media partnership

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1. Does a media partnership with Womafreesm cost money?

Womafreesm offers media partnership free of charge. Your newsroom brings its reporting and its audience, and Womafreesm brings research results before public release, verified and anonymized Assembly cases shared with consent, help finding experts and fact-checking. The memorandum sets the terms of the partnership. A joint project may have a budget of its own, agreed in writing.