Last week, the University of California and former UC Davis female student wrestlers Arezou Mansourian, Christine Ng, and Lauren Mancuso announced that they had reached an agreement to settle their lawsuit against the university. The plaintiffs originally filed suit in 2003, and in August 2011, the U.S. District Court for Eastern California found that the [...]
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Making Military Sexual Assault Visible
Posted in AAUW in the News, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Department of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Invisible War, Jackie Speier, Kori Cioca, Leon Panetta, military, sexual assault, Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act, STOP Act, Susan Burke on January 24, 2012, | 3 Comments »
Did you know that, according to the new documentary Invisible War, about 20 percent of women in the military are raped by coworkers, as are 1 percent of men? Did you know that the Department of Defense estimates that about 19,000 women in the military were raped in 2011? Not only is rape an epidemic [...]
Crossing the Line” Sparks Important Dialogue
Posted in AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Educational Programs, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, CNN, Crossing the Line, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, Daily Kos, Forbes, Huffington Post, Jezebel, Ms. Magazine, New York Times, Salon, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, Title IX, Washington Post on January 12, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW’s research report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School has certainly captured the attention of the media. The New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Ms. Magazine were just a few of the outlets that mentioned Crossing the Line and the dangerously normalized culture of sexual harassment in grades 7–12. AAUW [...]
Did You Miss the “Tweet-Up”?
Posted in AAUW in the News, Educational Programs, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged #T9Talk, AAUW, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, education, Homeroom, Office for Civil Rights, politics, Russlynn Ali, Secretary of Education, STEM, Title IX, Tweet-up, Washington D.C. on January 10, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday, AAUW hosted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali for a “tweet-up” (a meet-up on Twitter) to answer questions about Title IX. The online discussion was lively and informative — it drew more than 550 tweets in just three hours. Even an hour after [...]
It’s Much More than Kids Being Kids
Posted in AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged adolescence, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, gay, High School, middle school, school, Sexual Harassment, teenage behavior, teenagers, youth on November 12, 2011, | 1 Comment »
This post is part of a series focusing on sexual harassment in middle and high school, launched in conjunction with the release of AAUW’s latest research report, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, which was supported by the Mooneen Lecce Giving Circle and the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for updates. This [...]
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