About one in five women will be raped or experience attempted rape during their college careers, and about two-thirds of undergraduate students — male and female — experience some type of sexual harassment. Because this isn’t just a “women’s issue,” the nonprofit organization Men Can Stop Rape tackles campus sexual harassment and assault in the [...]
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College Men, Where Do You Stand?
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, bystander, Georgetown University, Men Can Stop Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, Where Do You Stand? on February 2, 2012, | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Let There Be Peace (for Women) on Earth
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged 16 Days Campaign, 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign, AAUW, Coalition of Women for Peace, From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World, International Human Rights Day, Ohio State, Second Life, sexual assault on December 6, 2011, | 1 Comment »
This song, first sung on a mountaintop by a group of teenagers more than half a century ago, still rings true. If we choose, we can each play a role in promoting peace, and technology has the power to break down the physical barriers that separate women globally and to enlighten us about the conditions [...]
Why Sexualization Matters for Boys
Posted in AAUW research, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Crossing the Line, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, education, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, students on November 3, 2011, | 1 Comment »
This post is part of a new series on sexual harassment in school, launched in conjunction with the upcoming AAUW report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for more information. You may have heard the rumors running amok about a 14-year-old girl who was taped performing oral sex on a [...]
Consent Begins in the Hallways
Posted in A Women's Nation, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, student issues, The Consensual Project, The Line Campaign on October 13, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
This post is part of a new series on sexual harassment in school, launched in conjunction with the upcoming AAUW report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for more information. There’s a lot of awesome work happening around the issues of sex and consent right now. With everything from the [...]
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