Elizabeth Zwerling, Author at Women's eNews

Lawmakers Shift Campus Rape Conversation to High Schools

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Crime & Law ● December 7, 2015

This week federal legislators are expected to approve the Teach Safe Relationships Act, which seeks to get high school students focused on healthy relationships. The bill, which has been rolled into the overhauled No Child Left Behind, is based on the premise that sexual-assault-prevention training may be most effective before college age.

‘Sex Signals’ Turns Campus Laughter on Rape Culture

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Arts & Culture ● November 9, 2015

In this rape-bystander training, audience members become part of the sketch. When they hesitate to speak up in the auditorium, for instance, they help dramatize real-world complicity with sexual harassment or assault.

Robots Haunt the Fight for $15 Minimum Wage

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Employment ● September 10, 2015

Automation is changing the nature of work in ways that some compare to the industrial revolution. That’s causing some concern about the fate of low-paying service sectors where women dominate.

Ravages of Revenge Porn Spur Federal Crime Push

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Uncategorized ● February 24, 2015

In some parts of the country local and state law enforcers will say no crime was committed if an angry ex publicizes nude pictures of you all over the Web. The End Revenge Porn campaign is going up against First Amendment arguments in a bid to change that.

Bill Targets ‘Weapons of Mass Perfection’ Advertising

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Crime & Law ● August 19, 2014

Critics raise free-speech concerns about a bill seeking to limit Photoshopping and other alterations in ads. Supporters argue that advertising is a special form of media since it exploits anxieties with harmful public health consequences for girls and women.

Calif. Campus Rape Bill Goes Beyond ‘No Means No’

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Crime & Law ● August 4, 2014

The Student Safety: Sexual Assault, or “affirmative consent,” legislation, could reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by the end of the summer. A legislator who supports the bill says it’s time to change the mindset of “boys just getting crazy and drunk, being irresponsible.” LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)– Like other campus sexual assault survivors, Sofie Karasek said her attack freshman year by a classmate at the University of California-Berkeley left her distraught at first, wondering whether she should “make a big deal of it,” then puzzled and angry at what she felt was her university’s inadequate response after she reported the incident.

Elizabeth Zwerling

Lawmakers Shift Campus Rape Conversation to High Schools

‘Sex Signals’ Turns Campus Laughter on Rape Culture

Robots Haunt the Fight for $15 Minimum Wage

Ravages of Revenge Porn Spur Federal Crime Push

Bill Targets ‘Weapons of Mass Perfection’ Advertising

Calif. Campus Rape Bill Goes Beyond ‘No Means No’

Web Opens Window on Eating Disorders

Suit Presses for ‘Gender Symmetry’ in Shelters

California Study: Single-Sex Schools No Cure-All

Report: Aid to Families Now Capricious, Chaotic

Elizabeth Zwerling

Elizabeth Zwerling's Latest Articles