My Acquaintance Rapist Finally Figured It Out
Among college students, attitudes toward sexuality can be dangerously divergent, as my own traumatic experience attests. We need another campus-rape summit to talk about this.
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On Sexual Assault, Harvard Takes Big Step Forward
Let’s hope this policy flashes a red light at any schools that might be considering enforcement of the backward Campus SaVE Act passed last year.
Sexist Taunts in Japan Hit a Fertility Nerve
The heckling of an unmarried female assemblywoman in Tokyo highlights a work-life imbalance problem that is tied to delayed motherhood.
Court Sets 2 New Rules of Engagement on Abortion
First buffer zones, then Hobby Lobby. After these back-to-back negative Court rulings, the pro-choice side needs to fight speech with speech and find a corporation to fight corporations.
Rosalie Wahl’s Push for Libraries Spurred Law Career
The first woman named to the Minnesota Supreme Court, Wahl decided in her 30s to pursue law after she grew tired of “sitting outside of doors, with the doors shut, and them [men] deciding,” says Lori Sturdevant in this excerpt from “Her Honor.”
Blue-Slip Blues Keep Female Judges Stuck at 30%
The Senate’s anti-filibuster vote in November does not guarantee that Obama will be able to appoint well-qualified women and minority men to the bench. Obstructionists are still up to their tricks and every bit of citizen involvement is needed.
In Domestic Violence, No Incident Is Too Minor
It starts with black eyes and broken fingers and moves up the ladder to the crimes that make the news. By prosecuting lower level crimes and addressing intimate partner violence before it escalates, we will save women’s lives around the world.
Deval Patrick Is No ‘Governor Equality’ for Judges
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been paying female administrative judges less than male counterparts for too long. It’s time to take a look at this invisible social problem in one of the country’s supposedly most equitable states.
Female Teens Ready for Rocket Launch Competition
Only five of the 100 national teen teams competing at Saturday’s Team America Rocketry Challenge are all-female. One contestant said that doesn’t faze her–male competitors stopped intimidating her in grade school.
Steubenville-Style Tech Puts Rapists on Gotcha
Murphy has no patience for hand wringing over the release of the Ohio rape-case video. These technological advances, she says, give a huge boost to rape prosecutors who currently put a mere 2 percent of alleged rapists in jail for even one day.
