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Sexual Harassment in High School: When Saying “No” is Not Enough
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He didn’t care about my consent. He didn’t care about my feelings. To him, I wasn’t a person worthy of respect.
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He didn’t care about my consent. He didn’t care about my feelings. To him, I wasn’t a person worthy of respect.
“It’s not that my life has been exceptionally plagued with sexism. It’s that it hasn’t.”
Being one voice among many makes the fight against street harassment louder and harder to ignore, and this feeling of empowerment is contagious.
One girl didn’t want to change out of her shorts to leave her house in Tunisia when she went to buy chips. “I felt like a cultural prisoner,” she says.
Over the past few months, Israelis have watched a blur of famous, powerful men get brought down by accusations of rape and sexual harassment, which, in Israel, is a criminal offense.
Given the likelihood of being harassed by any particular male source, one journalist says she cultivates many political contacts. “If you get upset with one of your sources, you can go to the others,” she told Women’s eNews. “You need to have a big Rolodex.”
To mark International Anti-Street Harassment Week, taking place this week, teen videographer Cady Bohannon asked some other students, male and female, in her Florida high school to reflect on their own experiences.
(WOMENSENEWS)– In the case of Ellen Pao vs. her venture capital firm employer, the jury has ruled against her. Still, San Francisco was riveted by the testimony in her gender discrimination and retaliation case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. And despite the outcome, Pao exposed male bias in the venture capital sector, where a recent study found that in 2013 women made up only 6 percent of partner positions, a steep decline from 1999. Whether one believes Pao or her employer, by coming forward and telling her story of inappropriate gender-based workplace conduct, Pao spotlights the issue of persistent sex discrimination in the workplace more than 50 years after federal civil rights laws prohibited such conduct.
Critics of the international anti-violence bill argue it will impose Western values on other countries, will be costly to implement and excludes men and boys. Supporters say no, no and no.
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.