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Boy Scouts: Will You Earn One More Badge?

By Kelsey Baker ● Sexual Harassment ● May 19, 2021

The Boy Scouts is at a crossroads of preserving its future and atoning for its past.

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Sexual Harassment in High School: When Saying “No” is Not Enough

By Hannah Downing ● Teen Voices ● July 8, 2019

He didn’t care about my consent. He didn’t care about my feelings. To him, I wasn’t a person worthy of respect.

Book excerpt: 100 TIMES: A MEMOIR OF SEXISM

By Editors at Women's eNews ● Sexual Harassment ● June 16, 2019

“It’s not that my life has been exceptionally plagued with sexism. It’s that it hasn’t.”

Taking Back the Streets with Chalk

By Sophie Sandberg ● Commentary ● June 2, 2019

Being one voice among many makes the fight against street harassment louder and harder to ignore, and this feeling of empowerment is contagious.

#MeToo – A Public Health Epidemic

By Megan Glasmann ● Commentary ● April 5, 2018

Rates of sexual assault are far higher than the rates of breast cancer diagnosis or childhood poverty, indicating that sexual harassment is a significant social issue with even broader consequences.

What do a Scientist and a Journalist Have in Common? #HerToo

By Nina Dudnik & Shirley Smith ● Commentary ● November 13, 2017

“What if I just keep inching away, will he take the hint? Why am I more concerned with offending him than being offended myself?”

Girls in Cosmopolitan Tunis Take Harassment Statistics Personally

By Tharwa Boulifi ● Teen Voices ● August 2, 2016

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.

Israeli Groups Start a Culture Project Against Rape and Harassment

By Eetta Prince-Gibson ● Crime & Law ● July 11, 2016

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.

French Journalists Say Harassment Part of the Job

By Hajer Naili ● Arts & Culture ● June 8, 2015

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.”

Florida Teens Say Street Harassment is Everywhere

By Cady Bohannon, Rose Shannon & Por Alison Bowen ● Crime & Law ● April 15, 2015

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.