Teen Voices
Girls in Cosmopolitan Tunis Take Harassment Statistics Personally
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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.
Sexual Harassment
Israeli Groups Start a Culture Project Against Rape and Harassment
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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.
Arts & Culture
French Journalists Say Harassment Part of the Job
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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.”
Teen Voices
Florida Teens Say Street Harassment is Everywhere
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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.
Crime & Law
Ellen Pao’s Trial Stood for Many Earning Far Less
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(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.
Domestic Violence
Activists Stress Urgency of Stalled Violence Bill
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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.
Crime & Law
On Sexual Assault, Harvard Takes Big Step Forward
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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.
Crime & Law
NYC Women’s Club Embraces Seasonal Workers’ Case
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Under the leadership of Taina Bien-Aime, the Women’s City Club is monitoring the sex harassment case of two seasonal workers in the New York Parks Department, signaling a new emphasis and direction for the good-governance group.
Abortion
Ireland Takes Small Step; Most Egyptians Harassed
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Ireland’s cabinet has approved a change that would permit abortions to save the woman’s life. In Egypt, the majority of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment.
Constitution
Egyptian Constitution Provides Little Protection
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A secular Egyptian woman outlines the disappointments written into the country’s new constitution, passed in late December. Women have had only one legal advance since the revolution: prosecuting sex harassment.