Brazil
Mass Sexual Harassment – Caught on Tape in Brazil
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“A woman’s place is wherever she wants, including a stadium.”
Beware the #MeToo Backlash—It Masks Ugly Lies About Women
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This idea relies on a pernicious stereotype – that women lie about consensual sex so often that society has to invent ways to ensure that innocent men are properly protected.
Arts & Culture
Mothers of Invention Face Technical Taliban
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For Women’s History Month, Deepa Kandaswamy points out that women invented paper, produced the pie chart and distilled perfume. But “technical Talibanism,” she says, obscures those contributions and handicaps female inventors today.
Arts & Culture
DOD Sexual Assault Policy; Judges Renominated
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(WOMENSENEWS)–CheersThe new sexual assault policy for the Department of Defense, announced on Tuesday, includes clear steps to prevent sexual assault, protect victims and increase accountability.While delivering the new policy to Congress, a Department of Defense spokesperson said that the “department is moving forward to make real changes and to make those changes stick.”In a summary of policy, the Pentagon acknowledged that previous sexual assault prevention programs varied among services in breadth and depth, and that there was a need for more consistency. Along with a specific definition of “sexual assault” (as well as “sexual harassment” and “other sex-related offenses”), the new policy provides a training program for all Department of Defense personnel for dealing with sexual assault.In addition, the policy includes revised guidelines for how to investigate complaints, how to treat and care for victims and how to report sexual assaults. A notable feature of the revised policy is its emphasis on increased victim support. The Pentagon has told the press that it plans to designate a sexual assault response coordinator at every U.S. military installation in the world, including all military branches, service academies and other academic institutions.The policy was developed based on recommendations from the department’s Joint Task Force on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault. These changes come in the aftermath of a series of sexual assault reports in the Iraq war, the Air Force Academy and elsewhere in the military.Other reasons to cheer:–A simple urine test performed during pregnancy could someday predict which women are likely to develop dangerously high blood pressure called pre-eclampsia, says a study in Tuesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.Pre-eclampsia is a condition that kills hundreds of mothers-to-be each year in the United States and leads to 15 percent of all premature births. In the study, researchers found urine samples from women who eventually developed pre-eclampsia had extremely low levels of a protein called placental growth factor, which nurtures blood vessels that support the mother and fetus.