Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Sexual Harassment'
The Paralyzing Rage Of Sexual Harassment
by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972, Israel - It’s simple sexual harassment – not a uniquely Israeli problem. One of the top television news personalities in the country, Emmanuel Rosen, has been accused by a large number of women of harassment over...
Cyberbullying’s Roots are Offline, Not on a Computer Screen
by Alyssa Wiseman and Samantha Levy, The Globe and Mail, Canada - It’s been a horrible few months, with the senseless deaths of teens Amanda Todd and, more recently, of Rehtaeh Parsons. The devastating deaths of these young women, both...
Everyday Sexism Creator Laura Bates on Helping Women Speak Out
by Anna Klassen, The Daily Beast, USA - As Hillary Clinton campaigned for the Democratic nomination in 2008, a group of men could be heard in the audience shouting, “Iron my shirt!” Rush Limbaugh asked his listeners of Clinton’s possible...
Liberian Women Battle Against 'Sex for Grades' at Universities
by Liz Ford, The Guardian, UK - Female university students are mobilising to change a culture where academic success is often dependent on sexual favours. A 2011 survey conducted by ActionAid in three Liberian universities found that about 85% of...
The Mirror
by Anita Sarkeesian, TEDx, USA - Anita Sarkeesian talks about online misogyny in the video game community, and her experience with harassment because of her work....
Video Game Creators Introduce Lifetime Ban for Sexism
by Aja Romano, Daily Dot, USA - In an interview with Gamespot, two of the most prominent women in the industry revealed that next week’s long-awaited release of Halo 4 would not be for everyone: sexists will not be welcome...
Fighting Egypt's Sexual Harassment Epidemic, One Step at a Time
by Dallia Moniem, Africa Review, Kenya - It has already been labelled as an "epidemic" by rights groups, but it seems in post-revolution Egypt sexual harassment has become worse rather than better....
Talk about Sexual Harassment
by Beate Sletvold Øistad, Kilden, Norway - Sexual harassment in the workplace can get worse if nobody asks about it, according to one researcher. Her view is supported by Swedish educational institutions. Uppsala University has trained more than 3,000 employees...
Women, Harassment, and Construction Sites
by Patricia Valoy, Womanisms, USA - The United States Department of Labor Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health reported in 1999 that 88% of women construction workers surveyed had experienced sexual harassment at work....
Southern Africa: "Sexually Transmitted Marks" - Who Is to Blame?
by Sheena Magenya, Gender Links, South Africa - The latest "trend" from institutions of higher learning is that students and lecturers are exchanging a lot more than knowledge and information. It is ‘alleged' by some students that lecturers are soliciting...
Machismo Is the Problem, Not the Solution
by Kavita Krishnan, Tehelka, India - A number of campaigns against sexual harassment endorse the stereotypes they set out to debunk....
"You Should Have Your Tongue Ripped Out": The Reality of Sexist Abuse Online
by Helen Lewis-Hasteley, New Statesmen, UK - Female bloggers speak out about misogynist comments, rape threats and death threats....
The Limits of Consent
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - Pakistanis, like the rest of the baffled world, may be split in their appraisal of the Strauss-Kahn debacle. Powerful men may find solace in the fact that in Pakistan, a poor woman would never...
The Maid and Other Women Like Her: A Filipina Immigrant Perspective
by Cristina DC Pastor, Feet in 2 Worlds, USA - In Asia sexual harassment is difficult to prosecute because of the cultural taboo that seems to suggest it is not a crime but something men are entitled to. But in...
Badvertising: The Iconography of French Ads
by Elena Rossini, The Illusionist, France - Paris is a city saturated with images of women in ads who consistently come across as sexual objects. And men, in the street, treat real women as such, aggressively pursuing them and showing...
Mideast Women Log On, Speak Out
by Mona Eltahawy, Toronto Star, Canada - HarassMap not only offers women a way to take action — send a text message, write a tweet — in the face of a situation of paralyzing violation, it replies with information about...
Sexual Double Standards
by Sanitsuda Ekachai, Bangkok Post, Thailand - According to the Friends of Women Foundation, most of their sexual harassment complaints involve those big guys in uniform and in parliament....
The Reality of Egypt, a View from the Opposite Sex
by Sanna Negus, Daily Star, Lebanon - Harassment is a nuisance and sometimes a danger to all women in Cairo, and I am constantly impressed with the Egyptian women working to put an end to it....
Issues Beyond Harassment
by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - It would be a mistake to think that sexual harassment is the only workplace obstacle that women face. The fact is, Pakistani women are fighting battles on many fronts, and separate initiatives to increase...
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