See this example in the link below. We often discuss this in our gender classes — the continued reference to humans or people if they are male, and identification of their gender if they are female. Just review a few news articles and you can notice this. How does this affect us all psychologically? It … Read more
By Melinda Seeman It is estimated that somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 Cambodians are exploited as sex slaves. This translates to 1 in every 150 people in this country being involved. Cambodian, ethnic Vietnamese, Thai and Malaysian women and young girls are forced into sexual slavery under deplorable conditions. In order to develop an effective … Read more
By Jennifer O’Neill In 2009, it was estimated that 33.3 million people were living with HIV or AIDS worldwide; of those, 22.5 million can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, 1.5 million adults and children are living with HIV or AIDS. 760,000 of those affected are women aged 15 and older. With this disease … Read more
Lena Jones As George Santayana famously quoted in his book Reason and Common Sense, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These words foreshadow a sad and sickening future for women and girls of all walks of life in every corner of the globe. Mass rape in warfare has been an … Read more
As the burka ban goes into effect in France, women are resisting — only about 2,000 women in the entire country wear the full burka that the law references. Charlotte Armster’s visit to our campus to discuss the headscarf in Turkey is well-timed. She will speak with the sociology class this evening, and everyone should … Read more
–Jessica Wagoner Females are worth less then males so what do we want to do? Take them out! Although this idea is over embellished, there are many people throughout the world that believe this idea and carry out the practice of female infanticide. Female infanticide occurs all over the world today. Female infanticide is the … Read more
–Rachel Girmus In 2009, the UN Refugee Agency reported that 21.8 million worldwide are “persons of concern;” these include refugees, internally displaced persons, and stateless persons, spread over 140 countries. Of these, 80% are women and children who fled their home countries due to conflict and human rights violations. Women are disproportionately affected by every … Read more
–Leila McInnis Hundreds of thousands of women are taken from their homes every year and forced to have sex for money. Sex-trafficking is defined by the US State Department as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for sexual exploitation through the use of fraud, force, or coercion” (Strege, 2008:98). There are … Read more
–Melanie Hamilton Unequal access to education has been an important women’s rights issue in many countries around the world. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development concluded that the most important way to improve health is the education of girls and women. Increasing women’s education is also said to be a major contributor to … Read more
–Kim Fleming Telanish Shabera’s story is an all too common one. She was married at age 10 and pregnant with her first child by the time she was 12. Her labor lasted for 3 days before she was transferred to a hospital, where she delivered a stillborn baby; but that was just the beginning of … Read more