See this article about current US aid for women’s health care internationally. Due to the Helms amendment (for late NC senator Jesse Helms), any service that receives aid from the US government cannot provide abortion services. The article describes how this policy may unintentionally contribute to unsafe back-alley abortions by rape victims, including those girls … Read more
44JLEduc345 This article seeks to explain the relationship that college campuses have with their students. He highlights that colleges have a responsibility to protect their students, but when a sexual assault happens, this very rarely occurs as courts are reluctant to fault the University. Therefore, the author argues, the victim have a hard time recovering, … Read more
Reviewed by C. White on December 3, 2015 Gaier states that women, children, and men are victims of sex trafficking in North Carolina because this state has the type of desirable, major highways that sex traffickers (pimps) consider convenient to them. To prevent discovery of their illegal business, they and their victims travel often. Reference … Read more
Suran.TitleIX.SocialMedia Miranda Guardiola First and foremost, this article evaluates the evolution of Title IX in regards to how it is applied to college campus sexual harassment and sexual assault. Statistics revolving around sexual assault on college campuses differ greatly depending on how sexual assault is defined, but the product remains the same : sexual assault … Read more
Posted by: Andrea Fulle Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/11/30/credit-suisse-is-raising-the-stakes-in-wall-streets-parental-leave-arms-race/ This article caught my attention because unlike most parental leave news stories, it’s from a business based source. Wall Street, not something typically associated with equality or fairness, is currently engaging in the same sort of parental leave arms race that is going on more publicly in among major … Read more
Mom’s letter to teen who taught her daughter how to skateboard is all kinds of awesome In an open letter on Twitter the mother of a 6 years-old girl thanks the teenage boy who took time to help her daughter skate (Hagerman, 2015). In the article the mother explains how it took her time to … Read more
One Group of People Is Acquiring HIV in Record Numbers, But We Don’t Talk About Them Findings from the World Health Organization indicate that transgendered women are 49 times more likely than the general population to contract HIV, making transgendered women the highest at risk population for contracting HIV (Lang 2015). The issue is complex … Read more
http://www.sciencedirect.com.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/science/article/pii/S0020729206001901?np=y Throughout my blog posts I have mainly tried to stick with articles where the main point of the article is about males and boys are being trafficked. However this article is a bit different. The main point of this article is about women and children and the different types of trafficking that they fall … Read more
Nov 30th Blog post naturally this article knows that men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus, however the old saying that refers to men and women brains of operating differently has had new evidence against it. After a study of 1400 men and women, they have found absolutely no difference in brain functions … Read more
http://www.jstor.org.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/stable/pdf/23715413.pdf?acceptTC=true This article gives the details of abusive relationships between men and male sex workers. Like many other articles on masculinity have pointed out, there are reasons why males act out in the way that they do. The article starts out with pointing out that we live in a patriarchal society. Because we do being … Read more