Why Female Athletes Shouldn’t Have to Beat Men

Thea Cox The undefeated champion lost on November 14 to Holly Holm, a champion in boxing and kickboxing. This article is a little old, it came out in March, but considering the match last week I thought I would post it. This article focuses on Ronda Rousey, who was previously undefeated and has led people … Read more

Trafficking in Humans: The TIP Report

By C. White November 14, 2015 Bernat and Zhiliana (2011:452-453) further explains the creation of the Tier system. To combat sex trafficking, international countries work together in the battle because the problem often involves an international, secretive, wealthy cartel and trafficking is viewed as “modern day slavery”. Bernat and Zhiliana discusses (2011:458) how enactment of … Read more

America Will Not Tolerate Slave Traders: Counter-Trafficking Policies and US Power

By C. White November 14, 2015 The US Department of State define sex traffic victims as people who are trapped in their work after taking jobs willingly (Risley 2015:214). Risley states that actions from feminists, human rights activists, the United States (US) government, and members of different international organizations led to the enforcement of major … Read more

Sexting is blighting children’s lives, education needs to catch up

Blog post Nov 11th Today text messaging and other forms of instant messaging on smart phones has led to young teenagers sending sexual pictures to each other. These nude pictures, also known as “sexting” is accelerating young teenagers lives into sexual exploration. Not only is this dangerous in the sense that it could lead young … Read more

Gender issues emerge during New Zealand parliament session

https://news.vice.com/article/women-protesting-new-zealand-leaders-rapist-comment-kicked-out-of-parliament The New Zealand legislature recently met to discuss the fate of a group of detainees who are currently being held in the Christmas Island detention center in Australia. The detainees are waiting to be deported back to New Zealand for an array of various crimes they committed in Australia. John Key, New Zealand’s prime minister … Read more

Racing to Provide the Best Parental Leave Benefits

Posted by: Andrea Fulle Link: http://time.com/money/4098469/paid-parental-leave-google-amazon-apple-facebook/ This article caught my eye because it details all the various US based companies that have recently adopted new/ upped preexisting maternity and paternity leave policies. It decribes the current policies for high profile companies such as Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Change.org, Facebook, Google (and YouTube), Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Reddit, … Read more

Since I study immigration and women, and how they experience intimate partner violence, this short op-ed by a North Carolina doctor was very interesting. What are your thoughts? It is entitled “A Typical American Life, a Very American Death” North Carolina and Intimate Partner Violence and reflects on the fact that more than half of … Read more

Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking (final)

http://www.sciencedirect.com.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X12001453 This article written by Seo-Young Cho out of the German Institute for Economic Research has some flaws. We see that when the article starts out by stating that most victims of human trafficking are women when we know it is a pretty even split between men and women. However the article aims to find … Read more

Laws Targeting Campus Rape Culture

Miranda Guardiola This article addresses the new regulations that have taken place recently and illustrates that there is hope for significant changes to counteract campus rape culture. There have been recent changes in the federal Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (Campus SaVE) Act that officially was implemented in July 2015. This legislative is the product of … Read more