Rwanda is one of the countries that has lived one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last decades that between April and July 1994 left more than 800,000 dead when ethnic Hutu militias and government forces attacked Tutsi Rwandans. In the article that I selected this week for my final paper, its authors -Claire Devlin … Read more
Although I had only planned to focus on gender and racial discrimination in the workplace, this article has sparked a new variable. Sexual orientation discrimination. This article examines 534 gay employees, 162 of whom were gay employees of color. Gay and lesbian employees of color face discrimination not just because of their sexual orientation but … Read more
Another article I am choosing for my research paper is Morphological shifts in Southeast Asian Prostitution: The Long Twentieth Century. This article focuses on the history of prostitution and how it has contributed to the sex tourism that is seen in today in the region. The article first discusses traditional prostitution in the area. Tagliacozzo … Read more
Substantive Blog Post #4 Phyllis Schlafly’s “Positive” Freedom: Liberty, Liberation, and the Equal Rights Amendment In order to gather enough research for my final paper, I have decided to not only consider gender inequality in the Bible, but also the perpetuation of gender inequality in American political through the conservative use of the Biblical role … Read more
I saw a video of a CNN news casterer speaking about this judge in Canada who apparently spoke out during a rape case to this woman, that she should’ve just “kept your knees together.” The judge asked this 19 year old girl who was raped at a party on the bathroom sink, why she didn’t … Read more
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As we talked about in class today, we focus a lot on society’s negative effects on women, but we seldom consider how men can be victims, too. Dr. Kimuna, in the Department of Sociology, is conducting research on men’s experiences of intimate partner violence in Kenya. I was curious about this issue in the U.S … Read more
https://videos.posttv.com/washpost-production/The_Washington_Post/20161021/580a0a32e4b0229dd7a2257e/580e7f13e4b037a240c7d474_1439412153584-wn5qra_t_1477345065079_640_360_600.mp4 This video from Washington Post illustrates how trough the media the role of the women has been stereotyped in different ways. In this case the reflexion is how although some productions of Hollywood or tv series recognize that women can get positions of power in politics, their characters have to face challenges that men … Read more
But not without racism rearing it’s ugly head, of course. Major Paula Stokes Dance has announced that she is running for the Pitt County Sheriff’s position, which will be left open, as our current Sheriff, Neil Elks has announced that he will not be seeking re-election. There are other candidates in the race, so … Read more
A new law was just passed in Utah to allow women to get birth control from a pharmacy instead of having to see the doctor every time they needed a prescription. The patient still needs to check in with the doctor every two years, but she will no longer have to visit the doctor every … Read more