http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34542619 Parents as well as five other World of Life Church members physically beat two children in order for the children to confess their sins. The result was the death of one of their sons, while the other son is hospitalized. The focus of the case is on the parents, yet this article mainly focuses … Read more
By C. White on October 15, 2015 Fifty-nine African American women were participants in an intervention and counselling involving domestic violence and depression. At first, the participants avoided discussions and acceptance of interventions, mental health counseling, anti-depressant medications (p. 296) but after the study, 90% of them (p. 297) stated that the 6 month intervention … Read more
Thomas Hennessey http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/15/448954732/jennifer-lawrence-hits-a-nerve-with-essay-on-hollywoods-gender-pay-gap According to an article released by NPR states that Jennifer Lawrence is facing both praise and criticism after making comment about the gender wage gap. Jennifer Lawrence recently commented on the fact that she received significantly less pay compared to her male co-stars on the set of American Hustle, she said that … Read more
Domestic Violence and Abuse Article review and summary by C. White on October 14, 2015 Domestic violence and abuse is not discriminatory because anybody may become afflicted by psychological or physical assaults. So this includes all races, ages, gender, income levels, and ethnicities. Psychological abuse is more likely to be excused or denied than physical … Read more
Link: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/files-sexual-harassment-suit-article-1.1374386 This article caught my attention because so few stories like this actually exist. by this I mean that more often than not, women fail to report sexual harassment in the workplace. In this particular case, a female police officer, Jazmina Inserillo, reported her lieutenant for sexual harassment after several inappropriate gestures and comments, … Read more
http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/work/rphil.html Through these two weeks, reading Section2 and Section3,it seems Marxist Feminist Theory is an unavoidable topic. in the heady days of the Women’s Liberation Movement, to identify four main currents within feminist thought; Liberal (concerned with attaining economic and political equality within the context of capitalism); Radical (focused on men and patriarchy as the … Read more
Thea Cox Billie Jean King, was recently invited to engage in a Ted Talk on how she paved the way for women in sports. Billie Jean King the tennis icon who famously beat Bobby Riggs in the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, was watched by nearly 90 million people worldwide. Billie Jean King … Read more
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/29/europe/hm-hijab-model/index.html Modeling the veil is the latest advertisement by retailer H&M to market their clothes to a wider audience. Only this time, they had Mariah Idrissi don the veil as a fashion statement and perhaps appealing to the younger generation since Idrissi herself is 23 years of age. The retailer was respectful and sensitive towards … Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/28/the-open-secret-of-abused-hmong-child-brides-goes-public-in-minnesota-law-suit/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_3_na This article is about child brides ie human trafficking of child brides from Laos. In this case, a woman has chosen to speak out and is suing her perpetrator/abuser. There is apparently a population of Hmong people in St. Paul Minnesota and it is a common occurrence where young girls in Laos are lured … Read more
Link (URL link is not working): http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/04/04/mets-slugger-daniel-murphy-and-why-critics-cry-foul-over-paternity-leave/ Although this is not exactly “recent” news, I wanted to share this article because I feel it raises some incredibly important issues about how we conceptualize paternity leave in the United States. While I agree that more attention is being drawn to the issue of unpaid and paid … Read more