Sexual Harassment

Jay Asher’s novel, 13 Reasons Why deals with the heavy topic of teen suicide and in some parts sexual harassment. It is a novel that carries an important message throughout. This key message being, “You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.” The novel demonstrated how even the smallest of things can cause such negative impacts on other people’s lives. An example of this was when a classmate of Hannah Baker, wrote a ‘best and worst; list, the student that created the list meant…

transition between high school and college is immense, and now that college sexual assaults are growing at an alarming rate, the changeover is even more distressing. College theoretically is a place to explore passions, and interests in a safe learning environment, but now it has become a landscape filled with fear of sexual assault. According to U.S department of justice one in five college attending women will be victims of campus sexual assault. Although the statistics are stark and…

being sexually assaulted. Many often wonder why are the incidents going unreported. Others are wondering why the college or university campuses the prime location for such horrid acts and are colleges doing enough to prevent sexual harassment? At some schools the rate of sexual assault is as high as 1 to 2 and 80% of incidents are going unreported (O'Connor…

or particularly grizzly case hits the headlines - the Oscar Pistorius trial, the Delhi gang rape, the beheading of a woman in a north London garden. But for the millions of women (one in three of us in fact) who face beatings, rape, sexual assault, stalking, harassment and emotional abuse, violence is largely unreported or ignored. Violence against women isn't confined to one country, culture or way of life. It is a global system through which men exert power and control over women. Violence or…

designed to take donations from the public in order to create events in the community where homosexuals can gather together in support of their sexual orientation. (Fierté, 2014). In continuation, another social policy issue that LGTB may face is bullying. At any age an individual can be bullied and even though there are consequences such as assault and harassment…

million shades.” Her words ring no more true than when examining a recent standoff between Gordon College and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) concerning the role of religious freedom and the acceptability of harassment targeted at sexual orientation minorities. Gordon College seeks to maintain a religious policy which bars sexually intercourse outside of marriage, and consequently dating among LGBT students. The NEASC, who provides Gordon College it’s accreditation,…

The unequal treatment in health care, the political system, and religious institutions of LGBT, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered people, is still prevalent in the United States and needs to be remediated. This is a social problem for several reasons, including the condition not only exists but is widely known, it produces harm, it has social causes and can be remediated. First, the unequal treatment of the LGBT community is widely known. The Gay Rights Movement…

forces. Sexual assault and sexual harassment have been happening in every service, at all levels, in a different kind of units, and affect both women and men. Department of Defense (DOD) defines it as “intentional contact, characterized by the use of force, threats, intimidation, abuse of authority, or when the victim does not or cannot consent. The term includes a broad category of sexual offenses consisting of the following specific UCMJ offenses: rape, sexual assault, aggravated sexual…

Although many people in the United States believe that sexual assault is not a major problem within our social atmosphere, the reality is that sexual assault is a serious social and public health issue today. Furthermore, sexual victimization is commonly associated with a wide range of short and long-term physiological consequences. According to national surveys, one in six women will experience attempted or completed rape at some time throughout their life. Despite the resources available to…

One stated that one stereotype she finds offensive is that “That women marines are crazy, promiscuous, and quick to call rape or sexual harassment.” One female Marine responded by stating that one stereotype she finds offensive is “That we are walking mattresses, granted some women hurt our reputation. Not all women in the Marine Corps are like that. I have to prove myself every new assignment…