...cases of sexual harassment each year in the United States. At this point, Jaffe explains that we “got to the moment when sexual harassment stories are big news” because “the structures of the legal system and the workplace did not change. Instead, tens of thousands of women said yes, me too” (81). Due to the failure of the justice system, the main way in which people can warm other about their perpetrator is to speak out on mainly social media. This tactic is incredibly dangerous as “perpetrators” can sometimes be falsely accused therefore actual laws need to be put into place and meet the needs of the “Metoo” victims. Unfortunately, whether these tactics will translate into actual legislation is unclear, if they don’t then the goal of the “Metoo” movement will not truly succeed. However, when you look at the history of the women’s suffrage movement and consider that first speaking out was how they later on gained the right to vote, it is entirely possible that speaking about sexual harassment cases will in fact translate into legislation and meet the goal of the “MeToo”...
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...Maryland With Editorial Assistance From: Denise Davis, Women’s Law Center of Maryland Funding for production and distribution of the fourth edition was provided by the Maryland Legal Assistance Network and Maryland Legal Services Corporation. Third Edition Written By: Rieyn Delony Sally L. Swann Louise Dean Williams With Editorial Assistance From: Robyn Mazur Kathleen Fantom Shemer Funding for production and distribution of the third edition was provided by the Baltimore Bar Foundation and the Marjorie Cook Foundation. Second Edition Written By: Kathleen Fantom Shemer With Editorial Assistance From: Jane Murphy Carol Polowy Emily Rody Ann Sjoerdsma Funding for the production and distribution of the second edition was provided by the Maryland State Bar Association and the Baltimore Bar Foundation. First Edition Written By: The Women’s Law Center of Maryland, Inc. Funding for the production and distribution of the first edition was provided by the International Union UAW-Douglas Fraser, International President; E.T....
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...Shipherd, J. C., & Street, A. E. (2014, July 14). Deployment Stressors and Physical Health Among OEF/OIF Veterans: The Role of PTSD. Health Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hea0000084 Nillni, Gradus, Gutner, Luciano, Shipherd, and Street are all professors at the Boston University School of Medicine, who created a study based the role of PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Their position was that exposure to traumatic stress and combat stress were directly associated with an increase in physical health symptoms. The participants of the study included 2,332 OIF Veterans with 1,201 of these veterans being female. The professors used a series of hierarchical linear regression models to examine the effects of deployment and PTSD symptoms on physical health symptoms. In the conclusion of all there research it was discovered that for both men and women, after accounting for PTSD symptoms, combat stress did not give any unique variance in symptoms. Another big conclusion was that harassment while deployed plays a major role in the diagnosis of PTSD in many veterans. The professors used the information gathered throughout their study to support the fact that harassment was as big of a factor in veterans with PTSD and the combat stresses or experience itself. Their conclusion that they drew is as stated, “This study extends the existing literature by demonstrating the unique influence of harassment stress on physical...
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...Egypt Is Not The Only Solution Throughout history, immigration has continued to take place in various countries and due to different socio-economic, identity as well as personal purposes. It is of great significance to identify that immigration greatly affects both the origin and host countries in terms of population, economical state as well as social development. While reaching the conclusion of whether immigration is the right choice for an Egyptian family, considering that moving to a Western country would have a large impact on all members, a number of factors are taken into consideration. When a family decides to leave its country, certain factors, usually negative, drive that decision with the support of better conditions usually offered in the hosting state. An important question is then raised, tackling whether identity and personal aspects are in fact more important than economic, financial and security factors. With the lack of security, political and economic stability in Egypt since the 25th of January revolution in 2011, the weight of importance of the identification and personal aspects that falls on the decision to be made is lighter, given that the family should concentrate on the long term security of the family. With a high unemployment indicator, increased inflation, high crime rate and sexual assaults as well as low education ratio, push factors support the decision of the average Egyptian family to immigrate in the benefit of all the members of the...
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...The Stonewall Riots, which occurred on Saturday June 28th 1969 until Tuesday July 1st 1969, marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement(Misiroglu 308). The Stonewall Riots began when the police started a raid within a New York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn on 53 Christopher Street(Bronski 209). Even though the police were able to legally raid the Stonewall Inn since the bar was serving liquor without a license, the gay community reacted with rage by throwing bottles at the police, because some of the staff consisting of three drag queens and a lesbian were arrested and forced into a “paddy wagon”, and in general because of police harassment(“The Stonewall Riots”). Late Saturday evening, even though the bar was closed down, the crowds...
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...the documentary picks up in the 1980’s. At this point, much of the “militant” style of feminism has died down. Women aren’t assembling in the streets as much, but they are making progress in other aspects of their lives. For example, in 1982 New York City allowed women to become fire fighters for the first time. Women executives became powerful and their was even a woman astronaut. One of the women in the video described it as a time where little girls could watch TV and know that they could be anything they wanted to be. The feminist movement truly did give modern women the key to the world. This decade marked a stark change for women in their careers. Women began to infiltrate both blue and white collar jobs. In 1980,...
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...Marsha P. Johnson was a transwoman who became an important face to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community in New York City. She was recognized by being herself and fearing no judgment of the harassment and ridicule of dressing and living as a woman, while having the masculine features of a man. She was an eccentric woman who was known for her exotic hats and jewelry which stood out to the public and attracted attention to her. Johnson was an activist at the forefront of key moments in history. First, she played a large role in the 1969 Stonewall Riots, when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons...
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...Harassment: The effects of “eve teasing” on development in Bangladesh The Hunger Project • 5 Union Square West • New York, NY 10003 • www.thp.org Imagine for a moment that you are an eleven year old girl in Bangladesh. After helping your mother cook and serve breakfast, you are preparing for school. You should be excited. You like learning and school provides a reprieve from the drudgery of household chores. But you are not excited. Instead, you are filled with dread. That is because every day, on the long walk from your house to school, you are surrounded and teased by a group of boys. The boys yell indecent things at you. They laugh. They push, pinch, and grab at you. Sometimes they pull at your clothes so violently that you are afraid they will be ripped right off of your body. By the time you get to school, your face is hot with humiliation and your eyes sting with the fear that you will have to go through the whole thing again on the walk home. *** The Insidious Everyday Reality Sexual harassment, often known as “eve teasing”, is a regular occurrence for the women and girls of Bangladesh. A recent study by the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers’ Association (BNWLA) showed that almost 90 percent of girls aged 10-18 have undergone the experience. The harassment can take a variety of forms and the perpetrators come from multiple walks of life; they are rich and poor, educated and uneducated; according to the BNWLA study, teenage boys, rickshaw pullers, bus drivers...
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...disabled veteran, Vietnam Era veteran, recently separated veteran, armed forces service medal veteran, or other protected veteran) or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law. PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT CLEARLY NAME (Last) (First) (Middle) DATE CURRENT ADDRESS (Street) (City) (State) (Zip Code) PHONE NUMBER Area Code ( PERMANENT ADDRESS (Street) (If different from above) ) ) (City) (State) (Zip Code) PHONE NUMBER Area Code ( ARE YOU 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER? YES NO IF NOT, STATE YOUR DATE OF BIRTH_____________________________________ TYPE OF POSITION DESIRED POSITION APPLIED FOR: SALARY EXPECTED FULL TIME PART TIME SUMMER TEMPORARY OTHER WILL YOU TRAVEL? DATE AVAILABLE TO WORK WITH ARAMARK WILL YOU RELOCATE? TO WHAT AREA? YES YES YES NO NO YES NO HAVE YOU EVER WORKED FOR ARAMARK? IF YES, WHEN AND WHERE? WHAT POSITION(S) DID YOU HOLD? HAVE YOU EVER APPLIED TO ARAMARK? IF YES, WHEN AND WHERE? WHAT POSITION(S) DID YOU APPLY FOR? NO To comply with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, if you are hired you will be required to provide documents to establish your identity and your authorization to be employed in the United States. Such documents will be required within the first three (3) business days of your first day of work, or upon your first work day if your employment period will be less than three (3) days...
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...reporting. The discrepancy in information is generally evident from one geographic region to the next. If one were to take any event of global importance such differences would be extremely evident. Take the event that occurred on May 5th, 2006. On this date, after a lengthy negotiating session, the Sudanese government and the largest of the Darfur rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), signed a hard-fought peace agreement intended to end three years of desolation and bloodshed in Darfur. By focusing on three different newspaper articles covering this event—the Wall Street Journal, The Independent, and Comtex News, representing the regions of North America, United Kingdom, and Africa respectively—one can conclude that each respective news source places greatest emphasis on the information that most concerns themselves, and infuses their region’s historic and eminent perspectives. The Wall Street Journal’s article, “The Devil in Darfur,” focused on the superior role that America and the Bush Administration played in the progress of the peace agreement over the roles nations’ such as France and Sweden played. In regards to the future outlook of the peace deal, it was reported that, “It sounds promising, and if it sticks it will be a diplomatic triumph for the Bush Administration, which has so far provided $1 billion in humanitarian aid to the deal” ("The Devil in Darfur”). This statement highlights America’s innate sense of self-importance in regards to policing international...
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...The culture of shaming the intelligent has been prominently present throughout the United States both in reality and in entertainment and, although this proclivity for bullying the “academically serious” has declined in recent years, it is still highly eminent. In the passage from “America Needs Its Nerds,” Leonid Fridman challenges this culture by first, questioning the negative connotation associated with the words nerd and geek and second, embellishing on the fact that these negative connotations are detrimental to the success of the country. Fridman’s first topic of interest is the negative connotation that the words nerd and geek carry. He begins by defining geek as “a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live...
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...of our senses is the way we view others within society. The ability to perceive someone just because of their religion, lifestyle and or color is something many people try to cover up but sometimes the reality shows. Looking over the collage made about the Muslim religion there are some perceptions that could be used in a positive but also a negative way. The positive outcome of the collage consists of: The ability to have the courage to not only get an education in the United States but decide to get your education in a Catholic College. In the article “Muslims From Abroad Are Thriving in Catholic College” This young lady could have applied and attend any university she desired to enrolled at the University of Dayton, a Roman Catholic school, and she says it suits her well (PÉREZ-PEÑA, 2012). Another positive aspect of the collage is the fact Muslims are not holding their talents back but moving forward and moving into corporate America. The ability to have Muslims on Wall Street not only diversify Wall Street but bring hope to the younger generation in an aspect of live your dreams and let no one stop...
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...not being open minded to something new, or because they are different from them. Some areas of the world are trying to pass laws allowing discrimination if premised on a religious belief, such as, “in Indonesia, which has a predominantly Muslim population, recently came to be regarded as a place in which members of the LGBT community faced persecution” (orange). Some people believe being gay is an illness and one ran tests to find out the reasoning behind it all. “Until 1973 the American Psychiatric Association concluded that being gay or lesbian meant you had a “sociopathic personality disturbance”” (orange). Not only are they looked down on in the streets, but also in their workplace and the buildings in which they live. “In twenty eight states you can be evicted from your home by your landlords and in thirty one states you can still be fired for being gay” (light pink). Dwight D. Eisenhower one banned gays from working in the federal government. Once gays were allowed back to work, “Harvey Milk, a gay rights activists, was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Milk was assassinated the following year.” (Levy, p.5). The military once purged themselves of all gays in the ranks, “the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prevented gay and lesbian service members from disclosing their sexual orientation”(orange,p.3). The Stonewall Riot of 1669 marked the start of the modern LGBT rights movement. “The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York City that was raided by...
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...Serena Manfredy Probation & Parole Research Paper: Supervision of Sex Offenders Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and legal jurisdiction. The majority of convicted sex offenders have convictions for crimes of a sexual nature. Some of the crimes which usually result in a mandatory sex-offender classification are sexual assault, statutory rape, rape, sexual harassment, prostitution, and pedophilia. Currently, in the United States there are a total of 722, 499 individuals who are registered sex offenders, some of these individuals being juveniles. However, this number does not include offenses that have not been reported. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported which can deem inaccurate numbers regarding the amount of sex offenders. Victims of sexual offenses often feel a plethora of negative feelings following the crime, including guilt, and this can account for some of the underreporting. There are subcategory designations sex offenders can fall into that classify them into levels depending on the severity of the crime. They are then registered and put under special conditions they must abide by for a fixed...
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...Discrimination and Harassment in the Work Place/Education System Sexual and racial harassment refers to the action of repeated, annoying sexual comments, gazes, threats due to race, and physical contact at the workplace and in schools. The 1964 civil rights federal act makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against employees or potential employees on the basis of religion, national origin, sex, color, or race. Now, companies and education entities around the world face the task to ensure decent working conditions for their employees and students in an environment free from discrimination and harassment. In cross-cultural companies, it's rather difficult because of the peculiarities of the mentality and the differences in cultural practices, but it is necessary to solve the problem of discrimination and harassment. Sexual and racial harassment is a common problem for both women and men; it not only leads to discrimination in labor, loss in wages, low productivity and stress, but also influences the general atmosphere of lawlessness and violence. There are many forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. Before we get into the different types of discrimination, we need to define the word discriminate, which means to make a “distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group” or class, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Discrimination around us First, let’s talk about discrimination; could you imagine...
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