by Lee Rossi | May 26, 2021 | Anti-Trafficking Organizations
A message from ECPAT USA: ECPAT-USA recognizes May as National Foster Care Month There are many experiences and circumstances that make a child more vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. During National Foster Care Month, ECPAT-USA wants to recognize the...
by Lee Rossi | May 22, 2021 | Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Article by ROBIN ABCARIAN COLUMNIST MAY 16, 2021 3:04 AM PT Who would have thought, in the year 2021, that a man who rapes his wife in California is guilty of a lesser crime than a man who rapes someone to whom he’s not married? Who would have thought that a man...
by Lee Rossi | May 8, 2021 | Gender Inequality, Legislative News of Relevance
A message from EME: On March 5, 2021, Attorney Wendy Murphy argued, before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, that the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) was ratified by 38 states in January, 2020, but the U.S. Archivist refused to publish it as the...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 25, 2021 | Reflections, Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Written and Directed by Emerald Fennel Focus Features By HTP Editorial It takes a village to commit sexual assault. The perpetrator relies on a host of willing collaborators. He counts on a certain amount of apathy, of disavowal, of active passivity, of convenient...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 19, 2021 | Gender Inequality
By Allison Frost (OPB) Feb. 19, 2021 7:52 a.m. CLICK HERE TO WATCH BROADCAST Portland biomedical engineer Arlyne Simon has been interested in science and invention ever since she was a small child. Later, she realized women are vastly underrepresented in professional...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 15, 2021 | Sexual Consent, Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Article by Lisa Norgren November 21, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges “A grown man looms behind my three-year-old daughter. Occasionally he will poke or tickle her and she responds by shrinking. Smaller and smaller with each unwanted advance. I imagine her...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 15, 2021 | Gender Inequality
Published Mon, Apr 12 2021 10:54 AM EDT Megan Leonhardt@MEGAN_LEONHARDT MoMo Productions | DigitalVision | Getty Images Since last February, over 2.3 million women have dropped out of the workforce, compared to just 1.8 million men who left the labor force...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 7, 2021 | Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
Opinion by Alexandra Petri Columnist April 5, 2021 at 10:17 a.m. PDT There are several details of the Matt Gaetz story that keep sticking in my head, but the one that sticks in it most is the report that the Florida Republican used to wander around and show his...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 7, 2021 | Sexual Harassment / Assault / Abuse / Trauma & PTSD
By Akindare Okunola MARCH 31, 2021 “The most pervasive yet least visible human rights violation in the world.” — UNICEF Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious historical and global problem that has been described by the United Nations Children Emergency Fund...
by Lee Rossi | Apr 2, 2021 | Gender Inequality, Sexual Consent
Art Article by Julia Fiore Oct 1, 2018 4:35pm The fundamentals of ballet haven’t changed all that much since its invention in 15th-century Italy. Yet the popular image of this deeply traditional medium has been largely defined by the talents of one thoroughly...
