Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday April 21, women will unite to Take Back The Night. Take Back The Night is an annual rally designed to highlight and help address the problems of sexual harassment that women face each day, and, more perilously, each night...
...women must not march alone. Just as whites and Blacks have united on civil rights issues, men must join women in their fight to be free of sexual harassment. Thirty-four percent of all women at Harvard have been sexually harassed. Such abuse will stop only when the community as a whole makes it clear that sexism is categorically unacceptable...
Like homelessness and racial hatred, sexual harassment is a problem for the community. Women live with this problem every day and every night. Now it is time for men to join them in their fight. The first step is to understand the problem. The second step is to bring it to people's attention in order to find a solution...
Attitudes among the Harvard community are equally apathetic, if not deliberately antagonistic, toward women's security. The final club mentality--women allowed in only for parties, as social and sexual objects, not colleagues--is as prevalent outside the clubs as in. The University's lack of enthusiasm for women--shown by the abysmal hiring record of women for top posts in the administration and tenured faculty--can only prevent the awareness of women as professional and authoritative equals...
...danger of the clubs' and the administration's discrimination lies not only in sexual arrogance but in sexual violence. According to the University Health Services, a recent study shows that one in four college women nationwide are victims of rape. Eighty-four percent of these cases are categorized as acquaintance rape, which is rape of women expecting to be treated as equals by their male peers and one of the most difficult crimes to prosecute. At Harvard a date rape victim, who has brought her case to the Administrative Board, is prohibited from finding out if a punishment has been...