A man remains a man no matter how poor his conduct. A woman, even if she were to deviate for one instance, from the role given to her by men, is branded a whore. She is viewed with lust and contempt. Society closes on her doors it leaves ajar for a man stained by the same ink. If both are equal, why are our barbs reserved for the woman?
—Saadat Hasan Manto
SEXISM, MISOGYNY, HARASSMENT, PATRIARCHY, GENERAL ICKINESS
- Peter Dutton has accused women of making false rape and abortion claims to get to Australia
- Hundreds protest across Japan over acquittals of men in sex crimes
- The Dalai Lama wants a woman to succeed him only if she is hot
- Judge says that a teenage boy’s sexual assault of a girl is not real rape, despite the boy sending a recording to friends with the caption “When your first time having sex is rape”
- Girls are better at reading than boys. That could be contributing to the gender gap in math jobs, study finds
- Some Chinese companies are making women promise not to get pregnant when they take new jobs
- Teenage rape victim in El Salvador handed 30-year prison sentence over stillbirth to face retrial for murder
- UK to deport aspiring astrophysicist, 23, to Pakistan where she faces death or forced marriage to cousin
- Only two female world leaders on stage at Osaka, Japan, G20 event aimed at empowering women
- Accused Ottawa rapist acquitted in two cases, woman’s testimony deemed ‘not reliable’ after ‘combative answers’ in court
PORNOGRAPHY
- Prison for Wellington teacher who filmed 90 women in bathroom
- Boy, 12, allegedly raped 4-year-old girl in Malaysia after watching porn videos
- Man jailed for secretly filming teenage girl in shower got the idea from watching porn
- Twenty-two women are suing the porn production company Girls Do Porn for fraud, coercion, and misrepresentation
- Deepnude creator pulls app that uses AI to transform photos of women into nudes
- Study reveals a rise in women reporting fear and unexpected choking during sex
PROSTITUTION, TRAFFICKING & EXPLOITATION
- New bill proposes to legalize buying sex in New York
- Ex-London lawyer who led global work with street kids convicted of sexual abuse and trafficking
- UK Home Office to rewrite guidelines for Nigerian women trafficked to the UK for claiming that victims could return to Nigeria “wealthy from prostitution” and “held in high regard.”
- Germany’s ‘brothel king’ begins five year sentence for trafficking
MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
- Pakistan to open more than 1,000 new courts to fight violence against women
- Women are continuing to bear the burden of managing the behaviour of violent men, at the risk of experiencing homelessness
- Conflict drives global rise in sexual violence against women
- In Germany, five boys aged between 12 and 14 raped an 18-year-old woman with “extreme violence.”
- Domestic abuse bill: Coercive control to become offence in Northern Ireland
NEW IN THE WAAC LIBRARY
Please contact Megan to borrow a book from the WAAC Library.
- Explorations in feminist ethics: theory and practice, Eve Browning Cole and Susan Coultrap-McQuin (eds) (1992)
- Gender at Work, Ann Game and Rosemary Pringle (1983)
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