Biden: Schools must prevent sexual violence

Nick Anderson reports for The Washington Post: “The Obama administration is pushing colleges and schools to take steps to prevent sexual violence on campuses through expanded enforcement of civil rights laws.”

Silencing Sexual Harassment: American Apparel’s Same Antics with a New Twist

American Apparel’s CEO and President, Dov Charney, has been accused of sexual harassment. Again. Charney, who is no stranger to allegations of sexual harassment, has been implicated in the past by at least four of his former female employees, who among other things accused him of using sexually explicit language in the workplace and exposing himself to them.

Report says too many whites, men leading military

Pauline Jelinek reports for the Associated Press (via The Washington Post): “The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congr…

On International Women’s Day, NOW Calls for End to the “War on Women”

Women have made incredible strides in the 100 years since the first International Women’s Day, but the challenges ahead of us are extraordinary. The individual atrocities and indignities committed against women every day will not stop until the larger war against women is ended and full equality is guaranteed.

The Disposable Woman

Anna Holmes writes in The New York Times: “CBS executives, not to mention the millions of viewers of his ‘family’ sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men,’ have consistently turned a blind eye toward [Charlie] Sheen’s history of abusing women.”