http://womanstats.org/blog.htm WomanStats News and Blog en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:24:21 -0700 http://womanstats.wordpress.com Something inside of me snapped when I was reading about the South African girl. My barricade of apathy that I had been hiding behind started to crumble. This story wasn’t necessarily more tragic than any of the other stories I had been coding, but my façade had worn too thin. And thus I began to move out of the second phase and into the final stage of a WomanStats coder. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:24:21 -0700 RSSPECT-002163647 https://womanstats.wordpress.com/ We have several new blogposts on our WomanStats Blog since January, when we last updated our RSS. We have a post on the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and how this will affect women. We have a post on how the physical space of refugee camps is not sage for women. We have a post on how America is falling short in its ideals by tolerating violence against women. And our newest post is one about the situation of women in China. Enjoy! Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:36:07 -0700 RSSPECT-002158164 https://womanstats.wordpress.com/ The death penalty for these 5 perpetrators, or for all convicted rapists, alone will not make India’s women safer from sexual assault. That will require much larger reforms which are difficult to achieve. Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:35:34 -0800 RSSPECT-002133721 http://womanstats.wordpress.com I had assumed that women in Saudi Arabia would be relatively safe since there are such strict laws regarding the protection of a woman’s virtue. I realized I assumed incorrectly when I was studying a WomanStats map that displayed the rape scale of each country in the world. On a scale from one to five, Saudi Arabia had a ranking of a four. Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:56:00 -0800 RSSPECT-002131094 http://womanstats.wordpress.com/ If there are some tasks that men perform in the military that women can’t, then are there some things women can do for military operations that men can’t? As the most powerful military operations in the world, this is probably something we can’t afford to overlook. Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:41:53 -0800 RSSPECT-002108611 http://womanstats.wordpress.com/ The real issues lie in the culture that our children our saturated in that make it difficult for males and females to be educated together. Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:35:23 -0800 RSSPECT-002105787 http://womanstats.wordpress.com/ Often, among my fellow male peers, I hear phrases such as, "To the victor goes the spoils of war." What are those spoils of war these men talk about? Are the spoils land, livestock, or resources? The answer is yes, but often forgotten is that in the past, men died on the front lines leaving women and children behind, as such, women became a part of the spoils of war. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:38:05 -0700 RSSPECT-002101898 http://womanstats.wordpress.com/ A hyper-feminism developed among women in China as a result of prolonged sexual suppression; Women wore feminine and even promiscuous clothing, make up became an essential to everyday life, sex was not longer taboo, beauty was embraced to the point of plastic surgery and women became the sexual being that they had hidden for years. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:10:35 -0700 RSSPECT-002100581 http://womanstats.wordpress.com/ Simply reminding people by your words and actions that women are humans with intrinsic value and that men are humans with the capacity for self-control can make a difference. Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:19:38 -0700 RSSPECT-002100371 http://womanstats.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/where-is-the-balance-between-precaution-and-movement For extra safety maybe we women should just stop travelling, going to the mall, grocery shopping, walking through our neighborhoods, leaving our homes. Do I sound frustrated? Because I am. We just can’t do this; we need to keep living. Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:10:42 -0700 RSSPECT-002092765 http://womanstats.org/blog.htm#winesexual The experience of studying the status of women around the world is very different from experiencing it firsthand. I can’t compare the vulnerability I felt from one minor incident compared to the horrors that so many women around the world endure. Yet, I have a deeper understanding of the women who feel powerless in the face of harassment. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:27:11 -0700 RSSPECT-002086191 http://womanstats.org/blog.htm How exactly do you go about discussing gender issues with a person who does not yet recognize the existence of these many inequalities? What is the best way to facilitate this usually drastic paradigm shift? Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:28:30 -0700 RSSPECT-002082773 http://womanstats.org/blog.htm Anne-Marie Slaughter's article "Having It All"[1] speaks to a certain segment of society: educated women, predominantly from middle to upper class families, predominantly white. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:35:26 -0700 RSSPECT-002082048 http://womanstats.org/blog.htm Women and men almost instinctively begin to take on societal roles based on gender as soon as they are able to understand the difference between boys and girls. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:34:00 -0700 RSSPECT-002082047 http://womanstats.org/blog.htm As a WomanStats coder I have read and coded data on a variety of topics, including harmful traditional practices. 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