New Legislation Aims to Stop Harassment Before It Starts
Posted by: Lauren Khouri, FellowOn Monday, California Congresswoman Jackie Speier introduced a bill that would require all members of the U.S House of Representatives to complete mandatory sexual...
View ArticleGetting Down to Basics: Concrete Recommendations on Improving Sexual Assault...
Posted by: Beccah Golubock Watson, FellowLast week, a bipartisan group of Senators led by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand made three key recommendations for reducing sexual assault on college campuses. In...
View ArticleFrom the Dorm Room to the White House, Sexual Assault Survivors Are Not Alone
Posted by: Katie Hegarty, Online Outreach AssistantContent warning: This piece discusses sexual assault. When I graduated college last May, it felt ridiculously important to me that I establish...
View ArticleDOJ Reaches Agreement with Missoula on Improving Handling of Sexual Assault...
Posted by: Samantha Hall, InternAnother step has been taken towards making college campuses and their surrounding areas safer for students. You did not misread that— we are making progress in the...
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Serving Up the Truth About Sexual Harassment, With a Side of Commonsense
Posted by: Liz Watson, Senior Counsel and Director of Workplace Justice for WomenWritten by Nikki Lewis, Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice, and Liz Watson, Senior Counsel and Director of...
View ArticleTitle IX Stands With Jada, Too
Posted by: Lauren Khouri, Fellow“There’s no point in hiding. Everybody has already seen my face and my body, but that’s not what I am and who I am.”These are the words of courageous 16-year-old Jada....
View ArticleHarmful Campus Sexual Harassment and Assault—Not a Free Speech Problem
Posted by: Amelia Bell, Intern Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ briefing entitled “Enforcement of Sexual Harassment Policy at Educational Institutions...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Questions to Ask About Your Title IX Rights on a College Visit
Posted by: Michaela Olson, Intern‘Tis the season for college visiting. As campuses across America are flooded with high school students this summer, there are some hard-hitting, crucial questions to...
View ArticleAlumni of George Washington University: Our Former President Thinks Women Are...
Posted by: Megan Tackney, Outreach Manager for Health and Reproductive Rights“One of the groups that have to be trained not to drink in excess are women. They need to be in a position to punch the...
View ArticleSexual Assault and Title IX: Not Just a Concern for Colleges
Posted by: Emily Werth, Fellow Posted by: Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel and Director of Equal Opportunities in AthleticsFrom congressional and White House recommendations on reducing campus sexual...
View ArticleIf Shonda Rhimes Says It’s Important, It’s Important
Posted by: Gail Zuagar, Outreach AssociateABC’s Scandal is at the top of my DVR list—literally. This means that, come Thursdays at (its new time) 9 pm, nothing in this world (with the exception of a...
View ArticleA Second Look Through the Rear Window
Posted by: Alicia Gurrieri, Program AssistantI'm a sucker for old movies. It's one of the only ways I can get that satisfying sense of cultural enrichment while sitting on a couch eating tasty treats....
View ArticleListen Up
Posted by: Alicia Gurrieri, Program AssistantIn a recent CNN interview, Don Lemon responds to Joan Tarshis' account of rape by simplifying her trauma into a situation that could have been easily...
View ArticleIt Doesn't Get Any Clearer Than This
Posted by: Lara S. Kaufmann, Senior Counsel & Director of Education Policy for At-Risk StudentsI am so tired of hearing that there is no campus sexual assault problem, that it’s just a myth...
View ArticleWhy Women Should Care About the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015
Posted by: Holly Hemphill, Senior Counsel Posted by: Karen Davenport, Director of Health PolicyCongress recently recessed for the rest of the year. One of the bills it passed was the National Defense...
View ArticleResolution of Title IX Complaint Against Harvard Law School Will Help Schools...
Posted by: Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel and Director of Equal Opportunities in AthleticsAs 2014 drew to a close, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued its resolution of a...
View ArticleMaryland's Fair Employment Preservation Act Would Restore Strong Protections...
Posted by: Adaku Onyeka-Crawford, Fellow Posted by: Liz Watson, Senior Counsel and Director of Workplace Justice for WomenSexual harassment remains a pervasive problem in the American workplace, with...
View Article"Make Them Whole:" The Fight to End Sexual Assault on Campus
Posted by: Mia Jacobs, Program AssistantI'll never forget the first time a friend in college told me she had been sexually assaulted. The story was so familiar: at a fraternity party, she was pulled...
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The Mad Men Era is Over — But Sexual Harassment Isn’t
Posted by: Katie Hegarty, Online Outreach AssistantLast night’s return of Mad Men found Joan and Peggy in a skin-crawlingly sexist shareholder meeting. Three male partners sat across the table from...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Campus Assault, Safety is Not Only in the Eye of the Bystander
Posted by: Katie Hegarty, Online Outreach AssociateThere’s no way around this — it’s a fact that sexual assault is happening on college campuses across the country. Lawmakers, administrators, and...
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HALT Campus Sexual Violence Act Introduced This Morning
Posted by: Lara S. Kaufmann, Senior Counsel & Director of Education Policy for At-Risk StudentsThis morning I had the privilege of participating in a press conference held by Congresswoman Jackie...
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WNBA Should Address Discrimination Issues
Posted by: Rebecca Ojserkis, Legal InternLast week marked the start of an exciting summer filled with women’s sports. While the FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Canada, the WNBA’s 2015 season...
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Vance v. BSU Anniversary: A Case of the Terrible Twos
Posted by: Adaku Onyeka-Crawford, FellowThere’s more than corn in Indiana. There’s also Ball State University, home of my alma mater high school and defendant-appellee in the terrible Supreme Court...
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The Culture of College Parties
Posted by: Haley Eazor, InternIt’s Saturday night, and one of my friends comes running up to me at a college party. She tells me she is going home with someone. I ask the same question I always do:...
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Comments and "Compliments:" The Many Shades of Sexual Harassment
Posted by: Samantha Kovacs, InternThe internet — both my battleground and my home, as a millennial feminist — has given new meaning to the term public space. When I think public space, I think of...
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