February 2011
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No Small Victory
by Nicole Green
Two years ago I was stuck in a job I used to love, battling the prejudices career women face when they decide to have a family. I’d worked hard to get where I was – Senior Management at a well-connected Financial Services company. I developed a reputation for expecting excellence – from my team, from my...
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WatchEmily May, Executive Director of www.iHollaback.com talks about Street Harassment on Foxnews.
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harrrasment on the job
I work with mostly men and although I am a married woman, this fact does not seem to bother any of them.
Juniors like myself started by making rude comments about my butt. Once, after a work lime, I was getting a ride home from my senoir and his wife and another worker was also getting a lift. Half-way into the drive he squeezed my breast. I was in total shock. He said he was drunk and apologized...
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Abroad
I had gotten off the metro and onto the bus…the same bus that takes me too and from campus. A male Indian student jumped on and sat next to me, chatting in an overly enthusiastic manner. I was balancing some art materials in front of me, trying to stop them from toppling as the bus swayed so the first time he brushed against my breast I thought it was just an accident …the effects of...
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MAYBE IT’S JUST ME
by Des Seebaran
He leered at her halter-top and fitted pants from the doorway. “Mi waan fi talk to yuh,” he drawled. “Well, I don’t wanna talk to you,” was her firm retort. I rolled my eyes to the heavens, wishing I were somewhere else. “Come ‘ere!” he demanded. “No!” she replied and walked out of the room. See nothing wrong...
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A visit at the gynie’s
Going to the gynacologist is always a bit uncomfortable for me still. Even though I am almost 30 years old, I remember when I was a naive 20 and a gynie examined me with my mom in the room. He then sent her out to pay the bill and had me, now alone, “examined” again.
He moved so fast that I did not know what happened till afterwards when I was recounting the incident to my mother. She is the one...
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Tire Shop
I applied at a tire shop, I enjoy working on cars, I applied under the name Neco and once I was called up for the interview the interviewer continued to look around calling my name. I told him that I am Neco at first he laughed and then looked at me more seriously and asked if I was looking for an office job because they were looking for someone to sling tires not answer phones. I told him I...
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“being flexible about gender roles can help to alleviate stress between partners...”
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Sugar Blues
So many pictures of black boys and black men
my twelve going on thirteen year old self was overwhelmed;
almost more overwhelmed by the mug shots
than by the reason I was sitting at the cop’s desk
looking through myriad pictures
trying to pick out the one
who stole my virginity.
Under pressure from the police,
I finally picked out one
who looked similar enough.
How glad I was...
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Silenced
I thought I had run away.
After spending close to two years at a company rife with old dirty bastards at every water cooler and coffee machine, I was offered another job at what I considered to be the industry’s version of “greener pastures”.
I impressed at the interview, and pretty soon I signed the contract and happily said my goodbyes as I headed off to a brighter...
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Watch
Where Is Your Line? is a campaign by The Line (based in the USA); a movement urging young people everywhere to become more comfortable setting sexual boundaries, encourage verbal consent in sexual situations, and spread the word- that consensual sex is hot sex!
WomenSpeak is all for women speaking up and standing up for themselves in their intimate and romantic relationships. Where is your...
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A Walk Down the Street / A Walk through the...
I was twelve years old and had just started secondary school. My friend and I had decided to go for a walk to get something to eat. Walking about with friends, unburdened by parents, was a new and exciting thing for me. Looking back on it now, I am appalled by the kinds of things people said to me that day… does it seem so awful because I am looking back as an adult? Men… grown...
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It's not rape but it's not right
I don’t know if this counts as discrimination but I know that I feel confused and violated.
Many years ago, there was a guy in my class at university that I really liked. He seemed to like me too. We started spending time together and from very early on he wanted a sexual relationship. I thought that it was too soon and that we should get to know each other better but he wasn’t...
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“But in my 20s I remember the sense of intimidation and fear that ran through me...”
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“verbal and nonverbal behaviors that convey insulting, hostile and degrading...”
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Harassment is punishable by law!
A person who pursues a course of conduct which amounts to harassment of another and which he knows or ought reasonably to know amounts to harassment of the other is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
The Offences Against the Person(Amemdment)(Harassment) Act (see source link, below, right)
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Abuse, molestation, sexual harassment, they haunt....
It was a morning like any other in 2005, except for the fact that on my way to work and as I approached Chacon Street, Port of Spain, absorbed in my own thoughts, a man grabbed my crotch and kept walking. I froze for several seconds, shocked and scared. There weren’t many people around and the few who were there said nothing, so I believe they saw nothing. Physically weak, I took the...
About the Founder
Simone Leid is a Trinidad and Tobago national who has worked in the field of Gender and Development and International Development for over 8 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Management from the University of the West Indies and a Masters degree in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University...
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Can't Speak Up at Work
Years ago, when I was a new employee, the first day I arrived one of the senior men in the organisation came up to me to introduce himself or rather for me to introduce myself to him. From the moment he looked at me I felt uncomfortable. Then he came over and stood really really close to me for me to introduce myself. He made a remark that i can’t remember to one of the other women in the...
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