We Must Teach our Sons (and Daughters) Better
What is the standing of women and girls in the world today? It's hard to know.
On the one hand, we now have more women in Congress than ever before. There are now 20 women in the Senate (although as The Stranger points out, that's a group that has been around for 200 years and yet it has taken this long). New Hampshire state government seems to be an all-woman squad at this point. Many European countries have long had female leaders.
Yet, throughout the world, rape is still a harsh and terrible tool used against women and girls. The young woman in India who died from her injuries (and I had wondered why that was until I read that a metal rod had been used and torn her internal organs apart) has now caused women in India to say enough. But will it be enough when you still have men who say "don't wear dresses and don't go out after dark?"
Now what has been happening in the U.S. Well, there's this from Congress via The Atlantic:
AWA, which has been reauthorized without fanfare since then-Senator Joe Biden spearheaded its passage in
On the one hand, we now have more women in Congress than ever before. There are now 20 women in the Senate (although as The Stranger points out, that's a group that has been around for 200 years and yet it has taken this long). New Hampshire state government seems to be an all-woman squad at this point. Many European countries have long had female leaders.
Yet, throughout the world, rape is still a harsh and terrible tool used against women and girls. The young woman in India who died from her injuries (and I had wondered why that was until I read that a metal rod had been used and torn her internal organs apart) has now caused women in India to say enough. But will it be enough when you still have men who say "don't wear dresses and don't go out after dark?"
Now what has been happening in the U.S. Well, there's this from Congress via The Atlantic:
AWA, which has been reauthorized without fanfare since then-Senator Joe Biden spearheaded its passage in