Google are honoring Amelia Earhart with their Google Doodle today! Happy Birthday Amelia!
We love this so much!
By: Dani Nispel, Program and Policy Intern
National Council of Women’s Organizations
NCAA president, Mark Emmert, announced this morning that Penn State Football would not face the “death penalty.” The team would not be suspended for a year, but it would face punishments including a $60 million fine. Some are saying the sanctions against Penn State are more crippling than the “death penalty”, but it may not be over yet. The NCAA has had its say, as the governing body of athletics. However, The Department of Education has been investigating since November to see if Penn State violated the Clery Act. If the University did indeed violate the Clery Act by covering up sexual harassment, it could put their federal funding on the line.
For anyone needing a safe place to go to or needing to find resources and/or support groups in their area.
(via gingerfeminist)
By: Dani Nispel, Program and Policy Intern
National Council of Women’s Organizations
What could happen on college campuses if Congress doesn’t pass the real VAWA?
When students and parents are looking at colleges and universities to consider, they will have no information about how safe that campus is. They’ll probably read about how many students have internships, the percentage of students who study abroad, and the average GPA of athletes. However, they won’t know how many sexual assaults and instances of dating violence or stalking take place on the campus each year. They won’t know what type of sexual assault or violence policies the institution has in place, and they won’t be able to know the disciplinary consequences of assaulting someone on that campus. There will be zero transparency.
By: Maggie Fridinger, Program and Policy Intern
National Council of Women’s Organizations
Every 9 seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten in the United States. One in four women are subjected to violence during their lifetime.
Perpetrators do not discriminate in their acts of violence. Women are exposed to domestic violence regardless of race, sexual orientation, income level, and age. Abusers do not differentiate among women of legal residency status and undocumented immigrants. Violence touches all women.
The latest issue of TIME, featuring our Summer Olympics special, will hit newsstands Friday. Our U.S. readers will see track and field athlete Lolo Jones, swimmer Ryan Lochte, and gymnast Gabby Douglas on the cover of TIME.
(Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME)
Go behind-the-scenes of this week’s cover shoot here on LightBox.
For the first time, the U.S. will be sending more women to the olympic games than men.
These are awesome photographs of just a few of them!
If you’re a survivor of dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking on college campuses, please consider signing this letter to Congress. It asks Congress to pass the Real VAWA that will provide real protections for college students.
You have to sign by midnight TONIGHT!
The House Judiciary Committee has held eight anti-abortion or anti-family planning votes or hearings so far this Congress. This morning, they’re scheduled to make it nine. The Committee will be considering the so-called “District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” which would ban abortion in the District of Columbia at 20 weeks.
