Gettysburg College AAUW

10/18/2016

09/28/2016

09/26/2016

09/21/2016

09/13/2016

“I thought it was reasonable for him to pe*****te you for a few more minutes if he was going to finish,” said Dean Daniel J. Fabian, Associate Dean of Richmond College.

How are we supposed to feel safe on our campuses when administrators won't fight for our safety?

http://www.hercampus.com/news/student-published-receipts-her-entire-sexual-assault-case-after-university-richmond-said-she-1

09/11/2016

"We live in the same neighbourhood since about 40 years now-- it's a small slum area just down the road. Life has actually put us through some pretty difficult experiences around the same time. Where we come from, the men think it's normal to drink alcohol every night and on many occasions, through the day. Desi alcohol is available cheap and at every other joint-- so our men would drink together and be happy with the little income they earned because it got us two square meals and a roof over our head.
It was us women who were concerned about the bigger costs -- sending our children to school, buying their books and having atleast a small tubelight at home under which they could study. We realized that everyday while we were doing our chores, we would worry and complain about this same issue day in and day out. We tried talking to our husbands about doing something but so many times we would not get a reply and when we did it would be 'we'll see what to do'. Finally, we decided that we would have to do something ourselves -- we all set out to find jobs any job that required manual labour. They both got jobs as domestic help, and I got a job as a cleaner at a nearby school.
With time, we realized that we were happier outside the house rather than listening to our husbands slur and abuse us at home. Strangely enough, all three of our husbands passed away or left us around the same time -- two of our husbands passed away in a car accident and her husband left her for another woman. But instead of feeling sad, we felt liberated in a way -- no one likes being woken up late at night by a drunk man and more than anything our children no longer had to feel scared of beatings or having no school to go to.
We have full time jobs now and at around 6 every evening, we meet here, enjoy some fresh air, chat about our days and wait for the chaat wala to come. Some may look at our lives as sad or tragic, but truth is we're happy because we can do what we like with the money we earn and because we're finally able to live for ourselves."

09/08/2016

“I was taking a law school admissions test in a big classroom at Harvard. My friend and I were some of the only women in the room. I was feeling nervous. I was a senior in college. I wasn’t sure how well I’d do. And while we’re waiting for the exam to start, a group of men began to yell things like: ‘You don’t need to be here.’ And ‘There’s plenty else you can do.’ It turned into a real ‘pile on.’ One of them even said: ‘If you take my spot, I’ll get drafted, and I’ll go to Vietnam, and I'll die.’ And they weren’t kidding around. It was intense. It got very personal. But I couldn’t respond. I couldn’t afford to get distracted because I didn’t want to mess up the test. So I just kept looking down, hoping that the proctor would walk in the room. I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional. But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that’s a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you need to keep steady, but at the same time you don’t want to seem ‘walled off.’ And sometimes I think I come across more in the ‘walled off’ arena. And if I create that perception, then I take responsibility. I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional. And neither do my friends. And neither does my family. But if that sometimes is the perception I create, then I can’t blame people for thinking that.”

08/25/2016

Using Gilmore Girls to explain consent-

08/20/2016

Double standards, much?!

h/t CAFE

08/17/2016

This Gettysburgian is doing great work empowering other women!

“Playing basketball makes me happy,” said Wali. “It teaches women they are not alone. As part of a team, you have the same goals."