Safety Issues for Women Traveling Solo
Stay Safe But Don’t Stay Home
By Zahara Heckscher
Zaraha Heckscher(left) with a Musonda friend in Zambia from Safety Issues for Women Traveling Solo: Stay Safe But Don’t Stay Home.
Women are frequently warned about independent international travel. Unfortunately, it is true that women are much more likely than men to be the victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. In virtually every country I have visited I heard from female travelers and volunteers who had been subjected to "frequent come-ons, unwanted touching, or inappropriate comments," in the words of one Peace Corps volunteer. Harassment and assault range from verbal harassment, to crude propositions, to groping (especially by men in
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(In India, a toe ring on your second toe means you’re not available.) Many volunteers learn strategies from local women. In Mexico, for example, women often sit together, even if they don’t know each other. Other tips, in the words of previous travelers, include:
• "Be careful about letting your guard down while on vacation." • "Travel with a group at night." • "Before you leave home, talk to other women who have traveled in the countries you plan to visit." • "The in-country program director cautioned us against looking or staring at the men for too long at a time; this could be misinterpreted since the women in the local villages were taught not to make eye contact with the men." • "Be ready to give up some freedoms that you are used to at home." • "Females must take care with their dealings with any male older than 14 and younger than 75. I was often misunderstood at first and didn’t realize that plain speaking and looking at a man directly when speaking to him could be misinterpreted as flirting. I learned quickly to be very formal and to always involve several people in any conversation." • "Don’t be afraid to ask about the security situation where you are posted and find out about any prior incidents that may have occurred in the area." • "When it comes to your life, you can’t be too cautious." No matter what you do or don’t do, remember that it is not your fault if you are assaulted. If you are raped or assaulted, it is most
The book Safety 24/7 was a book basically about safety in an industrial workplace. The book explained many safety tips to improve a safe working environment. There were a few main characters in this book that were very easily to understand their purpose in the story. The first character that appeared in this story is Kurt Bradshaw. He was promoted to the manager of worldwide safety. His great leadership skills and motivational techniques had put him in this new position. Kurt was very excited for the job and ready for it, but he was not too familiar about any safety tasks that could improve the workplace.
In February 2011, the council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022. The policy includes a 12 year national action plan aims to interrelate the significant work conducted by all Australian governments, community groups/organisations and individuals aiming to reduce the level of violence directed towards woman and children.
On September 5, 1995, Hillary Clinton delivered an influential speech at The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Clinton expresses general concern over escalating violence toward women, in other word’s gendercide. “Gendercide refers to the systematic elimination of a specific gender group, normally female. It’s most common in India, China, and other regions in Southeast Asia” (GirlsKind Foundation). Crimes, such as bride trafficking, infanticide, abandonment, and dowry related murder; often take place within private households, going unnoticed and not even acknowledged. “Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated. Even now, in the late 20th century, the rape of women continues to be used as an
Furthermore, there was a strong lack of female empowerment resulting as there was a general strong dichotomy in tasks performed by each gender. However, the women’s new lives offered them a sense of liberation by providing a larger space of operation, in that they could explore additional activities previously limited or unexplored to them, such as teaching and gardening. Regardless, these observations paint a general brush of the women traveling and there always exist individuals, such as Sessions, who buck this trend.
Injustices in this world infect people's lives like diseases. One in particular has not only developed over the years, but cases spring up in the most unthought of places. This injustice commonly known as sexual harassment affects women, children, and occasionally men all across the globe. There are many aspects when it comes to sexual harassment including its background, opposing viewpoints on the popular belief, the popular viewing, sexual harassment in today's society, solutions to the problem, and what the future would be like without this injustice on the world's hands.
Mission: Advance the health and safety of women and girls with a focus on disease prevention and wellness. (cdc.gov/women)
Domestic terrorism according to the dictionary is defined as “the methodical use of violence or threatening by means of violence against citizens or individuals so as to obtain certain political, religious or an idea in nature by means of coercion, instilling fear in people or by intimidation”
On Friday, October 27th, this author visited the Women’s Resource Center located in Saraland, Alabama. The Saraland location is located at 1088 Industrial Parkway, Suite 3, and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Appointments can be made at the Saraland Women’s Resource Center location by calling 251-675-0911. Two other Women’s Resource Centers are located in Mobile on Downtowner Loop and Sage Avenue. There is also a mobile unit that travels to different locations in the Mobile area daily.
A person wrote a letter to the editor in “The News-Sentinel”, saying that insurance should cover women who want to go out and have babies. On the other hand, this person wants women who want to have an abortion to come up with the money themselves and that the government or insurance should not cover abortions (“The Rant,” 2009). Many believe that some women use abortions as a form of birth control. For women who find themselves in that situation, the expense for those types of abortions should be paid for by those women. However, in certain cases such as incest, rape, genetics, failed birth control and endangerment to the life of the expectant mother. Those situations should be covered by insurance.
Women in today’s society have a lot more power and say in what they can or cannot do.
On 11/30/16 at 10:30 AM, Security Officer (S/O) Ashley Lorah notified Security’s Account Manager Enmanuel Cabrera, that she found damage in the 3rd stall of the women’s Inbound bathroom. S/O Lorah stated the door of the 3rd stall bathroom was found completely ripped off. S/O Lorah found the damage at 10:18 AM. Last check was conducted at 9:00 AM by S/O Lorah. Security was unable to complete the 30 minute bathroom check due to the fact that, Matthew Pauline was gathering information that occurred in the truck from 8:40 AM -9:15 AM. The 3rd rover, Isabella Roberts, was at B-screen assisting with associates breaks and officers breaks from 9:00 AM- 10:00 AM. S/O Lorah stated that she notified CBRE of the damage and security was not able to take
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There are political policies currently at work that is trying to keep the elderly women safe. Although these policies are to safeguard elderly women, they have some unintended consequences. For instance, the Medicaid Cash and Counseling Program. The Cash & Counseling Program began as a pilot Medicaid program in fifteen states with the objective of increasing applicants’ control over their care services and providers (Receive Payment, n.d.) Before, Medicaid would contract with home care agencies to provide personal assistance services. Now, under the Cash & Counseling, care recipients are given the flexibility to choose their own home care agencies. Family members can act as a home care agency (Receive Payment, n.d). This mean that relatives,
Firstly, Women are less privileged in today 's society because of the overwhelming numbers of sexualy based crimes and harrasments. Women face harassment on a daily basis, even in the western society women are troubled with the fear of these humiliating and often violent forms of discrimination. Sexual harassment and violence is a vast topic because of the different forms in which it takes. but the most common forms consist of catcalling, unwanted sexual
DISCUSS THE EXTENT OF PROTECTION FOR WOMEN AGAINST MALE VIOLENCE BY THE STATE. For this essay I am going to look at Domestic Violence against women and what the State is doing to protect them. Domestic Violence is now a well-known global occurrence affecting not only women but also their children too. Violence against woman has been around since the dawn of time. We have all seen cartoon pictures of the caveman dragging his mate behind him by her hair. It was just something that men did. Woman had no protection against men especially if they were married to their attacker. For the first 75 years of the 20th century women were seen as meek and subservient to their men and were also owned by those men. Men had a social right to keep