Overall an estimated 85 to 114 million girls and women in the world are genitally mutilated. ... These women and girls experience pain, trauma, and frequently severe physical problems such as bleeding, infections, or even death. ... Approximately 85 percent of all women who undergo FGM have clitoridectomies. ... It is surrounded by skin and tough scar tissue and is sometimes as small as the head of a match or the tip of the little finger. ... It is a socially driven surgical procedure that causes grave damage to women. ...

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Ever since sexual harassment received attention, there is often very little understanding and confusion among employers and employees of what constitutes sexual harassment in the work setting. ... In this paper, I concentrate on the experiences of women because even though women can sexually harass men, or there is harassment t hat takes place between the same sexes, there is very little research done on these issues. Most women give several examples, like staring. Women describe this as "undressing you with their eyes-. The women aren't referring to admiring looks, but to what they c...

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That movie is rated R, but little kids were in there with their parents. ... The rate of pregnancies has dropped from a peak of 117 for every 1,000 young women ages 15 to 19 in 1990, to 101 in 1995. ... Nine in 10 sexually active women and their partners use a contraceptive method, although not always consistently or correctly. ... Teens have higher rates of contracting gonorrhea than do sexually active men and women aged 20 to 44. Chlamydia is more common among teens than among older men and women; in some settings, 10-29% of sexually active teenage women and 10% of teenage men tested for STD...

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There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost no correlation with violence against women (of course nothing is "absolute" in society). ... Such a magazine would not display pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. ... To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. ... Realistically, the only way to prevent women from being seen as sex objects is ...

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There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost no correlation with violence against women (of course nothing is "absolute" in society). ... Such a magazine would not display pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. ... To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. ... Realistically, the only way to prevent women from being seen as sex objects i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Episiotomies were given because they were believed to be safer than the women's perineum ripping naturally. ... The mediolateral advantages are the enlargement of the vaginal opening and little risk of tearing to the anus. ... Sexual problems arise in 10 to 20 percent of women after episiotomies. ... By empowering women that they can prevent the cruel cut. ... Allowing women to go through this then have problems with urinary and fecal incontinence, and sexual discomfort can take away a women's sense of femininity. ...

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A survey conducted by the ABS in 1996 collected information on women's safety from a random sample of 6,300 women across Australia aged 18 and over. ... The Women's Safety Survey has helped develop national estimates on the nature and extent of sexual violence experienced by women in both the previous 12-month period and also from the age of 15 (ABS 1996b). ... Both the Women's Safety Survey and the questions on sexual assault from the Crime and Safety Surveys were limited to women over 18 years of age, leaving out children, adolescents and men. ... It is likely, therefore,...

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It was also reported several abolitionist charges that slave women were frequently abused by white men. ... White male access to slave women both threatened the stability of the white family and emphasized the fact that in many respects married white women were little more than the property of their husbands. ... There were no actual law that recognize the rape of a black women. ... White free women, like enslaved black women, were both under the protection of the same man. ... One of the essential legal differences between slave and free women was that free women were protected from se...

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Domestic violence against women is widespread phenomenon that has affected the lives and health of women's mental and physical health. ... This may happen during rape when a women is forced to have sex, is physically beaten while sex or is strangled during sex. ... Violence against women is one of the major causes of death against women in United States. Roughly 6,000 women die each year as result of domestic violence. ... It is approximated that one out of three women and one out ten men will be the victim of sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. ...

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Female juvenile offenders account for less that 5 percent of reported sexual offenses, and very little information is known on this population, due to limited sample sizes, and the overall underestimating, that female juveniles are capable of sexual offenses (Kalogerakis, 1992; Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.). ... Little research has been conducted on the role of substance abuse, therefore, its overall effects to the juvenile sexual offending population remains unclear (Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.) ... Furthermore, public registries do little to inform the public a...

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A big question surrounding the topic of prostitution is what has brought it about and what keeps women doing it. I've often wondered what drives women into prostitution. ... Many women feel it is solely their right to choose if they can have an abortion and it is unconstitutional to deny them this right of choice. ... This right guarantees the right to women, if they choose to have an abortion. ... Others believe that if the women has been raped, her life is in danger, or a victim of incest, that abortion is a valid option given these c...

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Premarital sex is when a women and man have sex before they are married. ... Women are running to abortion clinics because neither they nor their partners took the proper precautions ahead of time. ... They believe that living together is a good way to get to know a woman intimately, since "it's the little things" that can wreck a marriage. ... In the US, nine percent of young women under the age of 20 are becoming pregnant each year. ... (DeLamter, 304) Even though, we see safe sex ads all the time, young women are becoming pregnant. ...

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Others would take the view that - in the majority of instances, at least "the temporary collapse of ego boundaries that constitutes falling in love, is a genetically determined instinctual component of mating behavior', and so that falling in love has little to do with purposively nurturing one's spiritual development." ... Since societies create very different gender roles for men and women, differences in interpretation of the same data are bound to occur (Wade, et al., 1996). ...

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In Africa 15 million Men and women have died from this virus compared to 20 million internationally. ... In the Summit in Blantyne, Malawi, 8th September 1997, South Africa, the Declaration on Gender and Development was signed by SA Heads of State and Government as they had committed their countries prevent violence and abuse against women and children. ...

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The women of music today are becoming more sexually appealing to audiences, but their audiences consists of mostly children, some as young kindergarten age. ... Young children do not need to see nearly naked women on television, nor do they need to hear phrases such as "back that ass up". ...

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A wife is known to act as the church when compared to God's marriage, but she is also referred to as the Little Christ because she still has some power and say-so in the marriage (Reference 12 pg. 61). ...

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