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We were exposed to harassment, exploitation, intimidation and discrimination.
So in addition to promoting those proactive solutions, the other thing we need to do is upend the hate in our institutions and our policies that perpetuate dehumanization and difference and otherizing and hate, like systems of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace, or our deeply racially imbalanced and deeply racially biased criminal "justice" system.
The kind of harassment that women face in Pakistan is very serious and leads to sometimes deadly outcomes.
So for example, outreach workers who are distributing condoms to vulnerable populations are not themselves subject to police harassment or abuse or arbitrary arrest.
That's lifetimes of women dealing with men who assume they know better for us than we know for ourselves, being the property of husbands, landowners, and having old, white men tell us the fate of our lady parts; lifetimes of having our bodies used for love and objects of desire, instead of bodies that we get to wield and use as we choose; lifetimes of knowing that whether we play by their rules or not, we still have to tolerate harassment, assault and even worse; lifetimes of our bodies being used as property that can be hit and hurt, manipulated and moved and like objects that are not deserving of respect; lifetimes of not being able to express the anger of our bodies.
"They're not sure this rises to the level of harassment, and they're not set up technically to find the device."
Service members have demanded Congress reform the military, and workers ranging from Hollywood stars to janitorial staff have called out sexual harassment in the workplace.
Rather, it prohibits all forms of sex discrimination, including sexual violence and harassment within educational programs that accept federal funding.
While initially targeting sex discrimination within admissions, Title IX has actually evolved over time to require educational institutions to intervene and address gender violence when committed by certain parties, such as when teachers, students or campus visitors commit sexual assault or harassment.
But I was standing there in that space, and I was looking around that hall as well, and I could tell people in that hall who were struggling with alcohol, drugs, finance, gambling, domestic abuse, bullying and harassment.
In dating, the transition from friendship to sex can lead to, notoriously, various forms of awkwardness, and as can sex in the workplace, in which we call the conflict between a dominant and a sexual relationship "sexual harassment."
I want to give you a second example: online harassment.
When online harassment goes unchecked, free speech is stifled.
I'm going to share with you a paradigm-shifting perspective on the issues of gender violence: sexual assault, domestic violence, relationship abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children.
And in this report, she recounted her firsthand account of facing sexual harassment in India.
Since this report came to light, more young people than ever were discussing sexual harassment on the campus, and the university that Michaela belonged to gave her the assistance she needed.
The university even took measures to train its students to equip them with the skills that they need to confront challenges such as harassment, and for the first the time, I felt I wasn't alone.
There is a sixfold increase in women reporting harassment, and the government passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act in 2013 to protect women against sexual assault.
Now we call it "cyberbullying" and "online harassment."
The more we saturate our culture with public shaming, the more accepted it is, the more we will see behavior like cyberbullying, trolling, some forms of hacking and online harassment.
We have the right to move through the world as we choose, free from harassment or violence.
There's a lot of debate today on how to combat online harassment and fight trolls.
But when their practices involve harassment, threats, illegal activities, or abuse, the law can intervene.
Over a century later, Bill Clinton was impeached for making false statements under oath during a sexual harassment trial.
People who were members of my family, young people I had worked with, were experiencing harassment at schools, at workplaces and in airports.
As they end up failed by the education system, they're on the streets where they're vulnerable to violence, police harassment, police brutality and incarceration.
They face bullying, harassment and more.
Me Too and Time's Up have highlighted that harassment and discrimination are a shockingly common part of many people's lived reality, and that this reality extends into the workplace.
It's time for us to report harassment and discrimination to those who can fix this mess.
And it's time for us to talk about harassment in a more inclusive way: not just about sexual harassment, but to encourage people to come forward about harassment and discrimination based on other characteristics such as age, disability or ethnicity.
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