Alliance Against Sexual Coercion

	Alliance Against Sexual Coercion The Alliance Against Sexual Coercion (AASC), established in June 1976 by Freada Kapor Klein, Lynn Wehrli, and Elizabeth Cohn-Stuntz, was among the first US organizations to organize against sexual harassment and severe sexual coercion experienced by working women. They argued that sexual harassment toward women holds the idea/ stereotype that women are less than men making it harder for women in the work place. Many feminist groups worked toward gaining right, but these rights were only useful to white women. Black women were effected a lot because of their Intersectionality. These women were subjected to racism and sexism making them one of the major works of AASC. History/Objectives The Alliance Against Sexual Sexual Coercion organization was originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The womenhad experience dealing with sexual harassment claims due to their work at the Washington D.C. Rape Crisis Center. Klein, Wehrli, and Cohn-Stuntz were able to take more of an inters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alliance Against Sexual Coercion The Alliance Against Sexual Coercion (AASC), established in June 1976 by Freada Kapor Klein, Lynn Wehrli, and Elizabeth Cohn-Stuntz, was among the first US organizations to organize against sexual harassment and severe sexual coercion experienced by working women. They argued that sexual harassment toward women holds the idea/ stereotype that women are less than men making it harder for women in the work place. Many feminist groups worked toward gaining right, but these rights were only useful to white women. Black women were effected a lot because of their Intersectionality. These women were subjected to racism and sexism making them one of the major works of AASC. History/Objectives The Alliance Against Sexual Sexual Coercion organization was originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The womenhad experience dealing with sexual harassment claims due to their work at the Washington D.C. Rape Crisis Center. Klein, Wehrli, and Cohn-Stuntz were able to take more of an inters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Freada Kapor Klein Freada Kapor Klein (born August 26, 1952) is an American venture capitalist, social policy researcher and philanthropist. As a partner at Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact, she is known for efforts to diversify the technology workforce through activism and investments. Her 2007 book ''Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay'' examines the reasons people have for leaving corporate America as well as the human and financial cost. Klein first became a victims advocate in the 1970s. During this time, she noticed a widespread denial of the prevalence of sexual harassment and compared it to the silence surrounding rape that she had seen six years earlier. Kapor Klein's association with technology companies began when she started working for Lotus Software in 1984. In 2015, Benjamin Jealous called her "the moral center of Silicon Valley and an O.G. in technology". Early life and education Klein was born in Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rape Crisis Center Rape crisis centers (RCCs) are community-based organizations affiliated with the anti-rape movement that work to help victims of rape, sexual abuse, and sexual violence. Central to a community's rape response, RCCs provide a number of services, such as victim advocacy, crisis hotlines, community outreach, and education programs. As social movement organizations, they seek to change social beliefs and institutions, particularly in terms of how rape is understood by medical and legal entities and society at large. There is a great deal of diversity in terms of how RCCs are organized, which has implications for their ideological foundations, roles in their communities, and the services they offer. In the United States, the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-HOPE, operated by RAINN) is a partnership by over 1,100 rape crisis centers. History The first American RCCs were formed in several states throughout the country in the early 1970s, largely by women associated with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lin Farley Lin Farley (born December 14, 1942) is an American author, journalist and feminist. She was a leader in calling attention to the problems faced by women in the workforce, in particular sexual harassment. Sexual harassment In 1974, she was hired by Cornell University as director of the university's Women's Section and lecturer for a field study course called Women and Work. In a 1974 consciousness raising discussion connected with that course, she began to realize the extent of the problem that she later termed "sexual harassment". As the women in the class described their experiences in the workplace she noticed a pattern: every woman there had either quit or been fired from a job because they had been made so uncomfortable by the behavior of men. She discovered that this phenomenon of male harassment and intimidation of female workers had not been described in the literature and was not publicly recognized as a problem, although she continued to hear it described by women from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Advocacy Groups In The United States Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes, including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research. Lobbying (often by lobby groups) is a form of advocacy where a direct approach is made to legislators on a specific issue or specific piece of legislation. Research has started to address how advocacy groups in the United States and Canada are using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action. Forms There are several forms of advocacy, each representing a different approach in a way to initiate changes in the society. One of the most popular forms is social just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]