[Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Intense (and brief) piece from Forbes about women as victims in war in Africa: http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2011/10/04/more-dangerous-to-be-a-woman-than-a-soldier/ You'll also notice that Forbe's cites Wikipedia's article about micro-lending! -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread carolmooredc
This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write. Someday... Rape in the U.S. Military Just searched rape U.S. military in wikipedia and just a mention of Okinawa, not the horrific statistics. Crime and U.S. military (safer article to start with to avoid AfD) showed nothing

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Béria Lima
*This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write someday... Rape in the U.S. Military * Can you find sources for this article Carol? We all know that exist, but I don't see many people talking about it. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Keating
On the whole I think our military history articles aren't great at dealing with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions. For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam War article doesn't

Re: [Gendergap] More Dangerous to be a Woman Than a Soldier

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hey everyone, I'm gathering a large collection of resources for this subject - specifically United States Military and rape - from the incident in Okinawa to Civil War period rape, to sexual assault and attack within the US military against women and men. If you wish to have access to the