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Mar

2011

philosophy bites: Catherine MacKinnon on Gender Crime

Do we need a special category to understand certain sorts of crime based on relationships of power? Catharine MacKinnon believes that the concept of gender crime brings into focus the special nature of a range of crimes.

Listen to Catharine MacKinnon on Gender Crime (NB includes descriptions of sexual violence)

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Gender Crime Equality Free Will

Dec

2009

Hipsters repaint bike lanes in brush off to Hasids - NYPOST.com

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Gender Equality Religion

Groups of bicycle-riding vigilantes have been repainting 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways ever since the city sandblasted their bike lanes away last week at the request of the Hasidic community.
Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained.
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- Abraham contends the bike lanes put children at risk of getting hit by cars or bicycles as they exited school buses.
- safety is not the issue so much as xenophobia.
  "They don't want the hipsters in their neighborhood," he said. "It's like in Howard Beach back in the day when they didn't want black people in the neighborhood."

yax-1087 Stone-age sex law hidden in plain sight

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Gender Equality Sex Agency

It's a story about a teenage boy having sex with teenage girls. The discrimination is operating at both the level of the law and that of the media. In the case of the latter, what the news story does is to first condemn the boy as a recalcitrant criminal and then describe the additional "crime" he is accused of.
A boy, then aged 15, had sex with two girls aged 15. The sexual encounters are described as consensual -- one girl even skipping school to make the tryst. The boy is charged and faces up to 10 years in jail. There is no mention of the girls being charged.
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- the same boy, who would then be either 14 or 15, had had sex with a girl "under the age of 16". He was put under probation; no word of any penalty for that girl. One assumes she was not charged.
- the Straits Times uses the word "victim" to describe one of the consenting females. The boy was named in the article while the girls were not, presumably to protect their reputations.
- They perpetuate an archaic notion of females as innocent, helpless, asexual creatures, incapable of autonomy. Any sex that occurs must be an aggressive defilement of female purity, by males who are deemed predators simply on account of their sex.
- The law in question is the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006.
  
  Section 3 of this law ("Defilement of child under the age of 17 years") makes it an offence for "Any person who engages in a sexual act with a child who is under the age of 17 years". The penalty is up to 5 years' imprisonment, higher if there are aggravating circumstances or if it is a repeat offence.
  
  On the face of it, the phrasing is gender-neutral, but the same law's Section 5 says "A female child under the age of 17 years shall not be guilty of an offence under this Act by reason only of her engaging in an act of sexual intercourse." For this reason, the boy's consenting female partner was not charged.
- The justification for this kind of discrimination seems to be that girls risk getting pregnant from sexual intercourse, and that risk is terrible enough to excuse them from legal penalty.
- Yet,
  as argued by the boy's lawyer, modern legislation has already equalised the burden of teenage pregnancy often requiring the father of the child to pay child support.
- This before we even consider that risk of pregnancy is just that: risk; whereas prosecution for the boy is almost a sure thing whether or not a baby results.

The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country (Greece) - Munich RePEc Personal Archive

The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country (Greece)

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Gender Education Equality

the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings functions of the Hartog-type also indicate that women seek for less risky educations that consequently command lower wage premiums in the job market.