victims.The purpose of this paper was to examine the differences in sexual functioning in abused women who perceived themselves to be adjusted to the trauma of their sexual abuse and those who did not.A sample of 57 nonclinical adult women who had been sexually abused as children was studied...
But attempts at diversity may stop at middle echelons of news organizations, based on statistics of the number of women who hold high-ranking managerial positions at news outlets. Figures from the American Society of Newspaper Editors show that in 1979, fewer than 4% of its members were women...
This chapter will focus on the unique needs of women who have sex with women. The virtual absence of women from the history of HIV prevention education efforts, with a particular focus on lesbian women and their unique needs as a subculture, will be discussed. Recommendations will be made add...
The majority of women are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses and pose little or no danger to society. Even when they have committed violent crimes, they are often directed to intimate partners who inflicted years of abuse upon them. The literature does not support the existence of the "career...
Although legislation protecting women's rights in South Africa is well developed, statistics indicate that violence against women has become the norm. There are no cultural, socio-economic, political, religious or educational boundaries to domestic violence. Despite this, some abused women display cert...
The stakes are huge. On the one hand, women who are insecure about their bodies are more likely to buy beauty products, new clothes, and diet aids. It is estimated that the diet industry alone is worth anywhere between 40 to 100 billion (U.S.) a year selling temporary weight loss (90...
55. Given that estimates of the voluntarily childfree group are around a quarter of the total population of people without children, we note that public health interventions should take this proportion into account and target those who are involuntarily childless due to certain diseases. Among ...
On the other hand, women who have been abused, who have had poor parental bonding, and who have not had the opportunity to develop subsequent attachments, are less likely to make use of available social supports. Clients who are unable to develop and use social supports may also be unable...
the sample size may not be statistically significant for the results to be representative of the entire kink community. It is reasonable to assume that there are many people practicing kink behaviors who have no knowledge of the kink community; it is also reasonable to assume that many people ...
The WHO Report on global and regional estimates on violence against women found that women who have been physically or sexually abused by their partners report higher rates of a number of important health problems. For example, they are 16% more likely to have a low-birth-weight baby. They...