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Columbia University has just released updated information pertaining to sexual assault cases on campus. The report details recent developments regarding the new Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, as well as campus resources and prevention education for students, staff, and faculty. An email from Provost John Coatsworth this evening provided more detail into the report and a link to access it from Columbia’s sexual respect website.
The report provides the numbers of specific types of sexual assault complaints filed to Columbia between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. Most of the information in the report is provided through tables, although other information is scattered throughout. Of note:
- The report includes details of training for faculty and administration. Sexual Violence Response (SVR) gives 20 minute sessions to administrators on “how best to support survivors of violence.” Administrators involved in the hearing process “will receive enhanced training both annually and then specifically in advance of serving in an individual case.”
- For cases of intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, and stalking, more cases were resolved through “Informal resolution” than any other outcome. (The report clarifies, “For a case to be resolved in this way, the complainant, respondent, and SSGBSM [Student Services for Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct] must agree upon the outcome…. Resolution of cases in this manner is not permitted for reported allegations of sexual assault.”)
- The report states that accommodations (“such as moving a student’s residence, changing a student’s academic schedule…and/or issuing a ‘no contact’ order”) were requested on 34 occasions, and were “Granted Entirely” all 34 times (as opposed to “Granted in Part” or “Denied Entirely”). No clarification is made as to the distinction between full and partial completion of these requests.
- “The average time to resolve reports that were fully investigated and then resolved via a hearing was 91 days (not including the appeal).” The average appeal process took 9 business days.
- No appeal in the time frame of the report changed the finding of the initial investigation it was appealing.
The full email is included after the jump.
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
Over the past year, the issue of sexual assault has gained a new level of attention and engagement on campuses around the country. We are committed to providing a national model of the best policies and practices to help ensure that members of our University community feel safe and respected. As one part of that commitment, we are publishing Columbia’s first annual Report on Gender-Based Misconduct Prevention and Response. The report can be accessed here from Columbia’s Sexual Respect website.
Included in this report are substantive steps taken in recent months, including major revisions to the University’s Gender-Based Misconduct Policy and Procedures for Students, the opening of an additional Sexual Violence Response and Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center at Lerner Hall, and enhanced consent and bystander training. These are all aspects of the significant progress we have made on this issue.
The report includes aggregate data on possible violations of the policy by Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College students reported during the 2013-14 academic year to the office previously known as Student Services for Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct. We are one of very few peer institutions to publish such information. We do so as one more way of expanding discussion and understanding of the scope of gender-based misconduct and how to better prevent its occurrence.
It is important to note that the data provided – based on recommendations from President Bollinger’s Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault – reflect policies and procedures that have since been significantly revised and enhanced. This report is, by its nature, a look backward. While the data on student cases is an important step, we anticipate continued activity and improvement in the year ahead.
It also should be acknowledged that no one set of numbers gives a complete picture of the experiences of our University community. In future years this report will include the results of a climate survey that will provide a deeper understanding of attitudes and experiences of students on our campus. We hope that a combination of growing awareness about preventing sexual assault and new policies for addressing it when it does occur will have an impact on such data in future years.
For the present, we urge everyone interested in this vital topic to consult the Sexual Respect website,www.sexualrespect.columbia.edu, for relevant resources – including resources for members of the community who feel the need to speak privately about personal concerns related to this report. The website also outlines important University initiatives that have responded both to student requests and to changing guidelines under Title IX from the U.S. Department of Education in recent months. We believe that common ground exists for further action in the year ahead.
A final point about the importance of maintaining student privacy in providing anonymous data: our University is committed to protecting the privacy of students participating in gender-based misconduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings. Without confidence that their privacy will be protected, students in need are less likely to confide in the medical personnel, psychological counselors, and student conduct professionals who can help them. For this reason, as well as considerations related to federal student and health privacy laws, the University does not comment on specific cases, and the report has been careful not to include information that identifies specific individuals.
We are committed to taking the steps within our authority to ensure that members of our community can feel a sense of safety, respect, and fairness in preventing and addressing gender-based misconduct in all its forms.
Sincerely,
John Coatsworth
Provost
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@25% are raped? And for the record, before people begin calling me misogynist for pointing out what’s actually in the data, let me make something clear:
1. I don’t support gender inequality. I want all gender inequalities to be abolished.
2. I don’t support women not working. I want women to participate fully in the workforce, including in dangerous jobs. In fact, if the type of woman that I would not want to be in a relationship with is one who doesn’t work and expects me to support her financially just because I’m a man.
3. I don’t want anybody to be raped. But I also don’t want to be told that this campus is more dangerous than the country where my cousin lives, because her country is actually a warzone. It’s damn insulting when you make claims like that because you have no idea what it’s like to live in such a dangerous and hostile place.
4. I want the administration to deal fairly and justly with the 1.45% of students who are sexually assaulted on campus. But that does not mean that I need to be told that I am a rapist when I have never even thought about raping someone. I am a human being and I do not like being demonized, especially for things that I have never done, wanted to do, or thought about doing. How would you like it if I accused you of being a thief and con artist just because you were a girl?
@anna You’re the voice of reason. Right on! Thank you!
@25% are raped? These data prove that on this campus at least, this a myth. The report clearly states that there were 29 sexual assaults last year. There are 4000 students, and approximately 50% are female. So if we assume that all reported sexual assaults were female (which is blatantly false because Bwog said that at least one of the people who was sexually assaulted last year was a male), 29/2000 female students was assaulted. 29/2000=1.45%. Not 25%. Not 1/4. Not 1/3. Not 1/2.
Will you accept that this campus is safer than warzone countries now? Because it’s pretty insulting to people who are in countries in which rape is legal and they actually have a 25-50% chance of getting raped when you have a 1% chance of being sexually assaulted (not raped) and you are pretending that this campus is more dangerous than those warzones.
I am very glad that Columbia released this data. Let’s get it for all of the schools and prove these femnazis wrong.
@CC '15 THE MAJORITY OF ASSAULTS ARE NOT REPORTED.
GOD.
@Serpentine 25% of the female student body is 400 students. Do you seriously believe that 92.75% of the women who were assaulted did not report it to anybody, either the police or to law enforcement (and that’s discounting the fact that some of those reported case are, in fact, men, so it’s actually even HIGHER for nonreporting if what you’re saying is true!)?
Don’t try to use the Koss study to defend your claim. The Koss study classified people who EXPLICITLY SAID they were not raped as being raped. In other words, the Ivory Tower feminist goddess decided for other people what had happened to them and didn’t let them decide for themselves. Moreover, Koss found that 1/8 men were raped according to the definition that she was using, but then said that since her definition wasn’t the legal definition, she was throwing out the data for men. This is all in the 1987 paper. Did you seriously think we wouldn’t ever read the study and see that for ourselves? We know how the Woozle Effect works, so we read and cross-check every word that you guys claim supports your side.
@Anonymous What kind of strange moon math is this? Where did I say that 100% of all women are assaulted?
@Anonymous The two definitions of rape she uses are state- based and the narrower FBI-based, both of which constitute legal definitions.
@jakes Unreported? So what can you do about that? Still call it “rape culture” and then guess how many cases are underreported? Or even worse, do you want innocent people to be accused and punished without a shred of evidence just to prove people like you that someone is doing something about it? Oh, you stupid people are too much!I can’t believe I’m living on the same earth with you!
@Anonymous I agree with you that say campus is less safe than a war zone is an incredible stretch.
But it is incorrect to assume that only 1.45% of women at Columbia have experienced sexual assault. This is data about *reported* rates of a *severely underreported* crime (especially at the university level, where students obviously have very little faith in the university to support victims).
If you want meaningful data, it’s easier to study perpetrators. For example, in 1987, the National Survey of Rape (Koss et al) found that 1 in 12 college men had committed acts that legally constituted rape (and 84% of those had no idea!).
The problem is, most rapes are very difficult to prove (even an immediate rape kit may only reveal that sex occurred, but say nothing conclusive about rape). Further, men are more likely to commit sexual violence in communities where sexual violence goes unpunished.
For more information about understanding the perp, check out this great compilation of statistics from the University of Michigan:
http:// sapac .umich .edu /article/196
The full version can be found here:
http:// sapac .umich .edu/ files/ sapac/ StrivingForJustice.pdf
Personally, I know three people who have had a sexual experience on campus traumatizing enough to affect them in multiple aspects of their life (afraid to leave their dorm room even to attend class, failing and in-completing classes, self-medicating with food or drugs the point of excessive weight gain, etc.). Only one of those friends reported it, and she constantly regretted it after her perpetrator began to come after her. I think she did the right thing, but it was very difficult.
I know anecdotes don’t say much, but if you were to have an honest conversation with your friends I bet you’d find similar results.
@hmmm Shut up.
@My Peepee How is putting your thing in someones ass even illegal.. the anus is not a sexual organ… its literally like giving someone a high five. What will they think of next… putting your finger in someone’s ear is rape?
@hmmm (above) I should make clear that I completely sympathize with and do not wish to diminish your experiences, only to disagree wholeheartedly with your conclusions.
@BC '16 As a senior Board Member of No Red Tape I want to clear up some misconceptions. We are not just trying to get some guy kicked out of school. That is not even close to our mission. In fact the individual is not the problem, it is the culture. Rape culture is real and that should be obvious to everyone of basic intellect. Let me put this simply we stand for a few basic improvements that could seriously save lives! I list three but we have many more innovative solutions that schools should be implementing across the country: 1) Improved Sexual Assault training (role reversal training is crucial, that would be a program in which men are subjected to graphic verbal abuse and even physical assault by women so that they know how it feels, this program would not be needed for people of color who already understand how privilege works against them); 2) Streamlined review of alleged sexual abuse with a presumption of guilt that could be refuted by the defendant (if a woman is strong enough to bring charges against her assailant it should be presumed guilty until proven innocent); 3) Dismantling of all fraternities on campus without at least 50% LGBT representation.
@CC '15 This comment seriously confuses me. Like I was with you for the first couple sentences and then it got bizarre, and I hope you’re not serious.
(And the whateverthefuck it’s worth, I’m an assault survivor currently dealing with the GBM Office.)
@BC '16 Thank you for being a survivor and for showing others that we don’t just disappear. But I am confused as to why you have singled out my comment for disparaging remarks. I just believe that the rape that you and I have experienced didn’t have to occur. That individuals only act according to what society dictates is acceptable behavior and that men have been programmed to believe that rape is acceptable. I believe that we can stop them from raping others through progressive reeducation and that begins with behaviorist exercises in which they experience the same verbal and physical abuse women experience everyday. It is the only program that has proven to reduce incidents of rape by 100%. In addition to that I believe that we need to fix this broken administrative hearing system. If a woman is brave enough to make a complaint she should be believed. Anything besides a presumption of guilt is to say that women are liars and rape doesn’t exist. Maybe I was inarticulate the first time I tried to express these views and you thought I was advocating for something else. If that was the case I hope you understand the sensible suggestions of No Red Tape and that you support them as the policy is implemented campus-wide.
@hmmm Please stop making fun of Barnard already. We had a few laughs, but this is getting to be too much.
@hmmm I honestly don’t know how you can live in the same planet and think that men believe, or are socially trained to think, that rape is somehow acceptable. Perhaps in war-torn Somalia or tribal Pakistan. Of course it is not– that is why it is regarded as one of the most severe crimes in the criminal statutes, in all state jurisdictions. How deprived can you possibly be of the capacity to think about what goes on in other people’s heads, to arrive at such an absurd and outrageous conclusion?
@jakeboy I do appreciate the fact that you’re trying to be neutral here. It may be a bit too late for that, but the time will tell. Yes, you say that now that you’ve dragged his name all over the internet even though the guy wasn’t even officially accused of anything. You are guilty by association, then. You ARE supporting the E.S’s sideshow of mattress dragging that has circled the world and got so much attention and enraged so many people – all that based on Emma’s CLAIM that she was raped. And I know, she is your poster child, and you are just building your bigger case around her, and addressing “bigger” issues. In the meantime, the guy probably has to hide his identity now, all because of some nut jobs.
You’ve supported E.S. unconditionally, even though she is not pursuing the case all the way to the DA’s office (because she can’t be bothered with it). You support her making a project out of her rape case “to raise awareness”. And yes, directly or indirectly you support everything she calls for – lynching of an innocent man. Yes, I say, innocent because he hasn’t been convicted. If she wants him convicted – she should stay by what she claims and face him in court. You don’t have a hero here. You have to look somewhere else for one. So, if you want your activism to mean something to the rest of the Columbia community, you have to stop being cowards and being afraid of,god forbid, supporting “the other side”, men in our community instead of completely alienating them.?
by the way, i don’t understand your # 2 here: are you saying that a man should be presumed guilty until proven innocent? ” 2) Streamlined review of alleged sexual abuse with a presumption of guilt that could be refuted by the defendant (if a woman is strong enough to bring charges against her assailant it should be presumed guilty until proven innocent);”
@BC '16 Of course No Red Tape supports survivors and of course No Red Tape is in favor of the Collective Carry and of course No Red Tape strongly supports bringing awareness to the general community about threats to women including the criminal who victimized Emma. What don’t you get about that? All I’m saying, in my capacity as a Senior Board Member of No Red Tape, is that we are not a one-trick pony and in fact we would like to use the platform so elegantly established by Emma to enact serious change that will save the lives of female students who have not yet begun attending college. You see this is about long-term societal change, about facing privilege, about defeating micro-aggressions, about equal pay for equal work, and many other important causes. But we don’t just content ourself with telling you how things should be, we are taking an active role in changing campus culture and institutional management, and I am proud to say that important steps will be realized very soon.
@Calling out a Troll No Red Tape doesn’t have a Board and it doesn’t want any of the things the first poster asked for. Y’all are getting trolled.
@Mr. T Your mom doesn’t have a board
@BC '16 Sister it appears that you are a novice in No Red Tape. I strongly encourage you to reach out to your elder sister who can help dispel your misconceptions about what No Red Tape stands for and for the hierarchical relationship. Indeed we have a Board and it consists of sisters who have been there from the beginning many of which are now graduates of the University. I take it that you have not attended any of the board meetings because you are not a member, but that does not explain your ignorance regarding the policy platform that will soon be implemented in part.
@jakeboy Of course, you’re a one trick pony – you insist on supporting only women as if men don;t exist and don’t have any rights? What’s up with that? Your motto is “guilty until proven innocent” and guilty “even when proven innocent”, and “because I say so. You’re not about justice and rational thinking. You’re about group think. And you cannot convince me otherwise. Your “board” is nothing but an ironing board.. or skateboard… or just a plank
@BC '16 Manboy Jake I don’t care for your tone. You can disagree with our platform because you believe that rape culture can be better addressed by other means, but you can’t deny the existence of rape culture, the female lives being ruined, and the social costs of the disenfranchisement of women along with their civil liberties not to be raped. If you believe we have been heavyhanded, well, you are right, we aren’t going to be subtle or patient, we are trying to change rape culture this minute because one rape is one too many rapes. If you think we wouldn’t do whatever it takes to prevent rape you would be wrong, and if one of those things is offending you well then I guess that’s too bad cause get used to being offended cause we’re not going away, we’re only getting bigger. NYMag is only a stepping stone. soon the institution will be making major changes (be on the lookout for the upcoming memo on changes) and we have President Obama on our side. As long as we keep the republicans out of office we can end rape. So remember that when you vote.
@Befuddled @BC ’16
Are you really serious or just trolling? You say that “as long as we keep the republicans (sic) out of office we can end rape.” You do realize that there are over 180 countries on this earth where the Republican Party doesn’t hold any elected office, and yet there are rapes in all of these countries. Your absurd utopian ideal that all rape can be ended by simple changes in policy is completely ludicrous. If there were a way for governments to completely eliminate violent crime, we would have done it a long time ago.
Furthermore, I sincerely doubt that President Obama is on the side of No Red Tape. If he really believed in punishing rapists without trial based on unsubstantiated accusations, he would have to imprison his immediate Democratic predecessor (do a google search on Juanita Broaddrick).
@poopy bwog comments make me feel like dying. you are all trolls! all of yer!
@well hmm Before everyone continues to make sweeping generalizations about sex and gender and college and the student body of this university in particular, try to realize– the signs are obvious– that campus sexual assault is not at all a new thing, and that the focus on it is driven in no small part by national political dynamics.
@CS '15 Emma is on the cover of NY Mag. Well done. . . I applaud her. This girl got her fifteen minutes of fame by exploiting the issue of rape. Emma’s misguided need for attention is now a red herring that distracts from helping those who are victims of rape. Emma is “raping” the attention all for herself. Does anyone else see the irony in that ?
“She has committed to carrying around a twin-size dorm mattress everywhere she goes on campus. . .”
Somebody didn’t get enough attention from their parents growing up.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/columbia-student-art-project-protests-her-rapist.html
@BC '15 Like omg .. when will these rapists like stop raping people… i was like walking to 1020 last night and this guy asked me for the time. It was obvious he was trying to rape me so I said “get away from me rapist!”. Then he like looked at me all creepily and said “did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?”… and that freaked me out so much because it was obvious he was gonna roofie me and take me to his bed… so I go “I’m not gonna let you rape me you bastard!” I called public safety and they tasered him… omg thank you columbia.. thank you for keeping the rapists away i cried all night over this traumatic experience but then i went to rape crisis center and all of a sudden I felt okay again because they gave me a book called “yes means yes” and it was like sooo good…
@Anonymous Troll much?
@SEAS '15 Sherlock, much?
@Anonymous Here’s a recent case at occidental in which consensual sex gets a guy expelled because the girl regretted it after. This is the path Columbia’s going along:
“In the early morning of Sept. 8, 2013, after a long night of drinking that left the students more drunk than either had ever been, two Occidental College freshmen, one male and one female, had sex. Evidence indicates that the sex appeared consensual at the time it occurred.
A week later the female student, Jane Doe, filed a complaint with Occidental, saying she’d been the victim of a sexual assault. Just over three months later, and following an intensive official college investigation, the male freshman, John Doe, was notified he had been found responsible of sexual assault and non-consensual sex and was expelled from Occidental. Weeks later, he lost an appeal to overturn the decision.
Jane told investigators she didn’t remember having sex with John or understand why she appears to have voluntarily gone to his room that night with full knowledge at the time of what would likely happen.
Among the key pieces of evidence that John and his legal team are relying on are two text messages that Jane had sent before going to John’s room, one to him asking if he had a condom and another to a friend from her hometown saying “I’mgoingtohave sex now” (sic).
“The thing is I have no clue what I was thinking,” Jane later told investigators. “I would never have done that if I had been sober … I don’t know what was going through my head.””
@Anonymous Let’s also not forget that by this standard, *Emma* was the rapist in her encounter, because she described herself as being stonecold sober, whereas she concedes the guy was plastered. Obviously he was in no state to consent to the sex to begin with, so Emma shouldn’t have taken advantage of him and raped him.
@Anonymous Let A = Sober person has sex with Drunk person
B = Rape has occured
A => B
A
Therefore, B by modus ponens
Translation: We assume that if someone who is sober has sex with someone who is drunk, then the sober person has raped the drunk person. Emma was sober when she had sex with Paul. Therefore, Emma is a rapist!
@Anonymous ??? This isn’t my standard of “consent”, it’s the standard espoused by deranged activists who want to ruin sex and parties and fun. Except in their view, the woman bears no responsibility in the interaction, but god forbid if a sober guy were to have sex with a drunk (not incapacitated) girl. That’s RAPE. Hell, even if BOTH parties are drunk and give “affirmative consent” (see above), only the man is liable. How is this not completely farcical on its face to everyone here???
This is not a fringe view either, see what Duke has to say about it —
“As a similar lawsuit unfolds at Duke University, one administrator revealed what some critics see as a potential double standard in the school’s sexual-assault policy, according to local newspaper Indy Week.
During the trial two months ago, Duke’s dean of students, Sue Wasiolek, was asked whether she would characterize a situation in which two students “got drunk to the point of incapacity, and then had sex” as their having raped each other. No, she said. Rather, “Assuming it is a male and female, it is the responsibility in the case of the male to gain consent before proceeding with sex.””
@what's wrong with you when a stone cold sober person say’s no, and the plastered person physically forces himself upon that person…then yes that’s rape. that’s not an issue of intoxication, that’s an issue of “NO means NO,” something everyone was taught in kindergarten but some men never seem to learn.
tldr you’re a fucking idiot.
@from reddit Here’s the logic:
Women sometimes want sex so men should always get consent.
Men always want sex so consent should be treated as a given.
See how assigning stereotypes to entire genders makes everything simpler?
@Anonymous re: “what’s wrong with you”
that’s not actually how the story goes. emma concedes that she had prior relations with the guy and initiated the sex in her room, even though the guy was obscenely drunk. surely someone as well-informed as her knows that drunk people can’t give consent, so by this absurd logic, she was taking advantage of him by escalating the situation to sex.
now, she claims that he then pinned her down and stuck it in her bum without her consent. nevermind the fact that there’s no way he did this in one fell swoop (try to stick a phallic shaped object up your rectum and see how easily it gets up there) without lube and prep. nevermind the fact that she didn’t think anything of it until months and months later until she conferred with 2 other girls and realized that he was just pumping&dumping them all. nevermind the fact that she waited so long that any and all physical evidence would be long gone yet still demands that he be expelled. what it comes down to is that by the very SAME standard of consent that she and her cadre of overzealous activists support, she would have been a rapist in that situation.
now do i really believe that? god no. just pointing out how ludicrous this discussion about consent has gotten.
@BC '16 Emma could not have been the rapist because she was the victim of rape. What sort of twisted logical masturbation are you engaging in. To go a bit further with this analogy people who want to accuse Emma of raping her rapist are engaging in logical masturbation, but not only that they are logically masturbating to child pornography, that is just how depraved their logical masturbation is. Well let me put it like this to you. Have a seat, Chris Hanson is here to tell you what’s up. 1) you are a rape apologist, 2) rape victims aren’t rapists, 3) we will not smile and play cute while you rape us, we will not be silenced.
@Tastemaker I’m gonna need to see some receipts.
@omfg you guys are awful and pretty stupid.
YOU CANT CONSENT IF YOU’RE DRUNK. IF YOU DON’T REMEMBER THE INCIDENT YOU WERE DRUNK. YOU THEREFORE COULD’NT CONSENT. ANYTHING ANYONE DID TO YOU WAS RAPE. THIS ISN’T THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
@dsa What if both parties cannot remember because they were both blackout drunk? Is it double rape or can we consider that not sexual assault?
@Anonymous Also, blacking out is more a function of how little you’ve had to eat than how incapacitated you were. Anyone who’s woken up after having blacked out, only for all their friends to reassure them that they were acting perfectly normal, knows what I’m talking about.
In this case, both people were the most drunk they’ve ever been. The girl asked if the guy had condoms and told her friends she was going to have sex. Why is it that she was raped but the guy wasn’t? Is it because she regretted it after?
@Anonymous The more I learn about ES, the more I realize how wrong she is. At first I thought she was a victim. But, now I see that she is seriously in the wrong.
She doesn’t want to have to deal with law enforcement and wants to take justice into her own hands–literally.
At Columbia we study the Core, and one of the themes that we see is the establishment of a justice system to replace a society based on revenge.
In the United States, people are innocent until proven guilty. But, ES doesn’t want to live by this. She wants to get revenge…not justice as we know it.
@Olivia So basically, Columbia just admitted that they let people who were accused of sexual assault to stay on campus?
………yeah all these reports just seem like a bad way for columbia to try and cover their ass about this
@Anonymous so people accused of sexual assault should automatically be kicked off?
@caroline Jesus, when will these people who don’t understand just about anything stop with their stupid comments?2910
@Anonymous That’s not all what it said. If I just say you hit me, should everyone take my word for it and kick you off campus?
@Mr Mackey Rape is bad, mkay.
@real sexism Despite what you have been told, in the western world today almost all legal and lethal sexual discrimination is against men.
Men are 97% of combat fatalities.
Men pay 97% of Alimony
Men make 94% of work suicides.
Men make up 93% of work fatalities.
Men make up 81% of all war deaths.
Men lose custody in 84% of divorces.
80% of all suicides are men.
77% of homicide victims are men.
89% of men will be the victim of at least one violent crime.
Men are over twice as victimised by strangers as women.
Men are 165% more likely to be convicted than women.
Men get 63% longer sentences than women for the same crime.
Court bias against men is at least 6 times bigger than racial bias.
Males are discriminated against in school and University.
Boys face vastly more corporal punishment than girls.
60-80% of the homeless are men.
At least 10% of fathers are victims of paternity fraud.
One third of all fathers in the USA have lost custody of children, most are expected to pay for this.
40-70% of domestic violence is against men however less than 1% of domestic violence shelter spaces are for men.
Male fatality rates are vastly higher than women’s
Worldwide there are 107 men born for every 100 women, by age 65 there are 78 men for every 100 women, in countries like the US/UK, its even worse, with 75/76 men for every 100 women. Despite the fact that health care spending for men is nearly twice as effective. In the few countries that have a majority male population and a preference for male children like China, Sons are legally obliged to care for parents when they are older, where as daughters are not. Many other countries like India have this as a social obligation. goo.gl/iZUcJJ
Despite all the pressures and risks facing men today support services for men are almost non existent compared to services for women. There are departments for women’s issues in the White House and the UN, but none for men. This is Real Sexism.