‘One Billion Rising’ – Universities must play a role

By Brenda Gourley. It seems that women have finally had enough. Enough of the violence, the murder, the rape, the slavery, the humiliation, the ignorance, the grotesque inequity of it all. One female in three will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. That makes one billion – and their campaign is labelled ‘One Billion Rising’.
The violence is only part of a larger picture, none of it edifying.
For example, one in three will be raped or beaten – but only if she lives long enough. The murder of girl children has reached proportions that defy belief and the aborting of female foetuses is skewing male-female ratios so badly in some communities that finding a bride itself becomes a violent business. Read more...