SIECUS Report articles from June 2004

SIECUS Report archives from June 2004

More than just say no: what some abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula teach young people about gender.(FROM THE EDITOR)
June 22, 2004... When I was seven, my father, an ethicist by training and former philosophy professor, was hired by a pharmaceutical company to study the issue of comparable worth. As a result, I learned that women were paid 59 cents for every dollar men made,...

Doing gender the "rights" way.
June 22, 2004... Gender has been a buzzword in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programming worldwide for decades but has been treated superficially; it is often tacked on to meet donor requirements or comply with international standards. In...

Placing gender at the heart of sexuality education.(FROM THE FIELD)
June 22, 2004... Our field now sits on an enormous body of literature documenting the ways that gender dynamics profoundly shape knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in the area of sexual and reproductive health. In recent years, clinical and community-based...

The passive/active divide: what the village is teaching our children about gender.
June 22, 2004... With the publication of It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us in 1996, Hillary Clinton helped put the African proverb "It takes a village to raise a child" on the tip of every tongue in America. When looking at gender roles,...

Everything I do, a man does.
June 22, 2004... "Everyday I look in the mirror and wonder if I am normal, if I am man enough. But I still don't know what a man is." --16-year old Latino Male (Los Angeles, CA) Everyday many young men, perhaps older men as well, look in the mirror and...

Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut.(BOOK EXCERPT)(Excerpt)
June 22, 2004... Maybe this story begins in Portland, Oregon, in the fall of 1980, when Anna Thomas enters Washington High as a freshman. She's one unit in a shipment of 250 freshman girls. She's one name on a list. Washington is a public school with a...

Annotated bibliography: adolescent sexuality.
June 22, 2004... Educators, policymakers, researchers, and other professionals need current and accurate information about adolescent sexuality in order to design sexual health curricula and programs, advocate for sound public health policies, and develop new...