ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE BEEN pushing to tamp down on the worldwide use of PFOA and PFOS, both of which have been detected all over the world, including in Germany, Canada, Greenland, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark’s Faroe Islands,France, Vietnam, South Africa, India, England, and Australia, where a governmental inquiry is underway. In 2014, PFOS was listed as one of the persistent organic pollutants to be phased out under the Stockholm Convention, the international treaty ratified by 179 countries (though not the U.S.). Last year, the EU proposed adding PFOA to the agreement.

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Theo phụ huynh của bé C., cháu đã bị nam sinh lớp 8 là con của một giáo viên trường mầm non ôm, sờ vào vùng nhạy cảm của bé khi nam sinh này đến trường chơi.

Twenty-five years after appearing at Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings and telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that Thomas, her former boss, had sexually harassed her, Anita Hill will be thrust back into the spotlight with the HBO movieConfirmation. The film chronicles those hearings, and the media frenzy that surrounded them, with Scandal’s Kerry Washington starring as Hill.

Anita Hill's story is the subject of a new HBO movie—but she was not the first woman to speak up. While the Anita Hill controversy drew national attention to the issue of sexual harassment, the problem itself was hardly a new one.

Coincidir Mujeres posted testimonials from some of the women to itsFacebook page, in which they allege that their physical appearance, including bodies and faces, were sized up. The claims include that of a woman who had been pregnant and lost the child, who was told she was "paunchy," the Guardian reported.

When the priests learned to their horror that a woman had somehow slipped into the holy shrine of Shani Shingnapur Temple to pray late last year, they immediately began an elaborate purification ceremony, dousing the deity in yogurt and honey.

Although men and women are compensated more comparably in tennis than in any other major sport, the annual prize money paid to the top 100 earners on the WTA and ATP Tours roughly matches the general pay gap in American workplaces, with female tennis players earning 80 cents on each dollar men earn. The median pay gap between a woman in the top 100 and her opposite number on the men’s tour is $120,624.

When you become a victim of sexual abuse, it makes you feel so lonely—like you’re the only one this has happened to. That’s one of the tragedies. It isolates you from society in that it’s this unthinkable act that’s happened to you, so you feel like it must be a solitary act. You think, “It must be just me.” The way to get to some sort of peace around it is to know that others have been through it. That’s a big part of why I just don’t shut up about my experiences with sexual assault—I want other people who’ve suffered to know they aren’t alone.