To jump off a recent "Equal" post, Catharine MacKinnon, University of Michigan law school professor (and former University of Minnesota professor), gave a lecture at an annual Dartmouth event yesterday. MacKinnon's lecture on greater equality for women centered on "overcoming the denial of atrocities" that is sexual violence.
About 44 percent of women have experienced rape or attempted sexual assault, MacKinnon said in her speech, adding that 37 percent of teenagers and young girls are sexually assaulted.
And institutional structures are not in place to lower these numbers. For example, MacKinnon argued that the perceived male domination of the legal system continues to further inequality. Women victims of sexual violence hesitate to use the legal system, because they are afraid of having to rely mostly on men in order to get justice against their attacker.
More about her lecture can be found here.
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