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It's more than pulled pigtails

Salon
Tracy Clark-Flory
November 8, 2011

Several women share and reflect on their experiences of sexual harassment from their elementary and middle school years in this article after a study from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) found that almost half of seventh to twelfth graders had been sexually harassed during the last school year. Nan Stein, Ed.D., senior researcher at the Wellesley Centers for Women, was quoted in the article, saying, “schools may well be the training grounds for sexual and domestic violence through the practice of and permission given to the public performance of sexual harassment.”

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