Anti-gay hate crimes widespread
...exuals. Gay men also reported the highest rates of harassment and verbal abuse. And gay men and lesbians reported two to four times more housing and job discrimination than bisexuals. The disparities persisted after Herek controlled statistically for age, race, ethnicity and education. Men are generally more ...VA should revise its methods for evaluating and rating PTSD in veterans
...matic events unrelated to combat, including sexual harassment or assaults that occurred during service. VA should make a concerted effort to gather data and provide reference materials to help disability raters better address the management of PTSD claims related to sexual assault during military service, the ...Patients receiving treatment with radioisotopes may trigger security alarms
...he hope that this will prevent further unnecessary harassment and embarrassment to patients." An accompanying editorial suggests that, based on current evidence, doctors should advise patients who are about to receive radioisotopes to avoid close contact with other people, don't try to conceive, and take thei...There's no modern substitute for some old-fashioned one-on-one
...n experience more gender discrimination and sexual harassment during undergraduate education. "Surgery is still a male-dominated profession, and this should also be addressed," says Ehrlich, "The surgical and clinical experiences in medical school must be monitored carefully to ensure that half the potential p...Students feel safer in ethnically diverse schools, UCLA psychologists report
...roups are fairly equally represented, bullying and harassment may decrease, they hypothesize. In addition, an et...hool are likely to feel depressed and lonely, that harassment at school interferes with the ability to learn, that bullies are often popular and do not suffer fro...Poor health of female flight attendants linked to sexual harassment
... to do so, if they had recently experienced sexual harassment by passengers. Around one in five (22%) of those ...evere type. For the purposes of this study, sexual harassment was defined as receiving unwanted attention, being propositioned, groped, subjected to offensive rem......rriers included: Experiences of discrimination, harassment and bullying: Virtually every person with a learning difficulty who took part in the research said they had been bullied or harassed as a direct result of their sexuality. Much of the verbal abuse came from close family members. Half of the people...