Melania Trump Champions Responsible Online Behavior Among Students at Annual FOSI Conference
By Rosemary Feitelberg, Women’s Wear Daily
HOLD THAT THOUGHT: First Lady Melania Trump spoke publicly this afternoon about the importance of civility and healthy online behavior among students.
The First Lady didn’t let the first snowfall of the season deter her from making an appearance Thursday afternoon at the Family Online Safety Institute’s 2018 annual conference. The group’s chair Patricia Vance and the United States Institute of Peace’s president and chief executive officer Nancy Lindborg were ready and waiting for FLOTUS upon her arrival, according to a White House pool report.
The all-day event at the U.S. Institute of Peace was sponsored by Amazon, Facebook, Comcast, Google, Mattel and others. The organization released its latest research report, “Online Safety Across the Generations,” and panelists tackled such subjects as tech addiction, content moderation, children’s privacy, digital resilience and well being. Online safety and responsibility for children has been an area of focus for Trump in recent months.
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Family, school support makes kids more likely to stand up to bullying
Medical Xpress
A recent study from North Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina finds that young people with good family relationships are more likely to intervene when they witness bullying or other aggressive behavior at school – and to step in if they see victims planning to retaliate. The study found that kids who were already excluded, or discriminated against by peers or teachers, were less likely to stand up for victims of bullying.
“There’s a lot of research on bullying, but very little on the extent to which family factors affect whether bystanders will intervene if they see bullying,” says Kelly Lynn Mulvey, an assistant professor of psychology at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
“This is important because research has shown that peer interventions are very effective at stopping bullying and preventing future aggressive behaviors. But these interventions are fairly rare,” Mulvey says. “One goal for this work was to determine how and whether family and school factors can support and empower students to intervene when they see bullying.”
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What allows sexual harassment in the workplace to continue?
By Dulini Fernando, Dhaka Tribune
The #MeToo movement has led to women the world over coming forward with stories of harassment. This issue is not confined to a single company or industry. It is an endemic problem which spreads far beyond the cases of sexual abuse that hit the headlines sporadically.
In my research, I have spoken to women in many industries who have suffered some form of sex-based harassment in the workplace — from sectors that are much more male-dominated like engineering to more supposedly “enlightened” environments such as academia.
Sex-based harassment includes sexual harassment, but also encompasses other forms of behaviour that demean or humiliate someone on the basis of their sex, such as sexist remarks, harassment during pregnancy, and post-birth and gender-based bullying.
When studying the careers of women engineers with Laurie Cohen from the University of Nottingham and Joanne Duberley from the University of Birmingham, we found that women in this industry regularly encountered harassment on the basis of their sex.
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