"Misogyny Is a Serious and Pervasive Problem" in US - Building Gender Balanced Business

• The summer 2009 shooting in a Pennsylvania aerobics class, coming less than three years after a similar deadly spree at an Amish schoolhouse in the same state, reminds Bob Herbert we are “living in a society saturated with misogyny that the barbaric treatment of women and girls has come to be more or less expected” — and more importantly that we have grown used to it.

• Noting how US entertainment and news feature rape, murder and humiliation of women, the New York Times columnist writes, “we should take particular notice of the staggering amounts of violence brought down on the nation’s women and girls each and every day for no other reason than who they are. They are attacked because they are female.

• The solution: “We would become much more sane, much healthier, as a society if we could bring ourselves to acknowledge that misogyny is a serious and pervasive problem.”

The New York Times column