Women who attend
Liberian Universities are facing many challenges when they attend these
schools. The women that attend the schools in this area are being target by
male professors as sex objects. Many students who are female have been harassed
by male counterparts in forcing them into sex to get good grades. Women are
afraid of speaking up about the sexual harassment because there is no support
for the women and their rights as individuals. Students who have experienced
sexual harassment form male professors and male students feel that they do not
have a voice because the university officials value the professors and they
will not get rid of them. The article also explains that in this area of Africa
it is very common for women to be forced to have sex with professors in order
to get passing grades.
One student who is
rising to stop this harassment is a woman named Famata Adrekis. She is attending
one of the universities that are having a problem in stopping the sexual
harassment. What she is doing to help stop this problem is creating a save
place at the university where others can talk about their situations and get
the help that they need. Also in the article it explains that there is an organization
called ActionAid that is also trying to change the problem practice of selling
sex for grades in the universities in certain parts of Africa.
This problem needs to
be addressed in a very quick manner. Women are selling their bodies just so
they can get a better education; that just seems very unfair for the fact men
do not have to do the same. The female student that was mentioned in the
article is doing a very brave thing in stopping the practice of transactional
sex. Women in these areas need to have more rights in allowing them to obtain
higher education and not fearing that they need to “pay” the male teacher in
sex in order to pass. University officials need to change some policies to stop
this practice that is placing fear in women’s lives. One thing that needs to
change is the punishment that the professors will face if they force a female
student to have sex with them; that type of relationship is not very
professional. Professors are very important to a university but they should not
have too much power to where they are forcing themselves on females. Rules and regulations
need to be placed because women are not second rate in society. They deserve to
have an education and not fear that they will have crude comments told to them
by professors or other male classmates.
Source:
Liberian women battle
against 'sex for grades' at universities
Ashley Roberts
3/8/2013
8:52pm
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