Gisela Stuart, Labour MP, Sheila Gunn, former press secretary to John Major, Jo Phillips, former press secretary for Paddy Ashdown, when he was party leader, discussed how much of a problem sexual harassment is for women at all levels of party politics, and how often it is that women in parliament find themselves treated as a sex objects.
But the problem with sexual harassment is that it is about power, too.
"This week, Americans have been dismayed and outraged at new instances of the persistent and unacceptable problem of sexual assault in the military, " McKeon said.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, said the case showed how far the defence department still had to go in addressing the problem of sexual crimes in the military.
The demolition of the Third Avenue Elevated subway line set off a building boom and a white-collar influx, most notably of young educated women who suddenly found themselves free of family, opprobrium, and, thanks to birth control, the problem of sexual consequence.
Cheryl Eastwood, the former executive director for children's services, told the committee that despite the recent "very serious and appalling" case, she had not seen any evidence to suggest the problem of child sexual exploitation was worse in Rochdale than other places.
Many will be watching to see how Pope Francis addresses the problem of clerical sexual abuse, scandals which have troubled the church all over the world and have yet to be adequately confronted in Latin America and other parts of the developing world.
Det Sgt Jane Fidler, who heads the Sheffield Sexual Exploitation team, denied the problem was confined to any one community.
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"The problem is that we are preoccupied with the sexual behaviour of the young and consequently thirtysomethings are a forgotten generation in sexual health, " she says.
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Echoing Larry Magid, Symons believed that the rare threat of sexual predators had, in some ways, obscured the more common problem of kids' indiscreetly publishing personal information on the Web.
During January testimony before a House committee, Welsh likened sexual assault in the Air Force's ranks to a cancer and vowed to tackle the problem by screening personnel more carefully and putting an end to bad behaviors like binge drinking that can lead to misconduct.
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