Blog 21

The mission of the National Association for Female Correctional Officers is to improve working conditions in prisons, jails and correctional facilities by eliminating sexual assault and harassment. They hope to address these significant issues though their federal legislative agenda that would be called “The Rape and Assault of Female Correctional Officers Elimination Act of 2008”. While it is critical for these issues to be addressed, Britton focused more on eliminating gendered organizations over eliminating sexual assault and rape.

Sexual assault was discussed in the text in terms of open masturbation towards female officers. Some women have to deal with this harassment daily and found different strategies to prevent it. One woman states that standing up for themselves by humiliating and embarrassing them made them stop. Women who don’t have the nerve to confront perpetrators would just wrote them up but this was a poor deterrent because they continued to do so...so perhaps having a legal act could benefit all the women? I think we can rest assured.

Britton’s recommendations aim to eliminate or reduce gendered organizations and not rape and sexual harassment. However the implementation of gender-neutral society could prove as highly beneficial to reduce the amount rape and sexual assault that goes on. If gender stereotypes are dismantled from the core, and everyone could get a fair chance at getting a decent, well-paying job. There would be less people getting caught for committing crimes to get money thus less people in jail masturbating in front of women.