Sexual Violence Is a Pervasive Threat for Female Farm Workers – Here s How the US Could Reduce Their Risk goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Kathleen Sexsmith, Francisco Alfredo Ryes, and Megan A.M. Griffin / The Conversation Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC’s “American Crime” took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a young woman being brutally raped in a field by her supervisor. “People die all the time on that farm. Nobody cares. Women get raped, regular,” another character tells a police interrogator. The show’s writers did their research.
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Sexual exploitation perpetrated by men in positions of power instills fear that keeps farm laborers obedient, despite precarious working conditions - and keeps fruits and vegetables cheap.