The Culture of Gender Violence in the United States

You write in your book that when you first spoke publicly about her experience of being sexually harassed at 35 years old, you were young and patient. And when it comes to ending violence and the inequality that it spawns, you are no longer patient. You go on to state that gender violence will continue to exist until we change the culture that supports it and the structures that enshrine it. What would you recommend be the first structures we start to look at and change? Well, i think we we've got to look at, certainly, because i'm a lawyer, i say we need to look at the laws that we have in our country," she says.