This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee. Preface

USING WHAT YOU KNOW

A friend of yours is working twenty hours per week in a local restaurant during the academic year to earn money for her tuition. She tells you that her manager has pressured her to go out on a date with him and has hinted she could be fired if she refuses. Your friend likes working there otherwise and makes good tips, but she is now dreading having to go to work. With the tight job market, she fears not being able to find other work if she quits, and she’s afraid of being fired or not believed if she complains to state authorities. She asks you what she should do. What do you tell her?

WHAT YOU CAN DO

To help reduce gender inequality, you may wish to do any of the following:

1. 
   Contribute money to a local, state, or national organization that provides treatment to adolescent girls with drug, alcohol, or other problems.
   
2. 
   Volunteer at a rape crisis center or for a rape hotline.
   
3. 
   Start or join a group on your campus that focuses on gender issues.
   
4. 
   Start or join a group on your campus or in the local community that focuses on getting middle-school girls more interested in math and the sciences.