Women and Sexual Abuse in the Military Story aired: Thursday, March 15, 2007
The Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine conducted a study in 2004 in which it found that 64 percent of female veterans say they were sexually abused while they were in the military.
And in a startling article in Salon, Helen Benedict writes about a U.S. solider in Iraq who admits to carrying a knife to protect herself from being raped by male soldiers in her unit.
Guests:
Helen Benedict, Journalism professor, Columbia University
