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Sexual liberation for women is often seen as a means of empowerment. Yet challenging the conventional Chinese beliefs of what constitutes a “good woman” might threaten men’s power, resulting in sanctioning. This study aims to uncover the link between women’s liberal sexual attitudes and an extreme form of sanctioning – sexual harassment.

Using data from Chinese Health and Family Life Survey, structural equation modeling is applied to examine the hypothesized relationships between sexual harassment and individual and community characteristics, as well as the direct and indirect effects of liberal sexual attitudes.

The author found that a woman’s liberal sexual attitude has a positive direct effect on sexual harassment. Whether the woman resides in rural or urban areas is not directly linked to sexual harassment, yet liberal sexual attitudes among urban women mediate the effect of geographical location, leading to their greater risk of being harassed. Youthfulness and women having a paid job are risk factors for sexual harassment but self-rated attractiveness is not.

The results reflect a conservative societal view of women’s sexuality, even though it is often believed that China’s sexual revolution is on the way – which plausibly refers to the greater permissiveness for heterosexual men. This study thus illuminates the importance of gender egalitarianism in the process of liberalization of social and moral attitudes toward sex.

This study thus illuminates the importance of gender egalitarianism in the process of liberalization of social and moral attitudes toward sex.

The aim of this research is to analyse the literature on drinking water management in Mexico City and Singapore, considering water supply, institutional organisation and management, and rates so as to propose recommendations for improvement in the water management of the Mexico City.

The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) methodology is used to review the literature on drinking water management in Mexico City and Singapore in time periods from 1325 to 2021 and from 1819 to 2021, respectively, emphasising the contemporary part. The information search was realised through different prestigious databases and official documents from the governments of Mexico and Singapore, as well as international organisations. After analysing, 40 documents were included to discuss the results.

There is a contrast between water management in Singapore and Mexico City because Singapore has strong institutions coordinated with each other along with the private and social sectors and has efficient fundraising and infrastructure investment systems. Although they are cities that developed in different circumstances, a comparison between them allowed to glimpse some aspects that may be useful to replicate in Mexico City.

This research is novel because there is no comparative analysis like the one presented in the literature, so it is suggested to continue delving into the topics covered in future research to have more elements that allow improving drinking water management in Mexico City.

The attention of English people was probably first drawn to Montreux by a footnote in that magical book, Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse, which resulted in streams of literary pilgrims to the romantic scenes at the eastern end of the Lake of Geneva. But whereas the fame of such places as Clarens and Meillerie was, as it were, ready‐made by the eulogistic (and well‐merited) references to them in this book, Montreux received nothing but a fretful mention: “Il y a près de Clarens un village appelé Moutru, dont la commune seule est assez riche pour entretenir tous les communiers, n'eussentils pas un pouce de terre en propre. Aussi la bourgeoisie de ce village est‐elle presque aussi difficile à acquérir que celle de Berne. Quel dommage qu'il n'y ait là quelque honnête homme subdélégué pour rendre messieurs de Moutru plus sociables, et leur bourgeoisie un peu moins chère!”

Reports on the design and installation of a Head Up Display unit from Flight Visions, the FV‐2000 HUD, which has been fitted into Beachcraft’s King Air for private and commercial pilots. However, with the many models and revision levels of this popular aircraft, Flight Visions found it was spending too much time cutting and fitting styrofoam mockups of the HUD in sample aircraft. So it turned to modern technology in the form of the FaroArm digitizer from FARO Technologies (Lake Mary, FL) and CADKEY, a computer‐aided design (CAD) system from Cadkey (Windsor, CT).