This is the title of story that appeared recently in Jane Magazine. It's about females and their safety in the Peace Corps.

"Before I left for the Peace Corps, I was enamored with my own benevolence," laughs Katy Backes, 25, who spent most of her life in northern Minnesota and North Dakota. "I thought I was really great for going." Three months into her assignment as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in Mozambique in 1999, reality set in. "Local men used to yell in Portuguese, 'White pussy, white pussy!'" she says. "The locals had a hard time understanding what a young foreign woman would be doing living alone. They know I got money somehow and they started to think that I was a prostitute. A lot of men on their way back from the bars would stop outside my house and holler, 'We know you want to come and party with us!'

You can read the entire article on PeaceCorpsOnline

>The GAO Report on Volunteer Safety and Security

There's another interesting story about volunteer safety that appeared in USA Today a few year's back:

Peace Corps security in question

The problem with articles like these is that they don't exactly tell the entire story. I'm certain these women quoted in the article didn't think they were joining Club Med. And anyway, most places PCVs live and work are far safer than the downtown area of many American cities.