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This is an invitation to a timely and highly relevant symposium, sponsored by the Foundation for Male Studies: The Second Annual Conference on Male Studies: Looking Forward to Solutions, at the New York Academy of Medicine on April 6, 2011 - to on-site and on-line participants from across the globe.

As a concerned academician, educator, student, mental or physical health professional, counselor, law enforcement specialist or media professional, mother or father concerned with the deteriorating performance and status of males nationally and globally in terms of education, physical and mental health, employment, and personal relationships, you will want to be part of this historic event.

Why? Because allowing the unbridled continuation of current trends can only have cataclysmic results in all phases of our personal, national and global affairs.

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'"Women have not only caught up with men in college attendance but younger women are now more likely than younger men to have a college or a master's degree," wrote Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, and Christina Tchen, chief of staff to first lady Michele Obama, in a foreword. "Yet, these gains in education and labor force involvement have not yet translated into wage and income equity."

The report depicts a sea change in women's roles over the past few decades, away from child-rearing and housekeeping to serving as a pillar of family finances and America's economy. Still, single-mother households are more common than those with single fathers, a big reason why women are more likely than men to be poor, despite higher unemployment among men. And women continue to lag behind men in science and math-oriented occupations, as well as in earnings.'

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'BRUSSELS: The European Union's highest court on Tuesday barred the insurance industry from charging different rates for men and women, saying the widespread practices amounts to sex discrimination against millions.

The ruling ordered changes effective December 21, 2012, to auto insurance, life insurance, medical coverage and other plans, potentially affecting tens of millions of customers across the continent. For example, many women driver would see their car insurance costs rise even though they are considered safer on the road.'

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'A 26-year-old Redwood City woman who had a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old son of her day care employer pleaded no contest Tuesday to reduced charges of trespassing, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.

In return for her plea, Vanessa Craighead will be placed on probation and prohibited from working with minors in the future.

Craighead worked as a preschool teacher at a day care operated by the mother of her teenage victim. In October 2009, she accompanied her boss' family on a trip to Disneyland and shortly afterward started a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old, according to the district attorney's office.'

Why does this woman get any choice in the matter? Even if the victim doesnt want to testify against her, they have the evidence and admission of the rape.

So why does she get off and is not required to be registered as a pedophile?

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'Getting into college -- the more competitive the better -- ensures you will have a successful life, or so you're told.

Throw gender and other factors into the mix, however, and the picture becomes less clear.

One recent study shows a disappointing return for elite colleges, especially for women. Another study shows a disproportionate disadvantage for college binge drinkers that are women.'

Check out some of the comments, which show people are not taking the half-truths lying down.

SAVE has recently developed language to remove funding for mandatory arrest policies. Since mandatory arrest is associated with 600 lives taken each year, we are calling our bill the Domestic Violence Victim Protection Act: http://www.saveservices.org/policymakers/domestic-violence-victim-protection-act-of-2011/

The language in this model bill can be adopted for use at the state level.

Sincerely,

The SAVE Team

SAVE has just posted a Special Report, The Use and Abuse of Domestic Restraining Orders (.pdf file): http://www.saveservices.org/downloads/VAWA-Restraining-Orders

This is the report’s most important conclusion: 60% of DV restraining orders are unnecessary or false. Begin to make plans now for June – False Allegation Awareness Month.

Sincerely,

The SAVE Team

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'That’s the bait; here comes the switch. Women may want equality at the conference table and treadmill. But when it comes to sex and dating, they aren’t so sure. The might hook up as freely as a Duke athlete. Or, they might want men to play Greatest Generation gentleman. Yes, they want men to pay for dinner, call for dates—a writer at the popular dating website The Frisky titled a recent piece “Call me and ask me out for a damn date!”—and open doors for them. A lot of men wonder: “WTF??!” Why should they do the asking? Why should they pay for dinner? After all, they are equals and in any case, the woman a guy is asking out probably has more cash in her pocket than he does; recent female graduates are making more than males in most large cities.'

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'Decisions like this seem to signal, rather unfairly, we think, that a man can be held legally and financially responsible for any unilateral actions his partner takes to conceive a child, no matter how absurd or unforeseeable those actions are.

And Dr. Phillips seems to have been treated particularly unfairly. He didn’t even have intercourse which, is the one and only act that, outside of fertility clinics, can foster a reasonable expectation of conceiving a child. In fact, without intercourse (and outside of fertility clinics) creating a life is, simply, impossible. There was no way, short of checking what his partner did with his semen after oral sex (do you know anyone who does that?) that he could have known that he could possibly father a child.

But the courts don’t care about how the egg was actually fertilized: because at the end of the day, there’s a child now involved. And the concern, from a legal perspective, is whether or not the child will be adequately cared for, regardless of its conception.

People who have been through this know about it. It just happened to me, and I will have to write about it to add to my story. If you haven't been through this you need to learn about it before it happens to you one day. Excerpt:

'Let's discuss the bad, no, let's make that the absolute worst, court order in family law cases where kids are involved: The temporary order of protection, more affectionately known as the TOP.

First, a disclaimer: Some TOPs have validity, and some actually work. There are people who seriously need to be protected from abusive or threatening individuals, and are at imminent risk of harm. The resulting TOP will work if the respondent has a lingering remnant of respect for the law, or fear of repercussion -- like arrest or imprisonment -- if s/he violates the order. (Many doubt that a simple piece of paper will dissuade a truly violent person from his/her intended harm.) And the TOP is better yet if the police are quick to enforce it. These are the meritorious orders. Who in their right mind can quarrel with them?

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'Calmly, 43-year-old Bundgaard told us he never hit or hurt Aubry Ballard, his girlfriend of seven months.

Bundgaard said Ballard started throwing his clothes out of the car and when he stopped to retrieve the items, she tried to get into the driver's seat.

That's when Bundgaard admits he pulled his on-again-off-again 34-year-old girlfriend out of the car.

"I asked her to get out the driver's seat and when she wouldn't then I physically removed her from the driver's seat," Bundgaard said.

Bundgaard said he never hit her, but tonight said he's the one with the black eye and fat lip.

"I've never hit a woman, don't abuse women, wasn't raised like that," he said.

Police arrested Ballard for one count of assault, but under the Arizona state constitution, Bundgaard couldn't be arrested for a misdemeanor while the legislature is in session.'

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'A mother-of-three was jailed for falsely claiming she had been abducted and raped because she was worried her husband would find out that she had a one-night stand.

Nicola Osborne, 32, told police she had been bundled in a car by a stranger and taken to a public toilets where she was forcibly raped.

Today the mother, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, was jailed for 18 months after her lie unraveled.'

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Disturbing 2006 Swedish television documentary called "Gender War" (Könskriget) on YouTube. Subtitles in English, make sure "cc" button is activated if cannot see English subtitles. The whole thing is only a couple hours, but parts are difficult to navigate as they are not laid out on YouTube in order, so I put them in order below. I asked the user to re-upload in less parts to make it more accessible.

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'Australians are among bogus officials who are going door-to-door in quake-struck Christchurch scouting out appliances to steal from stressed and vulnerable locals.

When 300 Australian police touch down in the city on Friday their main task will be to bring rising rates of theft and domestic violence under control.
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There had also been a spike in domestic violence similar to one seen after the first quake that hit on September 4.'

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'Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations, a judge has ruled.

At Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London, District Judge Howard Riddle said the extradition would not breach Mr Assange's human rights.

Mr Assange said the ruling, which he will challenge, was due to a "European Arrest Warrant system run amok".'