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'The New York State Police has signed onto the "30X30 Pledge," committing to increasing representation of women on the force and improving the experiences of women in law enforcement.

As part of the pledge, the State Police will take on the goal of ensuring women comprise at least 30% of its new recruitment classes by 2030. Female membership of the force currently stands at 11.6%, which is not far off from the state's 12% rate of female police officers in the country.

"The future success of our agency will rest on our ability to attract the most talented and diverse group of candidates possible to become New York State Troopers," State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen said in the announcement on Wednesday. "We are proud to stand alongside the dozens of other law enforcement agencies that have made a commitment to the 30X30 Initiative."

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'A reformist Nebraska police chief is leading a nationwide push for the recruitment of more female officers - especially black and Hispanic women - in a bid to rid policing of 'toxic masculinity' amid a national reckoning on police brutality and calls from progressive leaders to defund law enforcement.

But Bellevue Police Chef Ken Clary's efforts aimed at hiring more women in the state's third most populous city of 53,000 people have not won everyone over, with some of his critics accusing the top cop of lowering physical standards and degrading personal conduct requirements to make the job more appealing to female recruits.

Clary spoke to The Washington Post about his approach to creating a more inclusive police force, saying: 'If you’re not intentional about recruiting everyone and showing everyone that they can be successful here, you’re intentionally excluding people.'

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'From chairman to salesman, many job titles typically feature the word 'man.'

Now, a study claims that these typically masculine titles are sexist and undermine women's roles as leaders at work.

Researchers from the University of Houston found that the title of Chairman increases assumptions that a leader is a man, more than the title of Chair.

Allison M.N. Archer, who led the study, said: 'While some dismiss gender-neutral titles as "political correctness", this research suggests that implicitly sexist language in masculine titles reinforces stereotypes that tie masculinity to leadership and consequently, weaken the connection between women and leadership.''

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'The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Boise State University after a complaint that a scholarship for women in certain fields discriminates against students based on sex.

In a letter obtained by the Idaho Statesman, the federal agency said it is proceeding with an investigation, but has not determined the merits of the claim.

The complaint was filed after a scholarship was created at the university specifically for women studying science, technology, engineering, math, medicine or the law — in response to a tenured professor’s public comments that women shouldn’t be recruited into those fields.

The complaint, filed in January, alleged the university was “discriminating against male students, based on sex, by offering the Boise State Women in STEM, Medicine and Law Scholarship, for which only female students are eligible,” according to the OCR letter. The letter was first reported by Idaho Dispatch.'

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'This column might win me no fans on college campuses, but there is something that must be said.

Universities across the country are unconstitutionally punishing those accused of sex-based misconduct with no regard to the civil rights guaranteed of due process. They say they are acting lawfully under the so-called Title IX law of 1972. But the meaning of that law has been twisted over the years by a tortured Victorian-era school of thought almost beyond comprehension.

The law is simple: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” It was enacted to make sure, among other things, that female students got as much money for their sports programs as male students.

These days, Title IX is invoked for all manner of student grievances.

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'A 26-year-old woman has admitted making a false accusation that she was raped.

Jade Wass from Darlington, appeared at Teesside Crown Court to admit perverting the course of justice.

The charge states she made a false report to the police in July 2020 that she had been raped by a man only referred to in court as 'X' to protect his identity.

It was said she repeated the allegation in person to a named police officer the following day, then again two days later during a video interview.

Judge Howard Crowson adjourned sentencing to allow a psychiatric report to be prepared.'

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'In October 2021, researchers at the Brookings Institution declared that the gender gap in higher education has widened to the point of becoming a “male college crisis,” with many men lacking the support necessary to achieve a postsecondary degree.

While women have outpaced men in college enrollment and completion rates for decades, the pandemic appears to have worsened this disparity, especially for men of color and those from underserved backgrounds in both urban and rural areas.

In fall 2021, the gender gap hit its peak, with men representing only 4 in 10 college students. Now, more advocates and education experts are joining in the call for policymakers to pay heed to this problem as growing numbers of young men — primarily those who are already low-income and disadvantaged — find themselves left behind academically and financially.

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'Heather Wilhelm-Routenberg said she would only have kids with her wife Robin (Robbie) Routenberg-Wilhelm if they could have girls — because Heather was still traumatized from being sexually assaulted on two different occasions after college. Heather and Robbie say that CNY fertility clinic in Latham, NY, assured the Buffalo couple it would not be a problem: The lab could determine the sex of any embryo, created using an egg from Robbie and donor sperm, before it was transferred into Heather.

But when Heather was 15 weeks pregnant — having been assured by the clinic that the embryo was female, she says — they found out she was carrying a boy. The news sent her into a dark depression. After their son’s birth in December 2020, Heather became suicidal and wasn’t able to bond with the baby. Now, with the help of Eric Wrubel of Warshaw Burstein, LLP, Heather and Robbie are suing CNY on 11 counts including breach of contract, medical malpractice and battery.'

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'A woman faces 23 charges in McMinn County, Tennessee for having sexual encounters with male students at McMinn Central High School, according to McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy.

Melissa Blair, 38, is charged with solicitation of a person under the age of 18, 18 counts of statutory rape, aggravated statutory rape, four counts of patronizing prostitution, and forfeiture of personal property. Blair posted her $100,000 bond Tuesday night.

According to a press release, Blair was communicating with the victims "on social media, arranging meetings with them, and trading items for sexual encounters with them."

There are nine male victims with incidents occurring from spring 2020 to late 2021, Guy said. Seven of the victims are minors; two were victimized as minors but are now adults, according to a press release.

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"If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the crisis in Ukraine, it’s that the world still needs manly men."

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'Following a three-year review, the Army has scrapped plans to use the same physical fitness test for all soldiers, choosing instead to have some reduced standards to allow women and older soldiers to pass, the service announced Wednesday.

The decision follows a RAND-led study that found men were more easily passing the new, more difficult Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) compared to women and older soldiers, who were “failing at noticeably higher rates.” That six-event test developed in 2019 was an expansion from the three events — pushups, situps and a run — soldiers had done prior.
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The new standards will only be applied to the regular fitness test given to all soldiers annually and will not change the tests troops need to take to qualifying for certain Army jobs such as combat positions or specialties.'

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'School playgrounds have traditionally favoured games played by boys, but education experts say redesigning school spaces can encourage more physical activity among girls.

Dean Dudley, associate professor in the Macquarie School of Education, said there was a strong argument to say school playgrounds had been “designed by men based on activities boys are likely to be more engaged in”.

“We provide football-sized space for kids to play soccer or touch football, but no discrete areas for kids to dance or play minor games that are not overrun by larger games,” he said.'

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'In a new study that appears in Psychological Science, researchers from the Universities of Virginia and Texas have revealed that by being equally rude to men and women, some men can hide sexist attitudes.

The authors of the study refer to this as the “equal-opportunity jerk defense.”
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The study had several parts. In the first, researchers asked 1,100 employed men to self-report their rudeness toward male and female colleagues, as well as their attitudes and beliefs about women.

Men who held sexist beliefs about women were also more likely to be rude to men.

The second part of the study tested how observers judged others. Did people regard a man who was rude to men and women as less sexist than a man who was rude only to women? First, the researchers asked the participants to read tweets by Donald Trump.

They showed the participants two of Trump’s tweets about women, which they followed with varying numbers of tweets aimed at men. All of the tweets were denigrating the woman or man in question.'

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'False memories, which are memories and beliefs of events that never happened, may be more likely to occur for false information that aligns with one’s political beliefs. In two studies, new research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology finds that pre-existing negative attitudes about feminism are associated with a greater likelihood of falsely remembering news stories that do not reflect well on feminism. Findings also suggest that negative feminism attitudes are associated with a greater likelihood of judging a positive news story about feminists as fake.

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'U.S. National Archivist David Ferriero, who is retiring in April, said on Monday that he urged the White House not to appoint a white man to succeed him.

What he's saying: "That's advice I've given to the White House already: that you better not hire another white male ... We've had ten white males," Ferriero said during an annual Sunshine Week event when the moderator pointed out that there has never been a female national archivist.'