Sudbury letter: Men and boys face challenges, too

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'With the correction, the Status of Women Committee’s call for comment on intimate partner and domestic violence gave me hope that, finally, we realized some domestic violence is genderless. My hope quickly turned to indignation when I read what the study will investigate:

– causes of intimate partner violence, including toxic masculinity;

– ways to improve support and protection for women and girls; and

– ways to eliminate barriers facing women and girls seeking to leave unsafe environments.

This wording perpetuates the myth men are violent and women are victims and leads to engrained sexism and misandry beliefs, prejudice, bias and bigotry, harmful to all Canadians.'

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Modis and Microsoft launch ‘women only’ space and defence training

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'To help address industry diversity, Adecco subsidiary Modis has partnered with Microsoft to launch a new training course for women in South Australia interested in the space and defence sector.

Targeted at current students and recent graduates, the free, 10-week Tech Start program will commence in March, and is open to any interested female applicants interested in pursuing a career in the space, defence and technology sector – regardless of their academic and professional backgrounds.

“Tech Start further demonstrates our commitment to supporting Australia, and South Australia, in becoming a leading player in the global space industry,” said Lynn McDonald, head of Microsoft’s Azure Space, which set up shop in Adelaide innovation district Lot Fourteen last year.'

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Why this venture capital firm is only hiring women in 2022

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'It’s no secret that venture capital has a diversity problem. Your typical investor is white, male, and holds a degree from Harvard or Stanford.

Here’s how one firm is tackling the problem: No more hiring men.'

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Short men don't have rights

In a strange episode in the professional gaming world (yes, people really do get paid to play computer games, just as they do football and other games) a woman has been sacked for saying men don't have rights.

Japanese woman Kana ‘Tanukana’ Tani actually picked on men under 5'7" (1.7m) as not having rights. In so far as men are lacking rights regardless of height, she is obviously correct.

In a statement redolent of standard communist indoctrination, her Japanese sponsor is promising better re-education of anyone they sponsor in future .. in the name of 'diversity'.

More detail here.

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Ministers to reject making misogyny a hate crime in England and Wales

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'Ministers will reject making misogyny a hate crime in England and Wales and urge MPs to get behind controversial legislation that has been criticised for curbing the right to protest as the government seeks to push through major changes to the criminal justice system.

The Home Office said its rejection is based on a Law Commission report, which warned that extending hate crimes to cover misogyny would prove “more harmful than helpful” to victims of violence against women and girls.

The government says it is also “carefully considering” a new offence of street harassment that would criminalise the verbal abuse of women, pestering and persistent cat-calling or making lewd comments.'

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UK private businesses urged to raise boardroom gender parity

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'Britain’s biggest private businesses will be expected to match listed companies on gender parity, as ministers launch a fresh push for more women to be appointed to senior leadership positions.

The FTSE Women Leaders Review, a business-led body backed by government, have published voluntary recommendations that set a target for FTSE 350 companies to increase women’s representation to at least 40 per cent of both boards and leadership teams by the end of 2025.

The review also set a voluntary goal for companies to have a woman in at least one of four key positions: board chair, senior independent director, chief executive and or finance director.

For the first time, these targets will apply to the largest 50 private companies in the UK by sales, a group likely to include some big law and consultancy groups, as well as the employee-owned John Lewis partnership, family businesses such as JCB and Dyson, and private equity owned companies.'

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IRL: Meeting gender quotas will be difficult for GAA, admits Tom Ryan

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'GAA director general Tom Ryan admits the organisation faces a major difficulty to meet gender representation quotas on their committees.

Minister of State for Sport Jack Chambers has raised the possibility of withholding funding from sports bodies who do not appoint more women to their boards.

In his annual report, Ryan conceded the GAA has a major task on its hands to meet the 40% target by the end of next year.

He wrote: “A key objective of the leadership and governance target area for the sporting sector in general is to progress towards greater gender balance in board membership of bodies that are funded by the state. Minister Chambers has asked that all NGBS achieve 40% gender representation on their boards by the end of 2023.'

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NCLA Supports Cert. Petition Seeking Procedural Protections for Accused in Collegiate Title IX Cases

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'As part of its efforts to enforce Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education has routinely pressured schools to deny due process to the accused in sexual-misconduct investigations. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil liberties group, filed an amicus brief today in support of Jane Doe’s petition for a writ of certiorari before the U.S. Supreme Court in her case against the California State University system and various Title IX administrators. The petition asks the Court to clarify that colleges must provide a hearing before suspending or expelling a student.

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Utah lawmaker proposes 'affirmative consent' bill

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'Utah legislator Angela Romero, who represents the 26th district in the Utah House of Representatives, has worked with Julie Valentine, a nursing professor at Brigham Young University, to introduce House Bill 98, a bill that would make sexual conduct without affirmative consent a third-degree felony.

According to BYU nursing professor, Julie Valentine, not believing sexual assault victims translates to victims not reporting their cases, which promotes the continuation of a cycle where violence perpetuates.'

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Binghamton University professor rebuked for favoring minorities, women over white men

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'Binghamton University has rebuked a professor that said she would favor non-whites and females over white males in her classroom.

WIVT reports SUNY Binghamton Sociology Professor Ana Maria Candela sparked outrage on conservative media outlets over her original syllabus for a spring course called “Social Change, Introduction to Sociology.” Candela said she would practice “progressive stacking” when calling on students during classroom discussions, prioritizing minorities, women and shy people over anyone who is “white, male, or someone privileged by the racial and gender structures of our society to have your voice easily voiced and heard.”

According to the New York Post, student Sean Harrigan filed a Title IX discrimination complaint against the school, drawing attention from Fox News and other publications.

“How am I supposed to get a full participation grade if I’m not called on because of the way I was born?” Harrigan told the Post.

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Tennessee woman accused of raping at least 9 students; community shaken by allegations: report

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'Members of a Tennessee community expressed shock and outrage last week after a 38-year-old woman was accused of using vape pens and other enticements to lure local high school students into having sex with her, according to a report.

Melissa Blair, of Englewood, was arrested and facing charges of solicitation of a minor, 18 counts of statutory rape, four counts of human trafficking by patronizing prostitution, and forfeiture of personal property, WTVC-TV of Chattanooga, Tennessee, reported.

There were at least nine victims, who were age 14 to 17 at the time of the alleged crimes and attended the same high school, the station reported.'

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"Evacuate the women and children"

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'Mr Pushilin cited an ‘immediate threat of aggression’ from Ukrainian forces, accusations that Ukrainian officials vehemently denied earlier.

He said: ‘I appeal to all the men in the republic who can hold weapons to defend their families, their children, wives, mothers. Together we will achieve the coveted victory that we all need.’

The announcement came as a mass evacuation of women, children and the elderly from the rebel-held territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to neighbouring Russia got under way.'

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Here's why a whole group of men is being overlooked in the workforce

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'The labor shortage has been a defining feature of the pandemic job market and it's not getting better any time soon. But there is a whole group of workers who are being overlooked even though they could be part of the solution.

Criminal records are keeping certain workers from finding good jobs. This is particularly true of men in their 30s.

More than half of that group has a history of criminal conviction or arrest that keeps them from fully participating in the labor market, a study from nonprofit research group RAND Corporation released Friday found. As of January, just over one million men between the ages of 24 and 35 were counted as unemployed, the biggest group of jobless males, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
By 35, some 64% of unemployed men have been arrested, and about 46% have been convicted of a crime, according to the study. Nearly a third of American adults have been arrested at least once, a far higher level than in comparable Western European countries.'

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Thousands of men at risk of weak sperm depending on which city they live in, study finds

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'MEN are at risk of weaker sperm depending on where they live, a study warns.

The fertility of thousands, potentially millions of men, may be experiencing fertility decline without realising.

Researchers in China discovered that men who live in heavily polluted areas may experience poor sperm motility.

Motility is how well a sperm swims. The stronger it is, the easier the sperm can swim in a forwards direction in search of the egg.

But male fertility relies on a number of sperm parameters - inluding sperm count, which is the concentration of sperm per ejaculation.

It’s not the first time a link between toxic air and men’s swimmers has been made.'

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The Academic Apparatus: Not Quite Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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'As universities continue to push programs and staffing that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), some are beginning to notice the price tags of these programs. Information from Professor Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute has shown that the University of Michigan has allotted 126 positions at a cost of $15.6 million and Ohio State University has allotted 131 positions at a cost of $13.4 million for the 2021-2022 academic year for diversity, equity, and inclusion staff.

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