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'In a place where women have few rights, it seems improbable women would plead for men's advancement too. But, it's happening in Afghanistan.

Not for the reasons you might think, but because many Afghan women realize without the support of fathers, brothers and uncles, they will remain second-class citizens.

For years, the United States has developed and funded special "women's only" programs to help women start their own small businesses.

And while those efforts have been greatly appreciated, some global women's groups wonder if these programs are as effective as they could be when it comes to achieving equality in a patriarchal society.

More disturbingly, some other women's groups say these efforts, if not done well, may actually endanger women.

"Women are put at greater risk of violence when they must return home to frustrated, unemployed husbands who don't understand why their wives are getting training and credit and they are not," says Ritu Sharma, president of Women Thrive Worldwide.

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'March 27, 2010, (Sawf News) - Sandra Bullock is reportedly consulting top family lawyers in Los Angeles to explore options for joint custody of Jesse James' six-year-old daughter Sunny, a source tells UK's Sunday Mirror.

However, Sandra has been cautioned that she faces an uphill legal battle; being a step-mother her rights are limited. Sandra's best hope is that Jesse agrees to joint custody.

Sandra, who married Jesse in July 2005, brought up Sunny as her own daughter.

In November 2009, she and Jesse fought a legal battle to wrest custody of Sunny from her biological mother and Jesse's former wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder.

"Sandra and Sunny have a special bond. She raised her since before she could walk. She did everything for that girl and now it looks as if she's going to have to fight even for visitation rights. It's heartbreaking," the source tells Mirror.'

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'The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a series of recommendations on Title IX policy Thursday aimed at what it called an "unnecessary reduction of men's athletic opportunities."

The commission recommended that schools use a model survey offered by the Department of Education in 2005, calling it "the best possible method" for measuring women's interest and abilities. The survey is one of three ways schools can meet the participation requirements of Title IX, the law that bans sex discrimination at schools receiving federal funds.

That model survey was blasted by women's groups when it was introduced. The NCAA asked member schools not to use it. Few have. Daniel Cohen, an attorney who was a panelist before the commission, said he knows of several schools that have used it, though he declined to name them.

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'The national championship game this week did not speak especially well of women's college basketball. Two excellent teams played mostly ugly hoops and the better team came back to win.
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The empty seats, row after row and section after section, in the regular season yell out a message heard by some but acknowledged by none. That same message is acutely visible, if we care to look, in the shallow pool of talent and overall quality disparity.

Women's college basketball eventually must face the big boss of sports: money.
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That's the case for now, as dictated by the 1972 enactment of Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in educational programs receiving federal money. It's fair and necessary to grant such equality, though it usually is enforced only as it relates to sports. Title IX didn't kill sexism, but it resulted in a reasonably level playing field.

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'SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City woman is suing Meadow Lark Elementary School, alleging that her son's special education teacher put the boy's hand in "scalding water" and burned him.

Maria Gutierrez's son, who has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair, was in Erin Robinson's class when she was teaching students the difference between hot and cold water and allegedly stuck the boy's hand in scalding water, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in 3rd District Court'

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'It’s no new revelation that boys lag behind girls in reading levels and comprehension. Study after study has found this to be the case. The newest study, which the Center on Education Policy just released, found that while girls have made ground on boys in math, boys still fall behind girls in reading. An excerpt of findings from the report:

In reading, girls outperformed boys in 2008 at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Higher percentages of girls than boys scored at or above the proficient level on state reading tests at grade 4, grade 8, and high school; in some states, these gaps exceeded 10 percentage points.

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'Apparently “Omega males are the lowest of the low on the guy food chain; they’re the type of men who shirk responsibility, refuse to grow up and generally avoid participating in the real world,” found Moore, based on an article written by author Jessica Grose from Slate.com.
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The majority of men are nothing like an Omega Male. Sure the financial crisis meant that men who defined themselves on fast cars and fancy dinners have had to redefine their masculinity on their actions not their job title alone. But Peter Pan – well he’s been around forever (he just wears a cardigan now) and Wendy - she always left him.

And anyway, the recession wouldn’t have caused his masculine decline– because Peter didn’t want a job to begin with…

In truth: while there may be men who would love to sit around, contemplate writing a novel, smoke pot, strum a guitar and give the proverbial finger to the man - these blokes find it very hard to find love off-screen.

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'LANDER -- Fremont County authorities say a 25-year-old Casper woman admitted to lying about a rape claim in order to get out of a drunk-driving charge.

The Fremont County sheriff's office says Helen Witt came clean after investigators couldn't make her story from last summer match up.

Witt originally told law enforcement she was raped by two men on the Fourth of July in Boysen State Park. She said the two men drug her from her car and sexually assaulted her on a dirt road near the Cottonwood Bay area of the park.
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Authorities say Witt has apologized for filing the false report.

Investigators spent hours on the case involving several agencies in addition to the sheriff's office: the Boysen State Park Rangers, the Fremont County Ambulance Service and the Fremont County attorney’s office.'

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'Duke University and Mike Pressler, who was the lacrosse coach when false rape accusations were made against three team members, have settled a slander suit by Pressler, The Raleigh News & Observer reported. Pressler's suit focused on comparisons the university made between him and his successor after he was forced out in 2006, amid the scandal over the allegations that (at that time) were widely treated as fact. No details were released about the settlement, except that Duke issued this statement: "Coach Michael Pressler is an excellent coach. He did a great job building the Duke men's lacrosse program, while maintaining a 100 percent graduation rate in his 16 years. Duke University regrets any adverse consequences that the Newsday or AP article had on Coach Pressler or his family. Duke wishes nothing but the best for Coach Pressler in his future endeavors, especially at Bryant University and as he leads Team USA in the World Lacrosse Championships."

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'March 31st marked the end of Women's History Month, a celebration of women's contributions to history, culture and society throughout the history of our nation. Trailblazers like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan who helped redefine the role of a woman in America come to mind.

Perhaps one of the most transformative messages born from the women's movement was the concept that a woman can "have it all." It's an empowering and exciting message; yet, the misinterpretations of this message can also be dangerous and actually quite disempowering for women.

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'First came women’s studies, then came men’s studies, and now, a new field in reaction to both: male studies.

Scholars of boys and men converged Wednesday at Wagner College, in Staten Island, N.Y., to announce the creation of the Foundation for Male Studies, which will support a conference and a journal targeted at exploring the triumphs and struggles of the XY-chromosomed of the human race -- without needing to contextualize their ideas as being one half of a male-female binary or an offshoot of feminist theory. Organizers positioned themselves in contrast to men's studies, which is seen as based on the same theories as women's studies and is grouped together with it as gender studies.

More than anything else, the event was a chance for supporters to frame men and boys as an underrepresented minority, and to justify the need for a male studies discipline in a society that many perceive to be male-dominated.

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'Scott Cunningham has been vigilant about his health since both his parents were diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1990s.

When Cunningham, who is 45 and from Marion, N.C., developed the same symptoms as his father -- "knots" on the chest underneath the nipple -- he put off getting help for months because he had been laid off from his job at a furniture plant and was uninsured.

"My chest is swollen, just like it started with my dad," said Cunningham, who also said he feels tired and "different" than he did just a few months ago.

But as symptoms got worse, he finally called the local health clinic and was turned away -- not for financial reasons, but because he was a man.

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'Jesse James should be glad he's married to Sandra Bullock and not Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak.

While Sandara has not publicly said how she will react to her husband's cheating scandal, Kim told RadarOnline.com that she thinks Sandra should castrate Jesse!'

During the video she also made reference to lighting James genitals like a firecracker and blowing it off.