YT video here.

Alex Phillips says white working-class men have been betrayed by decades of neglect.

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'Firefighting is a male-dominated field nationwide, but New York City’s gender gap is especially glaring. According to personnel data collected by the City Council, less than 2% of the FDNY’s roughly 11,000 firefighters are women, compared to 9% nationwide and more than 12% in cities like Miami and San Francisco. The first woman to lead the department, Laura Kavanagh, stepped down on Wednesday, after less than two years on the job.

The FDNY did not make Kavanagh available to Gothamist for an interview. In an essay on Medium last month, she attributed her decision to wanting to spend more time with family and friends. Yet her exit has renewed attention to the FDNY’s gender gap, as well as long-standing complaints about sexism and harassment.

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'A recent paper that claims to find women face greater burdens than men when it comes to household chores is flawed in its design.

“The division of household labor is an important but often overlooked driver of global gender inequity,” the Archives of Women’s Mental Health paper suggests. “Women carry a disproportionate burden of domestic tasks, and this burden may be linked with their health and wellbeing.”

The lead authors are psychology grad student Elizabeth Aviv and Professor Darby Saxbe, both at the University of Southern California. They wrote a summary of their research for The Conversation as well.

But the scholars designed the study in such a way, intentionally or not, as to bias the results to make it seem like women do a disproportionate amount of work in the house.'

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'A former Yale University student who defeated claims of rape is continuing his legal battle to seek justice.

Saifullah Khan is suing fifteen organizations including the National Women’s Law Center, the Fierberg National Law Group, and the National Crime Victim Law Institute, along with attorney Jennifer Becker, for “defamation, false light, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and abuse of process action.”

Khan (pictured) is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages. It is pending and the accused groups have requested extensions to file responses, according to a College Fix review of court documents on Aug. 1.

The lawsuit follows an amicus brief the organizations filed with the Connecticut Supreme Court surrounding whether Khan could sue his accuser for damages.

The initial brief called Khan a “rapist,” and said he had committed rape – however, he already had been cleared by a jury of the charges. Despite this, Yale expelled Khan.'

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'The gender gap in higher education is growing – and it may be due to how universities admit students and help them pay for school.

Men earn 42 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 38 percent of master’s, and 44 percent of doctorates, according to the American Institute for Boys and Men.

The group provided several reasons for this gap when asked by The College Fix.

“A pertinent data point is that a lower percentage of men attending college get aid – for example in the 2019-2020 school year, 67% of male undergraduates and 74% of female undergraduates received any aid,” a spokesperson told The Fix via email.'

YouTube video here. An analysis of Norah Vincent's experience dating women when disguised as a man.

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'The future of Hims & Hers — a digital-first health platform that offers content, telehealth and drug treatments related to skin care, sexual performance and mental health — may be more hers than hims.

Why it matters: An intensifying focus on women's health in the U.S. has emerged since the overturn of Roe, including an executive order for more research and new investments flowing into areas including menopause, maternal and postpartum care and pain treatment.

Between the lines: "For the most part, the existing health care system — for better or worse, and mostly worse — was built by men, for men," Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO Andrew Dudum told Axios on Tuesday in an interview for the "Leading Indicator" show from Public, an investing platform.

Women's health care in the U.S. has been underfunded and neglected despite women outnumbering men since 1946.

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'In a global first, EMST’s floors and halls were handed over in their entirety to an all-female cast of artists last month.

“The exhibition’s title is intentionally provocative,” said Katerina Gregos, the museum’s artistic director, who smiles at the prospect of visitors probing the “hypothetical question” of how different the world could be: “What we are asking visitors to do is try and take a leap of the imagination and think what it would be like if governance and decision-making were in the hands solely of women.”

In such a world, would there have been so much war and conflict, or less chest-beating, more compromise and considered discussion, she asks.

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'The SHE Word podcast is launching a women-only online community today, set to provide a safe space for women to discuss and share their experiences.

TSW Founder Trudy Kerr explained how “this will be a safe place that women can have conversations honestly without fear of judgement, where they can post anonymously, and be seen”.

The podcast, which hosts conversations that women rarely have, but really should, is now boasting over 5.9 million collective views across all platforms, including YouTube and Spotify.'

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'Almost half of U.S. women want women-only train cars on subways and transit systems according to a recent poll.

The survey, conducted by YouGov, found that 48 percent of adult women supported trains and subways nearest to them reserving a car for women only.

Of all adults, 43 percent said they would "strongly or somewhat support" the initiative whilst 30 percent "strongly or somewhat" opposed and 27 percent were unsure.

Sociologist Katie Gaddini told Newsweek she was unsurprised by the findings "given the high rates of sexual assault and harassment targeting women in the U.S."'

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'To most of us, looking on in horror at what is currently happening on the streets of otherwise tranquil towns in the UK, the sheer incomprehensibility of the violence threatens to overwhelm any hope of rational understanding.

No wonder, then, that the usual (loudmouthed) suspects are lining up in the hope of “explaining” why it is that thousands of young and not-so-young men are rampaging down your local high street on a summer afternoon. And sure, these men can be condemned as “fascists”, “criminals” and “thugs”, but that reductive labelling doesn’t help much. It makes them appear different to the rest of us – when in fact, they are not.'

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The women involved in far-right riots across UK as social media awash with hate speech

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'In the course of human history, politically oriented gatherings of white people have not typically been a sign of “fun.” Gatherings of white men in particular have historically cultivated an ominous vibe: think the Unite the Right rally, many European land wars, English football hooligans, or Congress. Basically, unless you’re at a Phish concert, seeing a bunch of white guys on a mission can be an unsettling thing. But Democratic organizer Ross Morales Rocketto decided something needed to be done to activate white dudes for the sake of progressive politics, so he set up an online rally called “White Dudes for Harris” that took place July 29. “What we are really trying to do is engage a group of people whom the left has largely ignored for the last few years,” he told the New York Times. “There’s a silent majority of white men who aren’t MAGA Republicans, and we haven’t done anything to try to capture those votes.”'

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'Over the years, I have highlighted on my social media platform the importance of addressing the challenges and concerns faced by boys, men, and fathers. I’ve expressed concerns about the pervasive anti-male propaganda prevalent in news media, entertainment, and educational institutions, and warned that rather than society fostering gender harmony, we’ve often perpetuated a false narrative of men versus women, and all of this was going to come back to bite us. I envisioned new forms of misogyny like we’ve never seen before.

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'The public is convinced that domestic violence is all about aggressive men beating up on defenseless women. While this is in some ways correct, it is only a fraction of the story. The reality is that domestic violence is quite complex and women can be the perpetrators and men can also be the victims. That side of the story though has been deeply buried and ignored.

How did the public come to be so misinformed? It's a long and involved tale. Activists, clinicians, the media, academics and researchers have all played a part in this. Each group has for many years only told a part of the story, the part about women as victims and men as perpetrators. To get a good sense of this remarkable and lopsided tale you could read a report to Maryland lawmakers written by the Maryland Commission for Men’s Health that tells the story plainly about male victims of domestic violence. It does not pull punches and goes into more detail than this short article.'

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'A Louisiana mayor, who abruptly took a leave of absence before resigning last week, is accused of raping a minor during her time in office.

Former DeRidder Mayor Misty Roberts was charged with third-degree rape and contributing to the delinquency of juveniles, Louisiana State Police announced on Thursday.

An investigation into the 42-year-old mayor, who was in her second term, was opened on July 26, after the Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office requested the state police look into a complaint against Roberts.
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“As the investigation progressed, LSP SVU conducted interviews with two juveniles, one of which was the victim. Both juveniles confirmed Roberts had sexual intercourse with one juvenile victim while employed as Mayor,” a statement read.

A warrant for Roberts’ arrest was issued on Wednesday before she surrendered herself to the police.'