Article here. Women work less hours and hold more part time jobs? Looks like the author explained the wage gap myth without even knowing it. Excerpt:

'Women (and men who care about women and our future generations) should be involved in the health care debate currently taking place in Washington, D.C., and there are many reasons why.

Women’s health care needs are generally greater than men’s, particularly in their reproductive years. However, in curious contrast, our current system makes it more difficult for women to obtain and afford the health care services they need.
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About 40 percent of all women are employed full-time, whereas more than half, or about 60 percent of men, are employed full-time. Additionally, many of those women working full-time are employed by small companies that do not provide health insurance.
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And women as a group work fewer hours than men. In a recent survey, more than 50 percent of all women reported delaying or avoiding health care services as opposed to 39 percent of men.'

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'An 18-year-old girl who allegedly opened a false gang rape case while she in fact secretly spent time with her boyfriend, will have to attend a diversion programme if she wants to avoid criminal prosecution.

This was decided after the Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court's control prosecutor and a probation officer discussed the case on Tuesday.

The teenager was arrested on Monday, on a charge of perjury, two days after she had opened a rape case at the Atteridgeville Police Station.
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When she got home on August 22, she apparently lied to her parents, claiming she had been kidnapped by six unknown men and taken to Rustenburg and repeatedly raped.

After registering a false rape case at the Atteridgeville Police Station, the girl was taken to a doctor for treatment and examination at the State's expense.'

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'A night of infidelity covered up by a snowballing lie came unstuck for a young Palmerston North mother.

Jaimee-Lee Fawcett, 19, received a six-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay police and ACC reparations of more than $1200 in the Palmerston North District Court yesterday for making a false allegation of rape.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Whitmore told the court Fawcett had made the false statement after she told her boyfriend she was raped by a man she had met during a night out drinking.

Her boyfriend had then persuaded her to complain to police, which she did on June 30 but she had made up a name for the man she alleged had raped her.'

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'Boys have leapfrogged over girls in maths GCSE results, bagging more of the top grades for the first time since 1997 after the government scrapped coursework last year.

The remarkable two percentage point increase in the proportion of top grades awarded to boys for maths sparked a debate about whether girls and boys should be assessed differently after experts claimed that girls thrived in coursework tests while their male classmates did better at cramming for exams.

A 20-year trend of girls increasingly outperforming boys could begin to reverse next year because coursework is due to be scrapped for nearly all subjects following the move with maths this year. The decision to reduce coursework was made amid concerns of increasing plagiarism, but it now appears it will have a significant impact on the gender gap in education and could disadvantage girls.'

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'Women on the board can be bad for a company’s coffers but they waste no time in ousting male chief executives who are not up to the job.

The claims by two academics appear to support suggestions this week by Harriet Harman that “men cannot be trusted to run things on their own”. Labour’s deputy leader and Equality Minister has also hinted that the credit crisis could have been prevented if more women had been present on bank boards — the so-called Lehman Sisters effect.

Research in the Journal of Financial Economics found that while female board members behaved more like independent directors, this did not necessarily translate into bigger profits. It said that too much interference from directors could result in a loss of trust and lack of information-sharing, further reducing profitability.'

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'NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- The accused came from all walks of life: Retirees, dads and twentysomethings. An engineer, a business owner and an auto worker. A man in a wheelchair. Men in need of Spanish or Farsi translators.

All had tried to buy a prostitute's services and were caught by police. It was their first offense, and a county court referred them to a one-day program called the John School. It's a program run by volunteers and city officials in conjunction with Magdalene House, a nonprofit that works to get prostitutes off the streets.

School is led by former prostitutes, health experts, psychologists and law enforcement officers who talk to -- and at times berate -- the men about the risks of hiring a prostitute.

Prostitution is based on the law of supply and demand. The thinking is: Women won't stop selling sex until men stop buying.'

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'LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)—A seething Rick Pitino said he could stay on the sidelines no longer.

The Louisville men’s basketball coach said video aired Wednesday of a police interview with a woman at the heart of sex and extortion scandal surrounding Pitino revived a “total fabrication of the truth.” In it, Karen Cunagin Sypher accuses Pitino of sexually assaulting her, an allegation she brought to police after she was accused of trying to extort millions from the coach. Prosecutors did not pursue charges against Pitino.

Against his lawyer’s advice, Pitino said he felt he needed to speak out.

“Everything that’s been printed, everything that’s been reported, everything that’s been breaking in the news on the day Ted Kennedy died is 100 percent a lie, a lie,” Pitino said in a hastily called news conference. “All of this has been a lie, a total fabrication of the truth.”'

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'Girls swept the board in national curriculum tests for seven-year-olds, beating boys in every paper – reading, writing, speaking and listening, maths and science.

The biggest gap was in writing, where one in four boys failed to reach the standard expected, compared with just 13 per cent of girls.

Overall, the results showed a one percentage point improvement in writing this year from 80 per cent to 81 per cent – but a one per cent slump in maths to 89 per cent. Reading, and speaking and listening, remained the same at 84 per cent and 87 per cent respectively – as did science at 89 per cent.

David Laws, the Liberal Democrats' education spokesman, described the decline in maths scores as "a blow to ministers who have been targeting resources in order to improve performance". He added: "The Government should be especially ashamed of the fact that one in four boys failed to master basic writing skills by this age."'

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'Let's face it: sometimes men make better single parents than women. Some researchers even believe that this is almost always true, as single men are better able to impart such things as empathy to their children than women (Father and Child Reunion). With all of the hooting and hollering for women's rights that has gone on over the last few decades, the time has come for the lack of consideration of the rights of men to be noticed and changed. Recovery is definitely one of these areas, at least in the city of Louisville, and single dads need to be afforded the same opportunities to parent as women.

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'Doctors have long known that women are nearly twice as likely as men to die in the first month after a heart attack. But a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked behind this statistic to discover that gender may not directly influence survival outcomes after a heart attack.
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Among all the studies, women died at a 9.6 percent rate compared with a 5.3 percent rate for men in the first month after a heart attack. Yet the study pointed out key differences between men and women in these statistics.

Women were having heart attacks at an older age than the men. Women were also more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure and heart failure while men were more likely to smoke, to have had a previous heart attack and have a previous bypass surgery.'

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"Police are hunting a group of women they believe are responsible for an attack on a man during a night out.

Today detectives released CCTV footage showing six female suspects, all believed to be in their twenties.

The 38-year-old, who was left with a broken ankle and stiletto-shaped wound on his head, had been on a night out with his girlfriend at the time of the unprovoked assault in Liverpool."

The fairer sex, my big fat hairy butt!

Last week the mayor of Milwaukee was injured while intervening between a drunk man and his daughter's grandmother.¹

ABC's Milwaukee affiliate, WISN, followed up with a story that asserted, "domestic violence situations are, by far, the number one reason that police officers are wounded on duty," and quoting "domestic violence experts" to back up this bit of received wisdom.²

There's just one problem with this claim – researchers who studied this very question³ found it wasn't true. They found that domestic disturbance ranked fourth in the ratio of assaults to calls or service, but only fifth in the ratio of injuries to calls for service. In other words, he rate of injury from domestic disturbance calls was lower than the rate from four other types of calls.

Also via Jeremy S.:

Personally I still absolutely do not believe or accept that parental alienation is "gender neutral". I think that this is simply a position of convenience and 'politically correct' expediency and that Parental Alienation is still overwhelmingly rooted in female action. However this TV appearance and presentation by Dorcy Russel on the subject itself is very encouraging.

Via Jeremy S.: This is must-see.

"A cry for help from SecondClassCitizen.org, dedicated to an old friend.

This story is far too true, and far too common. Soldiers returning from war, only to be oppressed by the same system they swore allegiance to protect. This film chronicles the last day in the life of one soldier - or many - as countless veterans every month end their lives in desperation."