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'As the mother of an only child, a son, I do not think I am exaggerating in saying that I detected something akin to sympathy when we announced that we had a boy.
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Answering counter-claims that the introduction of GCSE and the continued relatively poor performance of boys is just a coincidence, the study points out that in research by the Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development, where more than 13,000 15-year-olds sat what might be termed 'traditional' tests, girls scored better in reading, while boys achieved more correct answers in maths and science.

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'Harriet Harman's office is in trouble with the statistics watchdog again.

After ticking off the equality minister in June for using a figure which "risks giving a misleading quantification of the gender pay gap", the UK Statistics Authority is more than a little perturbed that a quango based in her office - the Women and Work Commission - went ahead and published the figure again just a few weeks later. The number was quoted across the British media - including the BBC.

The figure in question is 22.6 - the percentage that Ms Harman's department likes to suggest is the difference between the earnings of men and women. But the head of the UK Statistics Authority, Sir Michael Scholar, told the Government Equalities Office on 11 June that the figure should not be used, because to do so "may undermine public trust in official statistics".

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'(CBS/AP) Authorities are investigating the husband of the woman who was driving a minivan the wrong way on a parkway just north of New York City when it hit an SUV head-on late last month, killing herself and seven others, sources say.

Diane Schuler, 36, is dead, along with her 2-year-old daughter, three nieces aged 5, 7 and 8 and three men in the SUV. Her 5-year-old son survived the fiery crash.

CBS station WCBS-TV in New York says it's learned that Daniel Schuler "is himself now being investigated by Suffolk County (Long Island, site of the Schuler family home) Child Protective Services" who want to know "how much Schuler knew about his wife's drinking and marijuana use the day of the crash."'

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'A Greek woman set fire to a British man's genitals at a club after he allegedly made sexual advances on her.

The unidentified woman is being praised by her hometown in Crete for what she did and for also turning herself in to police immediately after the alleged incident. She has been charged with causing bodily injury and endangering private property, according to the Telegraph.

Police said that the incident took place at a club in the Greek resort town of Malia. The British man, who police have also not yet identified, allegedly took off his pants there and waved his genitals at a number of girls. He is then said to have "forcefully fondled" the Greek woman and asked her to hold his genitals.

The woman asked the man to stop harassing her, police said, and when he didn't, she poured Sabucco, a liquor that resembles Greek ouzo, on his private area.

When the man continued his advances, police said that's when the woman set fire to his genitals using a lighter.'

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'BOYNTON BEACH, FL -- While Dalia Dippolito was able to go home to her family’s home, still in the sweat pants she was wearing while arrested, her husband Michael has avoided his house.

Trying to stay away from the media long enough to figure things out for himself.

“He remains in a state of shock. You’re here this has become a national story, said attorney Jason Brody.

Michael spoke with his divorce attorney hours after his wife’s caught on camera performance where police said her husband was dead.

And to no ones surprise, he’s already begun the process of divorcing the woman who police say paid a hitman to have her husband murdered.'

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"In an unhappy moment for the politically correct, the academics claim that their research shows that having more women in the boardroom can have "a negative effect on financial performance".

While companies with more women on their boards tend to have better corporate governance, they are less profitable and have a smaller market capitalisation, according to the paper.

Dr Daniel Ferreira, from LSE's Department of Management said: "This is a complicated picture. Our research shows that women directors are doing their jobs very well. But a tough board, with more monitoring, may not always be a good thing. Indeed, we see that increased monitoring can be counter-productive in well-governed companies."

The research comes just days after, Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, repeated a quote about "Lehman Sisters, not Lehman Brothers" to warn that the lack of women in senior business roles was one of the reasons for the financial crisis.

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'Research also shows that children with absent fathers are significantly more likely to drop out of high school (National Principals’ Association Report on the State of High Schools), and that children in single parent families are less likely than students living in intact families parents to have parents involved in their schools.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be poor. Additionally, when fathers are absent or uninvolved, mothers often experience more financial and emotional stresses, which may decrease their ability to parent effectively and lead to increased child abuse and neglect.

A father’s presence in the home can help protect his children from maltreatment. While many fathers also perpetrate child abuse, research shows that the rates of child maltreatment (neglect, physical and sexual abuse), among single-parent families is almost double the rate among two-parent families (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).'

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'Silly men. You can't take them anywhere.

If they're not messing up your house, running into glass doors or trying in vain to outsmart an air freshener, you'll find them eating the inedible or falling down for no reason whatsoever.

At least, that's what some advertisers would have you believe. More and more marketers are trying to tap into the overwhelming buying power of wives and mothers at the expense of their other halves. Dads are dumb, boyfriends are bumbling and husbands are utterly hopeless as brands strive to relate to women by showing men as especially goofy or incompetent.

"They're applying that same formula every time you see an ad," said Deborah Adams, senior vice-president of Harbinger Communications, a consultancy firm that focuses on marketing to women. She's seen the trend rise over the years. "It's not just advertising, it's in pop culture, depicting men in a very narrow, stereotypical view."'

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'Team Obama is, perhaps, the most-misandrist bunch ever running American government. Few are familiar with the term misandry: hatred of men. Ask your friends; you’ll get blank stares — because misandry is both accepted and acceptable in our culture, as TV sitcoms and commercials prove by endlessly featuring moronic husbands and fathers.

Employing the anti-male projections of Vice President Joe Biden and almost-confirmed US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sototmayor, as well as his own, President Barack Obama is operating a veritable misandry cineplex at the White House.
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Misandry exists in the streets, in entertainment, and in baseless and unconstitutional public policies, laws, and adjudications. But, to appear macho, men shrug it off. Don’t forget: Crystal Gail Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, still walks this earth with impunity and freedom.'

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'A 27-year-old teacher pled guilty today to raping her 14-year-old student this past spring. Melissa Weber was a social studies teacher at M.S. 8, a middle school in Jamaica, Queens. According to the Queens D.A., the two had sexual intercourse in a second-floor classroom seven separate occasions between April and May. The D.A.'s office says that the two had intercourse between 3 and 6 p.m., which was during after-school hours, when other students remain on campus for activities.

The situation came to light when the boy's mother, who is a member of the PTA, was told that the teacher was engaging in an inappropriate relationship with her son. She checked her son's cell phone and found hundreds of text messages between Weber and the boy, including one in which Weber told him to "erase your phone.'"

Weber pled guilty to statutory rape, or rape in the second degree. She will have to register as sex offender and lose her teaching license.'

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'Two female Jay High School teachers were arrested today on charges that they had sex in their homes with teenage boys in 2007.

Ashley Elenea Burkett, 31, and April Burford Watson, 33, both of Jay, were arrested Thursday afternoon, charged with having sexual relationships with minors. Both were released on $50,000 bond each after being booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail on three counts each of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a second degree felony. Both were released on GPS monitors.'

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'A young Shropshire mother-of-three, who falsely claimed she had been raped by her partner, has been spared a jail term.

Kirsty Smith, 23, was given a suspended prison sentence yesterday after the court heard she had been involved in an abusive relationship.

Judge Robin Onions told Smith that custody was the normal sentence for this type of offence which undermined the cause of true rape victims.
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In June, Smith, of Meadow Road, Newport, had admitted perverting the course of justice by making a false allegation of rape against Shane Chetwood in January last year when she was six months pregnant.

At Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday, Smith was given 52 weeks in jail, suspended for two years, placed on supervision for a year and ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work in the community.'

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'AN ABERDEEN woman who sparked a major police investigation after she falsely accused her former partner of rape today apologised.

Elizabeth Christie, 30, told a detective at Aberdeen’s Grampian Police Headquarters she had been raped by Angus Reid, known as Greig.

Mr Greig was investigated and ordered to appear at a preliminary hearing at the High Court in Aberdeen.

But the accusations against him were not true.

Christie admitted making the false claims when she appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.

Christie today said she made the allegation after suffering a nervous breakdown.

She also said it was a “cry for help” to her family who she said don’t speak to her.'

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'Sydney - It's the emancipation of women: they drink and drive more than they used to, they get sent to prison more and, it seems, they batter their partners more. Women have always been perpetrators of domestic violence as well as victims. Figures from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Western Australia, the country's biggest state, show a 159-per-cent rise in women before the courts over the past eight years on charges stemming from violent arguments in the home.
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"It's much harder for a man to actually admit that his wife is beating him up," she said. "They seem to regard it as a shameful issue. And a lot of police actually say to men 'What did you do to make your wife hit you?' or 'Can't you handle your missus?'"'

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'Labour has imposed women-only shortlists on more than half of its seats left vacant by retiring MPs, an analysis by The Times shows.

Figures released by the party yesterday show that 24 of the 44 selections in seats won by Labour at the 2005 election are restricted to women. The proportion is expected to increase as dozens more Labour MPs quit before the next election.

Party officials complain that Harriet Harman is rigidly enforcing a policy that women should be fielded in half of winnable seats in each area. It means that local parties in areas where there are few sitting women Labour MPs are given little choice over selection as the party’s high command tries to meet the quota.

Ms Harman, Labour’s deputy leader, sits on a sub-committee of the National Executive Committee, which decides whether to allow an open selection or impose women-only shortlists. It is supposed to decide each seat case by case but is pushing through an increasing number of such contests.'