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'Do “female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers”?

That is the view of Carol Smith, the senior vice president and chief brand officer for the Elle Group, expressed in a short interview published inside The Times’s business section a week ago Sunday. Ms. Smith also said that male bosses “love to hear themselves talk” and that in some previous jobs she purposely arrived late to meetings so she could miss the men’s conversations about golf and football.'

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'It seems everyone everywhere not only has a theory about what causes autism, they’ve got a therapy, behavior modification, remedy or some other deprogramming technique borne of an urgent demand for normalcy that is all too readily fulfilled by the multi-million dollar autism industry. But what if everyone caught up in battling and defeating autism called a truce? What if autism became the new norm?

If you think it preposterous, consider that, in the United States alone, autism affects one in every 150 children and one in 94 boys. But autism is not an American phenomenon, and statistics in other countries are actually narrower. It has been projected that, at the rate we’re going, by the year 2035 most of our world’s population will be autistic.'

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'One of the interesting questions that feminism turned up was whether sex was the bit of your identity that trumped the rest: class, religion, nationality. Actually, if you dig out a dusty copy of The Female Eunuch, you'll find that many Seventies feminists were anti-capitalist, but even so, one of the prevailing assumptions of the women's movement (pre-Thatcher) was that Team Woman was what you supported as a woman, almost regardless of how you felt about its members.

That whole mindset seems mildly quaint now, but it has been given a detox by Harriet Harman, Labour's Deputy Leader. She says in an interview that voters are fed up with "boys running the show". Two years ago, she tried to ensure that, in the Labour Party, either the leader or deputy leader would be a woman'

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'GRAND MEADOW — In Grand Meadow Public Schools this year, 10 of its 13 grades will have a male majority.

And those boys are falling behind.

In a move seldom seen in modern day classrooms, the district is trying to address boys’ underachievement by teaching the way they believe boys should be taught: separate from girls.

Four seventh and eighth grade classes — art, vocal music, industrial technology and physical education — will be completely gender-segregated this fall.
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Sax addresses five factors contributing to the decline of boys’ performance in school: video games; changing teaching methods; prescription drugs, such as those for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; endocrine disruptors, including chemicals found in plastic bottles that may lower testosterone levels; and devaluation of masculinity.'

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'This week we look at the struggle for family law reform in Canada, the home of some of the world's most extreme anti-male anti-father legislation. Recently Dads On The Air interviewed Canadian MP Maurice Vellacot, who has introduced shared parenting legislation into the Canadian parliament. This week we follow on from that interview by talking with the highly experienced family lawyer Karen Selick, who has been an outspoken proponent for reform of the system; Roger Gallaway MP, who co-chaired an inquiry into shared parenting in Canada and Jeffrey Asher, a professor men's studies who taught the last men's course in the country.'

Show times:
Dads On The Air
Tuesday 4 August 2009 10.30am-12.00 2GLF FM 89.3 and ONLINE

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'LOWELL - Police investigating an anonymous tip Thursday discovered a naked 5-year-old boy, covered in feces, locked in an attic where the only window was nailed shut and the temperature had climbed above 100 degrees, police said.

The boy’s mother, 27-year-old Kristin Paquette, whose second-floor apartment was buried in so much trash that officers could not see the hallway floor, told police she locked the boy in an attic bedroom because she could not control him and he would “interrupt [her] cleaning,’’ according to a police report.

The boy’s 6-year-old brother told police that his sibling “was bad, so mommy put him upstairs,’’ something that happens “a lot,’’ the report says. And Paquette’s children told police, “Mommy does this when she gets angry,’’ prosecutor Dan Harren told a judge yesterday during her arraignment in Lowell District Court.'

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'If you take an honest look at the academic environment to which our boys are subjected, you will see that their masculinity itself is under attack with ideology that teaches them they are inherently flawed.

Christina Hoff Sommers documented this in her highly recommended book “The War Against Boys.” She writes, “The pedagogy is designed to valorize females, such as teaching history in a woman-centered way. Boys are to be inspired to revere Anita Hill and to “enjoy” quilting. At the same time, schools discourage activities that are natural and traditional to boys, such as playing ball together.”

She goes on to say, with sad but pinpoint accuracy, “Most parents have no idea what their children are facing in the gender-charged atmosphere of the public schools.”

What Sommers didn’t add to that but I will is the fact that most parents have no idea about this because they choose not to.'

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'WASHINGTON - A D.C. Superior Court judge found Banita Jacks guilty yesterday of killing her four daughters in a case that shook the nation for its cruelty.

Judge Frederick Weisberg convicted Jacks on four counts of felony murder of the girls, whose decomposed bodies were found inside their home in January 2008. Weisberg also found Jacks guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in the deaths of the three youngest girls -Tatianna Jacks, 11, N’Kiah Fogle, 6, and Aja Fogle, 5 - but acquitted her of premeditated murder in the killing of Brittany Jacks, 16. The mother also was found guilty on lesser charges, including child cruelty. She probably will spend the rest of her life in prison.

Weisberg said the case was “a very lonely assignment and one of the most challenging and difficult’’ he has had during his 32 years on the bench.'

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'Girls are racing ahead of boys in a whole range of skills, from reading and writing to showing the ability to concentrate before they even start their first day of school. An analysis of the basic assessments carried out on every four-year-old before they start compulsory schooling shows a 20 percentage point gap already emerging in writing ability, with 74 per cent of girls able to use writing for a variety of purposes, compared with just 54 per cent of boys.

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'A multimillion-rand educational trust bequeathed by the industrialist and politician Sir Charles George Smith - for the benefit of "European girls born of British/South African or Dutch/South African parents" - will now benefit young women of all races.

This is after the University of KwaZulu-Natal, which manages the trust, applied successfully to the High Court to amend Sir Charles's will, saying that the bequest was an "embarrassment" and could expose it to Equality Court proceedings.
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"More than half of the students attending the university now cannot be classified as white. In addition, the university has policies that are non-discriminatory."'

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'I do not want to frighten pregnant women into believing that this pattern shows that they should be afraid of other women, at least not more than pregnant women should be afraid of men. I do understand that the pattern of feminism has veered into such a paradigm that men are violent and women are not that Erin Pizzey and Susan Steinmetz were both marginalized and vilified by feminists for claiming that a particular type of violent crime—domestic violence—is not a male-caused crime, but one in which women can be guilty as often as men. Perhaps more discussion of fetal-ripping can help us open up the broader discussion about how all women who become violent criminals do so through choice, just like all men who become violent criminals, and this will help clear the air on the entire discussion of gender and violence.'

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'Carthage: How did a handsome, seemingly happily married and former all-star football player such as Steve McNair become a victim and statistic of domestic violence?

Many people would say McNair was not a victim, but someone who was in an extramarital relationship, a choice that resulted in deadly consequences. No matter how you want to view the situation, his death July 4 was ruled a homicide, allegedly committed by Saleh Kazemi, who then committed suicide. Both McNair and Kazemi are domestic violence victims.
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Men are increasingly becoming victims of domestic violence in North Carolina... Of the 47 domestic violence victims so far this year in North Carolina, 13 are males. Of 103 victims in 2008, 20 were males, and in 2007 another 20 males were killed out of 86 murders.
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Since they do not conform to the stereotypical male image, men often hide the fact that they are victims of domestic violence because they know they may become the brunt of jokes and ridicule.'

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'HARRIET HARMAN has demanded that one of Labour’s two top posts should always be held by a woman — because she believes men cannot be trusted to run organisations on their own.

Labour’s deputy leader secretly tried to change party rules two years ago to ensure that it could never again be led by an all-male team, but she was foiled.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Harman reiterates her belief in the principle and says her role as Gordon Brown’s second-in-command has changed for ever the way the party will be run.

“I don’t agree with all-male leaderships,” she said. “Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.”'