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'Despite the mounting evidence of inequality, ministers and education quangos are doing little to address the problem because they are afraid of being accused of favouring boys, according to a major report by the Higher Education Policy Instititue.

Nearly half of young women, 49.2 per cent, are now enrolled in university, compared to just 37.8 per cent of men aged 17 to 30. The figure for white boys from deprived backgrounds is just 6.4 per cent. In 2008, 47,000 more women than men were accepted on to degree courses, up from 28,000 more in 2005.
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The gender inequality in university participation now is greater than the reverse inequality over 30 years ago, " said Bahram Bekhradnia, director of the institute and co-author of the report. "But there is a mindset generally that girls are the disadvantaged group not boys. While this might still be true of society as a whole, it is emphatically no longer true in higher education."

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'Men have been hit much harder than women by this recession. Close to 80 percent of the job losses since December 2007 were jobs held by men, according to economics expert Mark J. Perry, who analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics data. April unemployment was a seasonally adjusted 10 percent for men and 7.6 percent for women.

For some guys, unemployment is the last thing they want to reveal to a potential date. Even if men aren't expected to pay for a date, they feel pressure from women who are looking for someone who is financially stable.

"A lot of men are very careful not to say, 'I'm unemployed,'" said Pepper Schwartz, chief relationship expert at Perfectmatch.com. "They say, 'I'm working on this project. I'm taking a sabbatical from work' or 'You heard of GM declaring bankruptcy? I worked there.' They find ways to make it sound like it's not permanent."'

Relatedly: Women are victors in ‘mancession’

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'NORCROSS, Ga. -- A Norcross mother is accused of leaving her 7-year-old son alone for more than two weeks.

Police said Precious Walker, 23, packed up and moved from Smyrna to Norcross on May 4 without the boy. Police charged her with child neglect.

Walker told CBS Atlanta on Thursday that it did not happen.

"All of it just lies, all of it just lies. I'm just trying to get my lawyer and sue whomever I can sue," Walker said.'

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'The White House delivered Judge Sonia Sotomayor's questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday as her nomination to the Supreme Court continued to trigger a larger debate about gender and the judicial process.

And as committee members parse through the 173-pages of documentation, controversy swirls surrounding past comments made by the federal appellate judge relating to gender and ethnicity.
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These newly revealed comments appear as part of a recurring theme in Sotomayor's speech-giving history and only fuel the debatSandra Day O'Connor, the court's first woman justice, didn't believe it did.
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"I can't see, on the issues that we address at the court, that a wise old woman is going to decide a case differently than a wise old man," O'Connor said.

But Sotomayor has specifically said she doesn't agree with O'Connor and that women, because of their experiences, are better.

"Better," Sotomayor said in that same 1994 speech, "will mean a more compassionate and caring conclusion."'

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'(CNN) -- Former teacher Charlene Schmitz is behind bars in a federal detention center in Tallahassee, Florida, serving 10 years for using texts and instant messages to seduce a 14-year-old student.

She has been fired from her job as a reading teacher at the high school in Leroy, Alabama.

But she is still collecting a paycheck.

Schmitz is appealing her federal conviction -- and her firing. State charges filed in connection with the case are pending. Under the law in Alabama, she is still entitled to her $51,000-a-year salary while she appeals her firing.

School officials are not happy that they now have to pay both Schmitz and her replacement. But her attorney says they must obey the law.

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'An Edmonton foster mother, convicted of manslaughter in the death of a child in her care, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, with two months' credit given for the time she spent in remand.

A jury convicted the woman, 34, in November. She cannot be named under Alberta child protection legislation in order to protect the identity of the child, who also cannot be named.

The toddler died in January 2007 of a massive brain injury sustained when his skull hit part of a toilet bowl.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Richard Marceau delivered his decision in a courtroom packed with the friends of the foster mother and relatives and friends of the dead child's family.

After going through all the medical evidence presented by both sides in the case, the judge said he had enough reasonable doubt about how the boy came to hit his head on the toilet bowl to give the benefit of doubt to the accused. He described the fatality as closer to being a "near-accident" than a "near-murder."

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'A quiet sexual revolution, brought about by the overwhelming success of bright young women applying to medical schools, is about to deliver the NHS into female hands. Within eight years, according to a report published today, most doctors will be women.

The old medical patriarchy has left, retired, gone underground or been forced to change its views.
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The review was triggered by remarks from the first female president of the Royal College of Physicians, Dame Carol Black, which sparked a furore. She warned that the domination of medicine by women would end with the profession losing power and influence.

"We are feminising medicine. It has been a profession dominated by white males. What are we going to have to do to ensure it retains its influence? she said in 2004.

"Years ago, teaching was a male-­dominated profession – and look what happened to teaching. I don't think they feel they are a powerful profession any more. Look at nursing, too."'

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'Judge Judith S. Kaye, who was the chief judge of New York State for 16 years until her recent retirement, said she had long avoided engaging others on the question. “I struggled with it for the 25 years I served as a judge,” Judge Kaye said.

But she said she had ultimately come to terms with defending the idea that women judges will, at times, see things differently. “To defend the idea that women come out different on some cases, I just feel it,” Judge Kaye said.

“I feel it to the depths of my soul,” she added, because a woman’s experiences are “just different.”
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The most prominent and recent academic study comparing male and female judges found that female judges were more likely than males to decide in favor of plaintiffs who alleged sex discrimination at the workplace. But the study, an unpublished paper by Christina L. Boyd, Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, found no difference in cases involving disability law, environmental issues and capital punishment.'

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'A NEW gym which caters solely for women has opened its doors in Pendle.

Owner Kate Turner said membership numbers were growing and many women had commented on the relaxed, friendly atmosphere as they were shaping up for summer with the help of experienced and supportive staff.

She explained that the gym provided a new concept in fitness, with members completing a 30-minute "circuit" comprising a three-minute warm-up, three-minute exercises on a selection of femnale-friendly resistance machines and then three minutes of stretches at the end - hence the name "In and Out"!'

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'Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last year accepted an invitation the Belizean Grove, an elite but little-known women’s-only group.
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The group – which on its website describes itself as “a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, non-profit and social sectors; who build long term mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same” – hosts periodic meetings around New York, as well as an annual off-the-record three-day retreat in Central or South America at which its members attend cocktail parties with U.S. diplomats and host-country officials and participate in panel discussions on public-policy and business affairs.'

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"And of course never forget that behind this great female mutiny is the fact that one person in the Labour Party likely to benefit from Brown's downfall is Harriet Harman - perhaps Labour's greatest busybody social engineer.

It was Harman who helped inspire New Labour's politically correct, pro-women agenda which resulted in a series of new laws of social engineering.

Her particular obsessions were women's rights, equality bills and campaign for a new 'social order'. However, her key triumph, the Equalities Bill, was condemned by many, not least because it harked back to many of the right-on, class and gender-war issues of the bad old days of the 1980s Labour wilderness.

Public-sector job applicants to be vetted on their class background; gender pay audits; freedom of breastfeeding. Business leaders, already facing a ruinous slump, threw up their hands in despair.

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'India's new Congress-led coalition government is to press for a radical new law to reserve a third of the elected seats in parliament and in state legislatures for women.

The government has also pledged to introduce a bill which will set aside half the seats in elected village councils and city municipalities for women. At present only a third of the seats in village councils are kept exclusively for women.

India's first woman president, Pratibha Patil, announced the ground-breaking steps at the opening session of the new parliament in Delhi today. She also promised on behalf of prime minister Manmohan Singh's re-elected government that more women would be employed by the central government.

A National Mission on Empowerment of Women will also be set up to implement "women-centred" welfare programmes.

"My government will initiate steps within the next hundred days on these measures," she said.'

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'One of these days, women really ought to make up their minds about what it is exactly they want. Then they could do us all a big favour by stating, unequivocally, what they have decided it is they want. And then they could cover themselves with glory by sticking to what they say.

In other words, it's about time women - especially their self-appointed mouthpieces - started behaving like fully grown-up adults and citizens. Or is that asking too much? Apparently, it is.

A survey published this week tells us that women today are far from happy with their lot and wish they could live more like their mothers and grandmothers - not having to work so much and free to spend more time with their children.
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Men don't go on about it, but the truth is that things aren't entirely wonderful for us, either. The difference is that we don't suppose we've got a God-given right to blame women for it.'

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'WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging.

The federal appeals court judge divulged new details about her finances and provided three decades of writings, speeches and rulings that give both supporters and critics fresh fodder for the coming debate on her confirmation. They include more instances in which she said she hopes a "wise Latina" would reach a better decision than a man without that experience.

The comments in 2002 and 2003 echo a much-criticized remark she made in 2001 at the University of California-Berkeley law school that has prompted a furor among conservatives who say they suggest President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee brings a personal bias to her legal decisions.