Article here. Excerpt:

'Pretoria - Up to 75% of all perpetrators of human trafficking are women, according to a study released in Pretoria on Wednesday.
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In countries that participated in the study, 30% more women than men were convicted for trafficking.

"Women play an important role, more than men and boys," said Lucas.
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Sexual exploitation was found to be the main form of exploitation in southern Africa and the rest of the world. This was closely followed by forced labour, said Kruger.'

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'Tory Johnson, the organizer of the 10-year-old event and chief executive of Women for Hire, said the crowd was something she had never seen before. The expo, which saw about 1,500 people pass through its doors when it was last held in September, recorded that many attendees in the first hour.

Overall, the event brought in 5,103 people, according to Johnson. She noted that while most of the attendees were unemployed, some came to prepare for the possibility of a pink slip.

Men were allowed to attend the biannual event for the first time. Johnson said the decision was borne out of dozens of requests from women who had attended previous events, seeing a need for their husbands, brothers and fathers to find a job, too. About one of every five people in the line that spanned two city blocks was a man.'

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'PHOENIX (AP) - A Gilbert woman has been arrested in connection with the slaying of her husband, who police say was beaten with a hammer.

Marissa DeVault, 31, was arrested Friday and charged in the murder of Dale E. Harrell, 34.

Police said DeVault initially was arrested and booked into jail on Jan 14 for aggravated assault after she reportedly hit her husband with a hammer while he was lying in bed.

Harrell died Feb. 9 from his injuries, according to authorities.'

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'The argument that boys learn to read and write at a slower pace and are motivated by a more active style is backed by studies that date back 60 to 70 years, Brozo found.

The "boy crisis" point of view tends to ebb and flow, never gaining enough momentum to bring systemic change. It gained traction in the 1990s and held its ground through the early 2000s, culminating in Peg Tyre's best-selling "The Trouble with Boys" in 2008.

Feminists who had promoted better education for girls were skeptical, worried that girls would lose hard-won ground if attention shifted back to boys.
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"I have a lot of feminist friends in the academic community," Brozo said. "But I can't agree all the time with their assumptions that this is just an overreaction because girls are making great strides."'

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'It's well known that girls outperform boys in state schools, but it's less widely realised that the same phenomenon applies in the private sector, too. Of the 200 highest-ranked independent schools in the 2007 A-level league tables, three times as many were girls-only establishments (95) as boys-only (31), with the rest being co-eds.
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Vicky Tuck, head of Cheltenham Ladies' College and president of the Girls' Schools Association, agrees. "The modern-day exam system does favour girls," she says. "Girls are better suited to a style of working which requires diligence and consistency, rather than cramming everything into a three-hour exam."

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'New Hampshire local politician Crow Dickinson is being crucified for uttering some inconvenient truths about divorce and domestic violence–”There are a lot of women who use [domestic violence] as a gimmick in divorce proceedings.” Hundreds have responded to Fathers & Families’ Recent Action Alert to write letters in support of Dickinson.
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Many family law professionals agree with Dickinson’s contention that false claims of domestic violence are often used as custody maneuvers in divorce cases.
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Domestic Violence Protective (aka "Restraining") orders have become so commonplace that the Illinois Bar Journal calls them “part of the gamesmanship of divorce.”'

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'...his oldest daughter, Tammy Lewis, had plotted a murder-for-hire scheme to collect on his $200,000 life insurance policy, he was shocked at the allegations made against his wife but not his daughter.

"My daughter ... I could believe it. My wife, no way," said Hughes, of Garland, Texas. "She's my wife, my friend, and I just don't think she would do anything like that."

But law enforcement officials believe she was involved in the would-be contract killing.

Police said Lewis offered to pay $25,000 to an undercover detective acting as a hitman to kill her father and said she wanted her dad shot dead as soon as possible.

The two met at a local strip mall, where Lewis gave the undercover officer a loaded pistol to use in the homicide. Lewis said she and her mother would pay the would-be killer the $25,000 fee from her father's $200,000 life insurance policy as soon as it was cashed.

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'Decent fathers are left powerless to see their estranged children if vengeful mothers are determined to prevent access, a senior judge has admitted.
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Lord Justice Ward attacked child access law after presiding over a case that saw a “vicious” mother falsely accuse her ex-husband of sexually abusing their child.

He spoke out after telling the father that there was nothing he could do to help him re-establish contact with his daughter after his ex-wife turned her against him.

The man’s 14-year-old daughter, who cannot been identified, had been influenced by a “drip, drip, drip of venom” from his ex-wife, who wanted to deny him his paternal rights.

Lord Justice Ward said the case was bordering on the scandalous but the court was compelled to act in the interests of the child.

Because of her mother’s “viciously corrupting” influence, it would cause the teenager too much distress if she spent time with her father, he said.'

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'Separation agreements between divorcing couples are not necessarily final if one spouse gets a bad deal, the Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday in a ruling that ordered a B. C. dairy farmer to pay his former wife $650,000.

The Supreme Court unanimously concluded that Ben Brandsema exploited his wife's fragile mental state by allowing her to sign her name to an "unconscionable"agreement in which he failed to disclose all his assets.

The ruling is a reminder that if you try to "pull a fast one" on your estranged spouse, a judge can rescind the agreement even years later, said Toronto family law expert Phil Epstein.'

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'(CNN) -- A 24-year-old teacher from Holyoke, Massachusetts, is in custody after allegedly leaving town with a 15-year-old student, city officials said Tuesday.

Lisa Lavoie and the male student were found in Morgantown, West Virginia, Monday night after apparently being together for a week, Holyoke Mayor Michael Sullivan said.

Investigators have charged Lavoie with enticement of a child.'

This woman is so up herself it's amazing! I love the comments from readers. Sample of her whining:

"My generation of women aren't having it all - we're doing it all. It's a constant struggle to meet the demands of my various roles as wife, mother, daughter, colleague, lover, friend. I feel as if I short-change everyone all the time.
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I never have a moment that's just mine. Someone always wants a piece of me. Yesterday, in the middle of a bikini wax, I had an urgent call from the office and had to orchestrate a crucial meeting on the other side of the world, biting my fists to stop yelping at the wrong moments."

Representatives Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Ted Poe (R-TX) recently introduced H.R. 739, the SAFE ("Security and Financial Empowerment") Act. If passed the bill will supercharge false allegations of domestic violence by granting lifetime job security to anyone who merely claims to be a victim of DV. By creating powerful incentives to file false claims, the bill trivializes the problem of domestic violence and would marginalize its true victims.

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'A 4-year-old boy was found beaten to death in his grandmother’s Bronx apartment, and she has been charged with his murder, the police said Sunday.

The boy, Kevion Shand, died of blunt impact injuries and brain hemorrhaging, according to the medical examiner’s office.

His grandmother Angela Barksdale, 45, was charged with second-degree murder, said Steven Reed, a spokesman for the Bronx district attorney’s office.
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It’s a sad case,” said Brett Wilkerson, 37, who said Ms. Barksdale welcomed him to the building when he moved in in 2001. “You never know who you’re living next to.”

Kaprisha Foster, 19, said Ms. Barksdale had let her stay in her apartment when she locked herself out. She added that Ms. Barksdale was “not the type of person” to hurt someone.
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Mr. Anaya described Kevion as a friendly boy who always said hello and showed no signs of abuse.

Ms. Barksdale was expected to be arraigned Sunday night or Monday morning.'

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'Gilbert police say Marissa Devault left behind a bloodied hammer that was used to beat the head of her husband, who would become the town's first homicide since 2007.

Dale E. Harrell, 34, survived nearly four weeks after undergoing surgery to remove part of his brain following a 2:45 a.m. Jan. 14 attack that left him critically injured in the master bedroom of the couple's home on the 2100 block of East Maplewood Street, according to a police report released Friday.
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"By Marissa's own statement, she would have continued to assault with the hammer if not stopped by a third party," an investigating officer wrote.
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In a call to 911, Devault stated her husband choked her during an argument, a police report states. She also claimed Harrell was attempting to sexually assault her, yet "evidence at the scene did not support the information," one detective wrote in the report.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women have traditionally outlived men due in part to the increased mortality rates of "masculine" careers like the military and mining.

But with the West at peace, dangerous careers on the decline and men increasingly willing to improve their diets and seek early medical advice, male life expectancy is increasing at a faster rate.'