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'The 111th Congress convenes at noon today, and House Democratic leadership is starting the week with two bills that appeal to their core constituencies but send the business community into conniptions. The two pieces of legislation -- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act -- are priorities for organized labor, liberal women's advocacy groups, and the plaintiff's bar.

The Paycheck Fairness Act is potentially worse, in that creates many new grounds for litigation in a supposed effort to fight gender discrimination. The bill, H.R. 1338 in the 110th Congress, passed in July 2008 by a vote of 247-178. It would:

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'ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2008) — The typical distancing from parents by adolescents is exacerbated by divorce for fathers, but not for mothers, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

"Historically, teens distance themselves from parents and increase involvement with peers," says co-author Dr. Alan Booth, distinguished professor of sociology, human development and demography at Penn State. "Coupled with divorce, this distancing may result in further declines in father-child closeness."

Although research demonstrates that fathers' involvement with children has increased in recent decades, mothers continue to do the majority of childcare while fathers are the less involved parent.'

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'Fathers & Families, a Boston-based group that advocates for “children’s right to the love and care of both parents after separation or divorce,” filed suit against Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan and other trial court judges on Dec. 23. That same day, the group filed a request for a preliminary injunction in hopes of preventing judges in Massachusetts from applying the new guidelines to cases involving child support after Jan. 1, 2009.
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In its lawsuit, Fathers & Families argues that Mulligan and the Trial Court violated the federal equal protection clause by implementing discriminatory rules, the federal due process clause by passing a law by “judicial fiat,” and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights by passing a law without the participation of the other two branches of state government.

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'News and commentary about wrongful accusations of rape and sexual assault.'

'This Web site was started by a U.S.-based attorney to help raise awareness about false, unfounded and wrongful rape accusations. Objectively verifiable data indicates that at least 9 percent and probably closer to half of all rape claims are false. (See, e.g., S. Taylor, K.C. Johnson, Until Proven Innocent.) Yet the crime of making a false rape report has become so embroiled in the radical feminist sexual assault milieu that it has been improperly removed from the public discourse about rape. Sexual assault counselors often disingenuously refer to the fact of false rape accusations as a "myth." Denigrating the experience of the falsely accused by dismissing their victimization as a myth is not merely dishonest but morally grotesque.'

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'A pensioner has appeared in court charged with shooting her husband dead while he lay sleeping.

Helen Lawson, 61, is accused of blasting her husband Geoffrey, also 61, twice in the chest with a shotgun.

Police found the body of the electrician in the bedroom of their £200,000 cottage after his wife dialled 999 just after 3.30am on Sunday.

Mrs Lawson was arrested at the scene and charged with murder.'

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'St. Paul, Minn. — When a couple with a child divorces, a judge is supposed to start with a clean slate before deciding whether the child will live solely with mom, dad, or split living with each of them.

But under a legislative proposal, judges would presume the child would live with both parents unless there's a good reason not to -- such as child abuse.

While adding the word "presumption" to a statute may seem trivial, it would level the legal playing field that fathers' rights groups say is currently tilted against them.
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Jobst says changing the laws so that judges presume divorced parents share physical custody would allow children to spend more time with both parents.
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The state already presumes that both parents will share legal custody of children, which is different from physical custody.'

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'The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches virtually every family and every American. It is not only the major source of social instability in the Western world today but also seriously threatens civic freedom and constitutional government.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family and the state would confront one another. That day has arrived.
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Contrary to common assumptions, divorce today seldom involves two people mutually deciding to part ways. According to Frank Furstenberg and Andrew Cherlin in Divided Families, 80 percent of divorces are unilateral, that is, over the objection of one spouse. Patricia Morgan of London’s Civitas think tank reports that in over half of divorces, there was no recollection of major conflict before the separation.'

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"Females do have a lot of say. . . . A lot of the drama that happens on the street is over a female," said Samantha Allen, a 17-year-old senior with short brown hair that sloped over her forehead.

Allen said there is a name for girls who, either wittingly or unwittingly, initiate conflicts through their boyfriends, brothers, or male friends. They're called "set-up chicks," she said.

"They're chicks that run their mouths to other parts of the city," Allen said. "They cause a lot of violence."

Most of them rely on men to settle their feuds because they do not know who else to go to for help, said Allen. Many girls could use the guidance the campaign organizers are trying to provide, she said.'

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'“Women suffer more in difficult economic times than men do, so focusing on that, concentrating on equal pay and health care (are) all good things that I saw in the (survey) summary,” said Jenni Smith, president of Mississippi National Organization for Women. She said that NOW is in the process of finalizing its legislative agenda for the 111th Congress, and is including many of the items that the poll revealed as women’s concerns. She emphasized that the economy is most definitely a women’s issue.
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The same double standard seems to permeate every woman’s campaign. An August Pew Research study indicated that while Americans believe women have more of what it takes to be leaders—honesty, intelligence, compassion and so forth—less than six percent believe women make better political leaders than men.

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'It is a known fact that many women get rejected in job interviews just because of their sex. At the same time, many women in corporate India complain that they are denied promotions because of their sex. In such a scenario, it’s not surprising that women worry before job interviews that they may lose out to men.
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A women specific website can certainly do no harm to the ladies. But is it of any use to them? What do the women stand to gain out of this venture?

-A career site where men are not allowed means that the possibility of gender bias at the interviews is completely ruled out. Women will NOT be rejected just because of their gender.
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-Last, but not the least, women should not forget that whenever they apply through naukriforwomen.com, they have already eliminated more than half the competition.'

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'The tiresome myth that women are not as visually aroused as men is used to justify everything from sexual assault to double standards about public toplessness, and it's time to kill it dead.
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Sometimes women even have sex with men for no other reason than - shock horror - physical attraction.

The should-be-obvious truth is that straight women love men's bodies. That it sometimes seems otherwise is only because pervy men are more acceptable in our culture than pervy women.'

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'An interesting study has now said that the roots may lie in the basic differences between men and women.

Last year's hall of shame are leaders that just couldn't stand up to the downturn. They all made mistakes, they all suffered setbacks and they are all men.

In fact, a recent study by Cambridge University has suggested that if there were more women in top power positions, the global financial crisis would have been significantly diminished.

So would that hold true for the economic downturn in India too? Powerful women who lead the pack seem to think so.

"Thinking things through, being authentic, ready to get your hands dirty and get down to the frontline yourself, being nurturing and supportive, these are traditionally a woman's traits but they rise to the fore in a crisis situation," said Dr Gita Piramal, author, Managing Radical Change.

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'He is also involved in the "Dad's Club," through which programs give children quality time with their fathers or any other influential males in their lives. Among the many programs the organization hosts are "Doughnuts with Dad" and movie nights for fathers and their children. Last year the club showed "Air Bud" and appropriately named the program "Me and My Bud."

Huculak tries to convince other men that parental groups, like Parent Teacher Associations or Parent School Associations, are not just for women. He believes the message is starting to resonate.

"For so long it's always been the female that's going to the school, and the man kind of feels left out or that it's not his place," he said. "We're trying to show that the fathers, as well as mothers, need to have a strong presence in schools."

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'Feminists are howling in protest against this growing trend toward single-sex public education. Ever since the 1960s, they’ve been demanding that boys and girls, and men and women, be treated exactly the same based on feminist theory that there are no gender differences.

“Without anyone batting an eye, we are re-segregating schools based on gender,” complained Rosalind Barnett of Brandeis University. “If for a minute people talked about re-segregating on race, people would be up in arms.”

But gender is not like race, and the huge demand for single-sex programs shows that parents know they are effective. Don’t expect Hillary Clinton to protest something so popular, particularly among blacks, and it is doubtful that the Obama Administration will dare to stop this trend.'