Story here. Excerpt:

'Billboards across Moscow advertising a women's magazine are raising female consciousness by asking Russia's fairer sex: "Are you ready to pay half to be independent?"

It's a question with increasing relevance because growing numbers of young Russian women are moving into management positions, earning good salaries and boosting their spending power. But for most, the answer to the question for now is still a resounding "no".

"When you go out with a guy, even if you're just friends and there's no romantic subtext, you would always expect him to pay," says Svetlana Kolchik, deputy editor of Russia's Marie Claire.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"Athletes at Arizona State University are the latest victims of this disturbing trend. In May, the school announced that it was cutting three men’s sports: wrestling, swimming, and tennis. Following public outcry (see SaveASUwrestling.com) and a massive fundraising campaign, wrestling has since been reinstated. ASU swimmers, tennis players, and several coaches were not so lucky."

Commentary here. Excerpt:

"In response to the same question however, Christina Hoff-Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Who Stole Feminism, told the HPR that “almost all areas are overblown. We’ve entered a new phase where American women have achieved equality with men.” While there may be pockets of sexism, “overall if you look at the status of women in society and men in society and you ask who’s doing better, it’s a mix.” Women, say critics of the current feminist movement, are already more educated, have higher aspirations, live longer, and have more choices in how to arrange their lives. While women typically earn less, wage comparisons often do not take into account time women may have taken off in order to care for children, a decision, they say, that comes with a legitimate financial penalty."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Obama said, "They will take for granted women can do anything that the boys can do, and do it better." Of course--the ladies aren't equal to men, they're better. I've never understood why some women have this great and unending desire to be told that they're better than men and to put men down. Obama, a smart politician, is pandering to this desire."'

Article here. Excerpt:

"The report concludes with a lament that women still earn only about 80 percent of what comparably trained men do. Remarkably, it makes no mention of the single biggest contributor to that persistent gender gap; namely, the fact that young women continue to choose professions that pay less well than those chosen by men with similar education. Women remain more likely than men to major in art history and journalism; men are more likely than women to major in computer science, physics, and engineering. A college graduate with a degree in physics or engineering will earn more than a graduate with a degree in art history or journalism, simply because the marketplace values those skills differently. Again, the one intervention proven to increase the numbers of women entering highly paid fields such as engineering—namely, single-sex classes—is scorned by the AAUW on political grounds."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A former teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student and fleeing with him to Mexico is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges, her attorney said Tuesday.

James Martin Davis, the attorney for 26-year-old Kelsey Peterson, said his client will plead guilty Wednesday to federal charges of having sex with a minor across state lines.

It's similar to the original charge of crossing the border to have sex with a minor but doesn't carry a minimum 10-year-sentence, Davis said."

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman has been charged with withholding cancer medication from her 8-year-old autistic son, who prosecutors say likely will die because the cancer has returned.
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In March... the child's oncologist ... filed a report of suspected neglect with the Department of Social Services after discovering Fraser's cancer had returned, something that should not have happened if he was on his medications.

The boy's father, Eric Fraser, now has full custody of his son in Saugus. He said Jeremy spends part of his day in a special education program.
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"I'm pretty disgusted about the whole justice (system) and DSS," Fraser said. "Now my son's going to die."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A mother-to-be has been stabbed to death by another woman and her almost full-term baby cut from her womb, police have revealed.
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A 23-year-old woman has been arrested.
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Her body was found early on Saturday in a park in the city of Kennewick.'

The good news: The UK government's plan to close down all women's prisons has been rejected due to popular opinion.

Aging celebrity Joan Bakewell, ex-mistress of Harold Pinter, is not happy about this. In this article, she attempts to tug at our heart-strings to make us feel sympathy for female criminals, but not male ones. "Prison is hard for women". Isn't that the idea? If you can't do the time, don't do the crime...

As a 1970s feminist, she openly preaches double-standards. Get this:

"Prison is certainly not one of the places where women aspire to equal treatment."

Here, at YouTube, is some video from the Fatherless Day Rally in Los Angeles.

Fatherless Day Rally, Los Angeles
(The speech given at this rally has been dubbed in due to poor sound quality.)

Story here. Even the prosecutor believes that if the genders had been reversed, we'd be talking jail time, not probation. Excerpt:

'A 39-year-old Louisville woman who had two children with an underage boy was sentenced this morning to 20 of years probation...

Irene Gomez, whose children were conceived with the boy when he was 13 and 16, had pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and attempted child sex assault as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.'

Another gender bias. This time it is propounded by none other than India's first female president. Shame on her. Article here. Excerpt:

'NAGPUR: Even as there is talk about starting new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and increasing the number of seats in the existing ones, a move is afoot to open the country's first all-women engineering and technology-oriented institute in Amravati, President Pratibha Patil's hometown in Maharashtra.

The suggestion to start India's first all-women IIT at Amravati near Nagpur in Vidarbha had in fact been mooted by Saint Gadgebaba University vice-chancellor Kamal Singh. Patil followed it up when she became the country's first woman president last July.'

You read that correctly. According to this article, a new state program aimed at helping families will hire a coordinator specifically to look at how existing programs can be used to help fathers, or what new programs could be implemented for them. Excerpt:

"Traditional programs have been aimed at helping women, said Terence Ray, director of the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative. "It's good to see that the movement has evolved into understanding that when you talk parenting, there's another parent," Ray said."

Story here. Excerpt:

'A WOMAN who accused colourful broadcaster Derryn Hinch of sexually assaulting her has made an unreserved public apology.

Maryann Martinek, a former business partner of Hinch's, made the allegations in 2006 directly to Hinch.

Hinch said she also asked for $50,000 or she would go to the police and make the allegations public.

But Hinch also reported the matter to police who later recommended that no prosecution should proceed.'

P.S. Derryn Hinch is one of Australia's top talk radio stars.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Clearfield police said a teenage girl's claims that she was raped in the middle of a church parking lot in broad daylight are false.

In a statement sent to the Deseret News on Friday, Clearfield Assistant Police Chief Greg Krusi said laboratory test results and other evidence analyzed did not match up with the girl's claims about being attacked.'