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'A group of “white, male, straight, British” executives have claimed they were victims of discrimination after being made redundant by one of London’s top advertising agencies.

They reportedly lost their jobs at J Walter Thompson (JWT) agency in the summer following a speech by creative director Jo Wallace saying she wanted to “obliterate” its reputation as a “Knightsbridge boys’ club”.

Shortly after the conference in May the men went to JWT’s HR department to express concerns about the implications for their career prospects, according to the advertising industry magazine Campaign.

The executives are understood to have engaged lawyers about bringing a possible discrimination case on grounds of gender, race, nationality and sexuality.

If a legal case goes ahead it is likely to be seen as a major test case at a time when many employers are trying to boost female representation at senior levels to close the gender gap.'

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'The Government is braced for legal challenges to its plan to fund women-only posts in universities.

But a solicitor who specialises in employment law has said the plan would likely stand up to any challenge under equality legislation.

"There may be an equality issue there. But they are allowed to have a bias towards female roles if there is specific policy there," said Claire McDermott, of the Flynn O'Driscoll law firm.'

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'In an op-ed for the Irish Independent, Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor writes that in order to “accelerate” gender equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions, she is creating “female-only professorial posts within our universities and institutes of technologies.”

These “radical changes” are necessary, Ms. Mitchell O’Connor insists, to ensure a more equal playing field.

Many women, “who are as capable and efficient as their male peers,” Mitchell O’Connor writes, “still work in an environment where their gender holds them back. Let’s call it what it is: gender inequality.”

Anticipating some “minor backlash,” Ms. Mitchell O’Connor argues that the move does not discriminate against men but simply addresses the “paltry proportion” of women in senior third-level positions.'

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'Sex doll enthusiasts, including single and married men, descended on the exclusive gathering in Texas last weekend to meet like-minded hobbyists who share the same fascination with fake plastic women.

At the three-day meet-and-greet, more than 30 human-like sex dolls were displayed by attendees in a pageant-style presentation.

Guests did not have sex with the dolls, but “checking them out” and fondling with their breasts was “very much an accepted thing”, one party-goer said.

Besides from admiring and touching each other’s dolls, guests drank beer, shot guns and “did guy stuff”.

These gatherings, which happen two to three times a year in different US states, are part of the burgeoning sex doll zeitgeist currently sweeping the globe.

Men in the US and across the world are starting to chose sex dolls over real women in growing numbers, with manufacturers such as RealDoll capitalising on the booming demand.'

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'Donna Zuckerberg didn’t expect to spend two years trawling through the corner of the internet defined as “the manosphere”, unpicking the grim alliance between pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, incels (involuntarily celibate men), the far right and the most ardent Make America Great Again advocates.

“It started as a curiosity,” she says, as we video call from her home in Silicon Valley, which she shares with her husband and two children. “But it took on a life of its own.” A classicist with a PhD from Princeton, Zuckerberg edits the online journal Eidolon, publishing scholarly essays on the Greco-Roman world from academics and students.

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'A University of Michigan at Flint professor has complained about eight University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business scholarships, saying they discriminate against men.

Mark Perry, a professor of economics, sent a complaint to U.Va.’s Title IX office last week about the single-gender, women-only scholarships at Darden, as well as the Forte Foundation Fellows program, which connects females who receive merit-based scholarships to networking and leadership opportunities. He asked the office to investigate whether U.Va. “is engaging in ongoing, systematic and illegal sex/gender-based discrimination, in violation of Title IX standards and U.Va.’s own stated policy of non-discrimination based on gender,” according to his complaint. Male students and students who do not identify with either gender are being denied equal access to financial aid, he said.'

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'A health services initiative at Brown University is promoting the idea that men are socialized only to express anger, which then causes men to show their emotions through violent behavior that must be unlearned.

The health services program wants to create "safe spaces" so male students can express themselves and unlearn the things they've been taught about manhood.

Linda Harvey, president of Mission America, says there are many men of high character and such a demand doesn't reflect reality.

"Nobody wants to be lectured to about some widespread issue of all men are evil," she says. "Most people can see right through that."

Campus Reform reports Brown has the "Unlearning Toxic Masculinity" guide to help those men afflicted with male toxicity.'

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'Of 2,325 U.S. adults surveyed, 10 per cent of men and seven per cent of women met the clinical cut-off point for “compulsive sexual behaviour disorder,” a newly named category of sexual pathology that involves a persistent inability to control intense, repetitive urges and feelings, resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour “that causes marked distress or social impairment.”

Until now, rough estimates pegged the condition’s prevalence at somewhere between one and six per cent of the population, with men assumed to be between two and five times more likely to suffer from the disorder than women.

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'Mothers often complain about getting the short end of the stick in divorce cases involving child custody, but so do many fathers.

For parents who are trying to juggle shared custody, child support payments and their careers — finding the right life-balance can seem impossible.

Sometimes disagreements escalate into messy legal battles that require judges, attorneys and therapists to step in and help.

In her CNN Original Series, "This is Life," Lisa Ling spoke with fathers who feel the system has let them down.

One is a divorced father who has spent time in jail because he said he couldn't pay his court-ordered child support.'

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'Following the tragic shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks this week, where 12 people were shot dead, "Good Morning America" aired an interview with three young women who made it out alive. As they detailed their harrowing tale, they couldn’t help but praise the men, complete strangers to them, who had also been at the bar and heroically shielded them from the shooter.

This young woman’s statement is remarkable: “There were multiple men that got on their knees and pretty much blocked all of us ... ready to take a bullet for any single one of us,” she says, in awe.'

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'Which leads me to the issue at hand. America needs more good men. America needs fathers to be present and there. America needs men to work, earn, protect and provide for their families. America needs men to treat women and children with a higher regard than society seems to currently favor. American needs fathers to be an example of true manhood and success.

I know it’s not politically correct to say this — but it seems like a major problem with violence, abuse, mass shootings and attacks is fatherlessness.

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'Should men and women pay different tax rates?

The chair of the Senate’s economics legislation committee, Liberal senator Jane Hume, posed the question this week during a public hearing on the government’s income tax plan.

The question was asked in jest to some tax experts, to have a little dig at Labor, because Labor had started drawing attention to the fact that the government’s proposed $143bn tax cuts would benefit men more than women at a ratio of almost two to one.
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Stewart told the committee this week she was not advocating the introduction a two-tiered gender-based tax system in Australia, but she said the paper by Alesina and Ichino did make an important point about how tax systems affected men and women differently.

“The point being made by that research was precisely the point about workforce supply, and secondary workers being more [sensitive to tax],” she said.'

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'For a second time this year, Mountain View authorities have arrested a 44-year-old woman they say lied about being a victim of domestic violence, then looted the homes of her alleged abusers after they were taken away by police.

Sunmee Kim — also known as Sunny Jean Kim, Jean Kim, Jiin and Ashley Kim — met her victims on Korean dating websites, developed relationships with them, then called police and claimed she was the victim of domestic violence, according to police.

“She would steal any and all valuables and also receive victim services,” Mountain View police said in a news release Wednesday.'

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'The male colleague of a female teacher who allegedly grabbed him by the testicles after ripping open his shirt at a parent-teacher evening has branded her a 'narcissist'.

Helen Evans, 44, left her colleague feeling 'intimidated and extremely upset' when she allegedly groped him at Llanishen Fach School, Cardiff, in May 2013.

The man gave up teaching shortly after the alleged 'sexually motivated' attack - and said Miss Evans' behaviour was the main reason.

She did not deny the incident happened and was reported to police - but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to take the case any further.'

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'"It turns out that this is a ‘manel’ (all-male panel), which means that I would withdraw,” Dr. Chris Mackie, the medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London Health Unit, wrote on Twitter Monday in response to a tweet publicizing his scheduled appearance.
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Mackie himself announced the issue as resolved on Twitter Tuesday, writing that, after speaking to organizers, the “manel issue” had been addressed and that he was impressed with the level of understanding organizers showed of the issue.

“I think it is an important issue to be raised because we don’t get the best panels when we don’t seek out expert women,” he said to The Free Press.'