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'Some of the criticism from Wall Street aimed at Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen is due to sexism, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde suggested Sunday.

“[Yellen] receives a lot more criticism, in my view, than many of her predecessors in many ways, given the great job she is doing,” Lagarde said during in a conversation with author Michael Lewis before a large audience at IMF headquarters.

Many on Wall Street have said the Yellen Fed lacks a clear road map for interest-rate policy and has suffered from poor communication.

Lewis had started the conversation by saying that whenever he sees a woman given a position of prominence in finance, he has a sense that “she was there for one reason — to take the fall if things go wrong.”'

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'In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court has widened the scope of the Domestic Violence Act by ordering deletion of the words “adult male” from it, paving the way for prosecution of women and even non-adults for subjecting a woman relative to violence and harassment.

The apex court has ordered striking down of the two words from Section 2(q) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, which deals with respondents who can be sued and prosecuted for harassing a married woman in her matrimonial home.

Referring to earlier verdicts, the apex court said: “the microscopic difference between male and female, adult and non-adult... is neither real or substantial, nor does it have any rational relation to the object of the legislation.” Section 2(q) of the Act reads: “‘respondent’ means any adult male person who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the aggrieved person and against whom the aggrieved person has sought any relief under the DV Act.”'

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'In the speech Milo focused on how feminists can continue to ruin your life, even if you’ve been acquitted of a false rape claim and how this has driven many men to celibacy.

“Affirmative consent, for those who don’t know, is the idea that if you don’t consent at every stage of a sexual encounter, it’s rape. That means asking for every kiss and asking for every boob squeeze. It’s almost as if feminists want everyone to remain celibate.” said Milo to a packed auditorium. “Just because they can’t get any sex, they want the rest of us to have deserts down there too.”

“Men won’t even get a fair trial. If they’re accused of sexual assault on a college campus, they’ll be hauled before a group of college administrators for a “tribunal,” in which they will be denied legal representation and face a lower standard of evidence than in a criminal court. Even if they somehow beat this rigged system, like Emma Sulkowicz’s victim did, they can still have their lives ruined in the media.”

“When men are being told that they’ll be labelled “harassers” for making an awkward advance, and “rapists” for bad drunken sex or not getting consent for the fifth make-out session, there’s only one logical course of action: retreat.”

“The rise of feminism has fatally coincided with the rise of video games, internet porn, and, sometime in the near future, sex robots. With all these options available, and the growing perils of real-world relationships, men are simply walking away.”

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'A men's rights group has accused Arlene Foster of unintentionally snubbing men affected by domestic violence.

The First Minister last week endorsed the White Ribbon campaign, signing a personal pledge "never to commit, condone, or remain silent about men's violence against women in all its forms".

But Gary Quinn, of Men's Aid Northern Ireland, criticised the pledge for "promoting the myth that men are always the perpetrators and never the victims of domestic violence".

He said it ignored the fact that women could also be the aggressors and that there had been a huge increase in the number of reported incidents of violence against men in the home.

"I don't believe Arlene set out to cause offence, but by signing that pledge she is ignoring male victims of domestic violence," he said.

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'When feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Jaye had only heard about the Men’s Rights Movement as being a misogynist hate-group aiming to turn back the clock on women’s rights, but when she spends a year filming the leaders and followers within the movement, she learns the various ways men are disadvantaged and discriminated against. The Red Pill challenges the audience to pull back the veil, question societal norms, and expose themselves to an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege.'

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'In a shocking incident, five persons of a family of a retired Army doctor were found dead at a relative’s flat in Kokar area on Sunday afternoon. The condition of the Army doctor, who also stabbed himself several times, was highly critical and he was admitted to Medica. The police said that chances of his survival were less.

The police said that, prima facie, it seemed to be a case of suicide pact between the family members, who were feeling tortured and threatened by the daughter-in-law of the former Army doctor. His son and his wife were having troubled marriage and there was dispute over custody of their seven-year-old girl, one of the five victims.

The retired Army doctor, identified as Dr Sukanto Sarkar, in his late 60s, was admitted to Medica Hospital.

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'Chief among these mechanisms, according to a new report from Yale University’s Child Study Center, are racial preconceptions that shape the way the teachers view black boys in particular. These preconceptions were found to exist in black as well as white preschool teachers.

In the study, the Yale researchers showed teachers a dozen brief video clips of four well-behaved preschool-aged children, two boys, one black and one white, and two girls, one black and one white, working and playing together in a classroom. Though the children were behaving calmly, the teachers were asked to look for signs of behavior that might become problematic.

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'While it is important that men reveal their emotions and be honest to their feelings, it’s also true that courage and resilience are important.

The unfortunate reality, since the publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch in 1970, is that the feminist movement has undermined such manly virtues and attributes.

In addition to labelling men as misogynist and sexist, feminists argue that male characteristics such as being physically active and showing courage are negative and counter-productive.

The American feminist Camille Paglia, and much to the disgust of the sisterhood, in a 2013 interview condemns the feminist movement for emasculating boys and men and for undermining the status of the US military service.

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'The call for women’s equality has been achieved at American universities. In fact, the feminist movement has been so successful that it is young male students, and not young women, who lose out.

The modern college is a man’s world no longer.

Now, women make up the majority of the student body on campus. They also lead in graduation rates, too. According to data from the federal government, women gained majority status in college enrollment in 1979. Since then, the gap between men and women has gotten wider, and women now are the majority of the student body at roughly 57 percent.

At some colleges, women outnumber men in even higher rates. For example, at Framingham State, a public university in Massachusetts, women make up 63 percent of the student body, the Boston Globe recently reported.

And in June, Dartmouth College announced that 54 percent of its undergraduate engineering degrees were awarded to women, “making it the first national research university to award more bachelor’s degrees in engineering to women than men.”'

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'Male numbers at universities across the English-speaking world are in decline. An independent commission in the U.K. found in 2013 that young women were a third more likely than their male peers to apply to university. The latest Statistics Canada figures reveal that women aged 25-34 earned 59.1% of university degrees. Moreover, a 2013 report by two economics researchers at MIT found that the decline in male higher education in the United States has been paralleled by a marked decline in male wages, employment, and occupational stature.

For some, this news may not seem disturbing. Men have dominated higher education and elite occupations for a long time—so the thinking goes—and it is women’s time to flourish now.

But as the authors of the MIT study point out, the ramifications of male under-achievement are disastrous not only for men themselves, especially for poor and racial minority men, but for their potential mates and their children, leading to the decline of stable, two-parent households for raising a family.

The reasons for decreased male participation in post-secondary education are undoubtedly complex, but an anti-male atmosphere may play a role. Whether intentionally or not, recent campus initiatives on sexual consent—which place even the most well-intentioned men in the role of potential rapists—and on encouraging men to own their purported “privilege” have led some men to perceive that their needs and feelings are less worthy of concern than those of female students.

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'When Vice President Biden and U.S. Department of Education officials announced in 2011 landmark Title IX guidance dealing with how colleges and universities handle sexual assault, I had the incredible honor of being a guest along with my colleague Laura Dunn as we both provided input on the Dear Colleague letter. The vice president’s call to action got the attention of higher education focused on this issue like it had never been before, something that was long overdue and resonates to this day.
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The Education Department, for example, had applied a “preponderance of the evidence,” commonly referred to as “50 percent plus one,” standard in Title IX cases dating back at least as early as 1991.

Schools, however, had only been notified on a case-by-case basis about this expectation.

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'At the start of the 2016 academic year, North Carolina State University installed surveillance cameras inside select fraternity and sorority houses.

The cameras were ostensibly there to monitor entrances for security purposes, but Campus Reform has learned through multiple sources that they were set up in a manner conducive to monitoring student behavior in their personal living spaces.
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While both cameras are pointed towards nearby doorways, it was discovered after installation that the cameras were zoomed out to a degree that allowed for the observation of students in their living space, which university officials acknowledged in an email exchange obtained by Campus Reform.
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When pressed on whether or not cameras are installed in the common areas of all fraternities and sororities, Hartman simply reiterated the school’s prior defense, saying “security cameras are installed at entrances and exits, pointed at entrances and exits,” and cited the school’s policy on closed-circuit cameras.

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'A federal lawsuit filed this week by Scott Ard, editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led an illegal “purge” of male employees from the company. Two other female executives are also named as defendants in the suit.

“Mayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees,” the lawsuit claims, according to the East Bay Times. Ard is a former Yahoo employee.
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Yahoo has not yet responded to the lawsuit, except to defend its policies and performance reviews as fair, the East Bay Times reports.'

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'Dear Colleague:

Section 466(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (the Act) requires a state to have procedures for a voluntary paternity acknowledgment process. In addition, section 452(a)(7) of the Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to specify the minimum requirements of an affidavit to be used for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity and Required Data Elements for Paternity Establishment Affidavits. A notice for public comment was published in the Federal Register, on page 66285, Volume 81, Number 187, on September 27, 2016.

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'The gender enrollment gap is not a problem that only faces Transylvania University, but instead, it is a nationwide problem. Roughly 58% of the students enrolled in college in the United States are female. Is this an issue that should concern feminists? A feminist issue is an issue that concerns feminists ideologically; what then is the ideology of feminism?