Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 13:03
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'An army of men’s rights activists are outraging over the Ministry of Women and Child Development’s latest draft on the National Women’s Policy. With the ministry inviting suggestions, men’s rights activists have taken it upon themselves and over the comments section to vehemently oppose the draft policy.
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50% of reservation for women in local bodies election means, the percent of elected women in local bodies will be between 50% to 100% whereas men will have 0% to 50% only. There is a probability of 0% place for men in local civic bodies governance. This is against the Constitution right of equality,” writes Sahayaselvam.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 12:59
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'The number of victims on campus continues to rise as not much is actually done about it. There is a pool of knowledge around the topic of Title IX and campus rape, but no one is really providing any actions. Victims of sexual assault are courageously speaking up, the Vice President has provided verbal support for one particular rape victim; yet no one is moving closer to action. No one is even discussing reforming the power to prosecute or not prosecute given to college administrators. The consequences are sexual predators remaining on college campuses, and lives of those who haven’t done anything wrong absolutely destroyed.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 12:56
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'The senators noted that only 9 percent of some 11,000 schools reported any occurrence of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking, according to the most recent data provided under the Clery Act.
The reports that there were no incidents of sexual assault on 9-in-10 campuses “directly conflict” with a swath of peer-reviewed research that show around 1-in-5 female students will experience sexual assault by the time they graduate college.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2016-07-02 05:23
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'The tech industry is plagued by guilt about the lack of women in its technical teams — and everywhere else. But new data suggests that there’s no hiring bias against them. Women might just suck at job interviews, according to a new report by an interview matchmaking service.
Interviewing.io, a service which allows interviewers and interviewees to match up online and conduct interviews based on their communication skills recently set out to fix the “gender gap in tech” by creating a voice changer that would allow interviewees to mask their voice, and in turn their gender, in an attempt to tackle bigoted interviewers.
What the study revealed – to the shock of the feminists who organized it – was that women underperform in job interviews even when the interviewer believes them to be male.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-07-01 10:12
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'Feminist male-bashing has come to sound like a cliche — a misogynist caricature. Feminism, its loudest proponents vow, is about fighting for equality. The man-hating label is either a smear or a misunderstanding.
Yet a lot of feminist rhetoric today does cross the line from attacks on sexism into attacks on men, with a strong focus on personal behavior: the way they talk, the way they approach relationships, even the way they sit on public transit. Male faults are stated as sweeping condemnations; objecting to such generalizations is taken as a sign of complicity. Meanwhile, similar indictments of women would be considered grossly misogynistic.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-07-01 09:25
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'To increase male student retention and combat sexual violence, one California university is offering a “safe space” for male-identifying students to discover their authentic masculinity.
“Dudes Understanding Diversity and Ending Stereotypes (DUDES) is a traveling Men’s Center, housed in the Campus Diversity and Inclusion Center for students who identify as Men, as well as women, transgendered students, and male allies,” the University of Redlands states on its website.
The DUDES Resource Center, the description elaborates, “provides support for students who would like a safe space to talk about men’s issues, get involved on campus, and discuss issues regarding masculinity, media, gender roles, etc.”
DUDES is one of five “Gender Programs” at Redlands that are designed to supplement the work of the Women’s Center and the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. The other initiatives include a “Masculinity Discussions” series, as well as three programs that provide resources and support for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2016-07-01 00:23
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'Is the worm starting to turn in Nebraska? All of a sudden it appears that the Legislature may be pointing the finger of blame at the courts and the courts are pointing it right back.
The question arises from a couple of adoption cases that the Nebraska Supreme Court decided on June 24th. The exact nature of the companion cases is too complicated to go into here, but the high points are these:
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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2016-06-30 21:56
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'Even though economist after economist has debunked the gender wage gap over and over again (it’s more accurately referred to as an "earnings gap"), some in the media just can’t let it go.
Enter Danielle Paquette of the Washington Post, who wrote an article on the website’s “Wonkblog” section titled “Men say they work more than women. Here’s the truth.”
Paquette attempts to explain away the fact that the Department of Labor repeatedly finds men who work both full-time and part-time are working more hours than women in the same categories. Her assertion is that the statistics only show reported hours.
“Let's start with a few massive caveats in the Labor Department's report. First, the researchers asked each respondent to log their own time. Nobody submitted manager-approved work hours, and research tells us one of the sexes generally tends to overestimate,” Paquette wrote. “Secondly, the survey didn't measure productivity or efficiency. Workaholism isn't necessarily a sign of value.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-06-30 01:42
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'In the past several decades, women have not only caught up to men in earning college degrees, they have surpassed them.
Men made up 43 percent of the students enrolled in college in 2015, and were awarded 40 percent of bachelor’s degrees, according to federal data cited in a new study that traces the gender gap all the way back to preschool.
The study, done by the American Sociological Association, finds that boys start kindergarten with fewer of the behaviors that teachers want — such as paying attention, controlling emotions and playing nice with others, and that difference partly accounts for higher high school and college completion rates for women.
The study also finds that schools respond more harshly to boy’s transgressions and that difference also contributed to men not getting as far in their educations.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2016-06-30 01:39
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'Absent dads may be contributing to the growing male gender gap in higher education, according to research published by a professor at Brigham Young University.
Brian Willoughby, an assistant professor in the School of Family Life, was one of three authors that recently published a study in the journal “Family Relations” looking at whether the declining rate of males enrolling in college has been influenced by nonmarital birth rates and father absences.
What they found was that the gender gap opened up about 18 years after family structure changes in the late 1960s.
“I think we need to continue to talk about fathers and talk about their importance in our culture as we get more and more messages that they don’t matter,” Willoughby said.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-06-29 22:54
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'A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by three former University of Virginia fraternity members who accused Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and a journalist of defamation over a since retracted article describing a gang rape.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said details about the attackers in the November 2014 article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely were "too vague and remote" to make readers, family and friends believe that the plaintiffs George Elias IV, Ross Fowler and Stephen Hadford had a role in the alleged rape.
"In the plaintiffs' own words, any 'apparent connection between the plaintiffs and the allegations is an (unfortunate) coincidence,'" Castel wrote.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-06-29 22:51
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'In case after case, we are seeing collateral charges being “stacked” on top of sexual misconduct charges to ensure that the accused is found guilty of “something.” The attitude seems to be, “if we can’t get you for rape, we’ll get you for not turning in that old pair of boots six years ago.”
In order to bolster the charges, investigators contact women who had a prior relationship with the accused and implore them to get a “rapist off the streets.” These women include former wives, girlfriends, or any other female with whom the accused service member had an intimate relationship. This practice has been documented in recent Army cases involving Sergeant First Class Kelly Stewart, Major Christian “Kit” Martin, Major Eric Burris, and Air Forces cases involving Master Sergeant Michael Silva and Major Michael Turpiano.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-06-29 22:48
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'Men work more hours than women in both full-time and part-time jobs, while women still shoulder most of the housework, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The BLS study, using data from 201,5 shows employed men, on average, work 42 minutes more per day than women. While that figure is partially attributed to women working more part-time jobs than men, among full-time employees, men worked 8.2 hours per day compared to women’s 7.8 hours.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-06-29 22:45
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'The Texas mom from hell blew away her two daughters in front of her shocked husband — because she wanted to punish him, according to a new report.
Deranged killer Christy Sheats called her husband’s bluff during a nasty confrontation that culminated in the murders of her two daughters on Friday, family friend Madison Davey told KTRK.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2016-06-29 22:44
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'In her Thursday letter “Helping young woman could prevent a rape,” Holly Richard’s "if they say they have been raped they have been raped" line of reasoning is faulty but, more importantly, it is dangerous to the foundation of the American justice system.
It shows a lack of knowledge of the research on the subject. There are so many documented cases of false rape charges that the system is bogged down trying to deal with them all. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that “the number of false rape cases ranges in studies from 2 percent to 90 percent of reported rape cases,” depending on which study you read. (“False accusations bog down real rape cases,” April 10, 2011)
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