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'A Georgia mother was convicted after hosting a party for her 16-year-old daughter and her friends, where she reportedly joined the kids for a game of naked Twister, according to WJBF. Police reports indicate that Rachel Lehnardt, 36, also allowed the teens to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol in her home. The reports also say that Lehnardt admitted to having sex with her daughter’s 18-year-old friend at the party.

The party was reported to authorities after Lehnardt discussed details of the incident with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor back in April 2015, and the sponsor then told the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, WJBF reported. After her arrest, Lehnardt’s attorney issued a statement saying that the allegations were exaggerated, but that “she engaged in several acts of inappropriate conduct,” as a result of alcohol abuse.

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'Reinforcing a key White House policy initiative, President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other top administrators will no longer visit colleges and universities they deem too lenient on sexual assault, according to federal officials cited by The Washington Post.

Obama, Biden, their wives and cabinet members are among those who will avoid academic institutions "whose leaders they consider insufficiently serious about pursuing sexual-assault allegations and punishing perpetrators."

The new policy forms part of a major, multifaceted campaign by the White House to render college campuses free from sexual assault.'

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'A former White House college sexual assault task force member appears to have been gunning for a University of Virginia fraternity smeared in a Rolling Stone article about a now-debunked campus gang rape, newly released emails show.

“I want to see these guys gone and I want to keep it as legally sound as possible,” UVA alum Emily Renda wrote to Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely in July 2014, several months before the Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus” was published.

At the time, Renda was working in a gender-based violence prevention program at the school. That spring she had served on the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

Renda appeared concerned that publishing the name of the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, would “create a credibility issue” and hurt the effort to have it removed.'

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'Nearly a week ago, on June 24 , his 45th birthday, Jason Sheats gathered with his family in the living room of their Houston-suburb home about 5 p.m. Beside him were his daughters, Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17. His wife, Christy, had called a family meeting.

After years of challenges with Christy’s mental health, her struggles with depression and anxiety, her suicide attempts, Jason told authorities that he thought perhaps she was going to announce she had decided to file for divorce. The couple had talked about separating.

But instead, police said, the 42-year-old mother pulled out a .38 caliber handgun, a gift from her late grandfather, and pointed it at her screaming children. Then she shot them, inside the house and out in the street, where the girls collapsed and stopped moving. When law enforcement arrived, they watched Christy fire a final bullet into her eldest daughter, then a police officer shot the mother dead.'

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'I started my career with the gruelling hours and high stress that are traditionally visited on young lawyers. You were unexpectedly ambivalent about finding a good job – or any job. After gentle pressure from me, and more from the student loan payments, you puttered around in some non-legal positions more suited for someone with half your education and intelligence, and which offered commensurately low pay.
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I’ve climbed the professional ladder reasonably well. We have the trappings of middle-class success – a nice house in a safe, quiet neighborhood; annual holidays; happy, healthy children; money saved for their college years. But it has come at enormous personal cost to me. My stress level has increased dramatically with added responsibilities at work and my health has deteriorated. People who haven’t seen me for years flinch when we meet again and I’ve attended more than one event at which I have overheard someone remarking on how much I’ve aged.

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'4. Support feminist and female media.

Is your iPod comprised of primarily male artists? Diversify, dude! Open yourself up to new perspectives by watching films written and directed by women, read articles written by female writers, listen to music performed by female artists and appreciating the artwork of female artists, like Jeanette Hayes or Grace Miceli.
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6. Believe the victim.

This is pretty straightforward. Instead of assuming the accused is innocent until proven guilty, support the victim. While it’s true that women have falsely accused men of such allegations, these cases are an extreme rarity so make the smart decision and favor the likely truth.
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10. Be responsible for contraception.

When in a relationship with a woman, don’t make contraception something she’s solely responsible for. Wear a damn condom and don’t complain about it. If she prefers a particular method of contraception, let her choose that method.

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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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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.'