Article here. Excerpt:

'An admissions tsar has claimed a fall in boys going to university is due to the rise of female teachers in Britain's schools.

The 'dominance' of women taking classes is contributing to male students ending their academic careers early, says Ucas chief Mary Curnock Cook.

Ms Curnock Cook made the controversial comments in the foreword of a study that says girls are 75 per cent more likely to go on to university.
Currently there are 455,000 teachers at state schools across the country and 74 per cent are women.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Nine male teachers are suing their Pennsylvania school district, claiming they’re victims of an unfair and gendered pay scale that favors their female counterparts.

The federal lawsuit, filed on May 2, alleges that the Moon Area School District, located about 13 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, failed to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

The plaintiffs have accused the school district of hiring female teachers at higher pay levels while also giving them more credit for their prior teaching experience. The men claim their prior teaching experiences were not recognized at the same salary level.
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According to the civil complaint, all nine plaintiffs appear to have transferred from outside districts, where they worked for a varying number of years.

Article here. Jump the paywall by Googling the first paragraph text. Excerpt:

'More than a hundred Democratic party lawmakers have written to Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen complaining of a lack of diversity within the central bank system and a leadership that is “overwhelmingly and disproportionately white and male”.

The letter, signed by 11 senators and 116 representatives, calls on the Fed to do more to ensure its senior ranks reflect the country’s make-up in terms of gender, race and ethnicity, economic background and occupation. It also demands that the Fed place greater priority on securing full employment for minorities as it pursues its economic goals.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'During the commencement address for Florida International University, Obama national security advisor Susan Rice said that there were not enough minorities in high-ranking positions and too many elite white men.

“Minorities still make up less than 20 percent of our senior diplomats, less than 15 percent of senior military officers and senior intelligence officials,” Rice said according to prepared remarks released by the White House. ” Too often, our national security workforce has been what former Florida Senator Bob Graham called ‘white, male, and Yale.’”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Harvard administration’s recent decision to sanction unrecognized single-gender social organizations—including sororities and women’s final clubs—is not the result of Harvard somehow not listening to women.

It is the result of the Harvard administration after decades—after centuries—finally hearing feminist critique.

For generations, Harvard feminists and activists have advocated for the sanctioning or disbanding of final clubs. Now that we have it, new debates on gender and inclusiveness have come to the fore.

This debate recently took to the streets—or the Yard, where around 200 students, mostly women, protested the recent decision under the banner #hearherharvard. These women claim that sororities and female final clubs are spaces of female empowerment, and that pressuring them to go co-ed along with their male counterparts will exacerbate the problems of sexism the administration is trying to combat.

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'The GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee has seconded a call by its counterpart in the House to require women to register for a military draft, setting the stage for a significant cultural change triggered by the Pentagon's decision to lift all gender-based restrictions on front-line combat units.

Any justification for barring women from draft registration was erased last year when the Pentagon announced all military jobs would be open to women, the committee said late Thursday in a summary of its annual defense policy bill. Women must begin to sign up with the Selective Service beginning in January 2018, according to the committee's measure.

The committee added that the top officers in each of the military branches also expressed their support for including women in a potential draft during testimony before Congress.'

This article appeared in Australia today, after a story yesterday. A woman was sent home from work because she refused to wear high heels to her temp job, as per the dress code she'd agreed to. That story raised the ire of many and was widely criticised with the woman receiving lots of support. From today's opinion piece:

'WHEN I read the story about Nicola Thorp being sent home on her first day at PricewaterhouseCoopers, all because she refused to wear high heels for her job as a receptionist, a familiar feeling came over me.

Anger and annoyance, but not in the way you might think — I’m a man.

Women’s attire in the workplace can be a hot topic when it comes to gender discrimination discussions. This often leaves women feeling angry and upset, typically at men, for what they “have to go through”. However, I couldn’t disagree more.

Men have always been held to a higher standard when it comes to workplace attire. I remember reading the 44 page dress code for bank employees at UBS, the Swiss Bank. Men with a thin jawline should have Single Windsor tie knots, while guys with wider jaws should use a double.

Just two years ago, I would wear my suit on the train from north west Sydney to the CBD and home each day. The walk from the station on hot days would leave me sweaty and uncomfortable by the time I got to the office. When I arrived, I had to choose between keeping the coat off and letting everyone see me perspire through my shirt, or leave the jacket on to keep up appearances and turn myself into a walking sauna.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A large group of member of the American Law Institute have written a letter in opposition to an upcoming vote that would vastly expand the definition of sexual assault in the legal system.

The letter, signed by nearly 120 members, including lawyers, judges and law professors, highlights several concerns regarding a draft model penal code that ALI members will vote to adopt on May 17. I previously wrote about issues with the draft, but was assured by an ALI member that many of my concerns have been addressed in the current version.

The ALI members who signed this letter have copies of the draft that will be voted on this month, and it turns out there are still dangerous issues that have not been addressed that will turn every sexually active American into a criminal overnight.

Article here. Excerpt:

'With campus feminists, you simply can’t win.

Last week, Harvard announced that they were cracking down on “privilege” within their student community by banning members of single-gender organizations from holding school leadership positions.

But when Harvard announced its new policy, it stressed that the sanctions applied to both male and female single-gender organizations equally, since both male and female single-gender organizations thrived on their “privilege.”

Harvard’s resident feminists claim that all-female organizations, while just as gender-biased, are beneficial to the school’s community, whereas all-male organizations are merely breeding grounds for the present and future perpetrators of sexual crime.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The university released a report in March saying that final clubs "have a disproportionate influence on campus culture — and, more importantly, one that is in many respects negative and helps perpetuate an environment where sexual assault occurs." Since then, the university has faced intense pressure to do something about the groups.

The report takes aim at "a strong sense of sexual entitlement" in the male clubs but also zeroes in on the apparent effect of that on the female clubs. According to the report, female seniors who are members of final clubs are much more likely to have been sexually assaulted than female seniors not in the clubs.

To current and former members of female clubs, targeting their groups along with the male ones seemed excessive.

Article here. Excerpt:

'More than two hundred members of the Crimson Women’s Coalition demonstrated in Harvard Yard on Monday against a new policy that bans undergraduates from joining same-sex organizations like fraternities, sororities and especially elite “final clubs.”

The rally, called “Hear Her Harvard,” was organized by women, primarily students, who feel that the university’s new policy will destroy social spaces that women have created for mutual support on campus.
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Dean Rakesh Khurana, who has been responsible for much of the politically-correct upheaval at Harvard — including the end of the term “master” for faculty members supervising undergraduate dormitories, lest the term evoke slavery — called same-sex clubs “rife with power imbalances.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Two federal government agencies have launched an investigation into discrimination against female directors in Hollywood, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday. The news comes a year after the civil rights organization requested that the government look into hiring practices at studios.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs have been working on a wide-ranging investigation, according Melissa Goodman, a lawyer with the ACLU. The investigation was prompted by an ACLU report after the organization conducted its own two-year audit into discriminatory practices. The ACLU collected testimonials from over 50 female directors who reported sexist practices like studio-compiled “short lists” of potential directors that were almost exclusively male. In October, the Los Angeles Times reported that several female directors received surveys from the EEOC regarding gender discrimination in Hollywood.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Incensed that her husband got her “the wrong flowers and candy” for Mother’s Day, a Florida woman allegedly pummeled her spouse, according to cops who arrested her for domestic battery.

Investigators allege that Virginia Stewart, 42, attacked her spouse during an argument early Sunday in their family’s Holmes Beach residence. Cops arrived at the house in response to a 911 hangup call.

As detailed in a probable cause affidavit, Stewart quarreled with her husband about “the victim getting her the wrong flowers and candy for Mother’s Day.”

After Stewart “did throw cups around the room and break them,” she allegedly attacked her spouse, punching him several times while also striking the man in the head with a coat hanger.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'There’s nothing more insufferable than an ivory tower feminist who insists on forcing the world into a box — her box. Facebook COO-turned social justice warrior Sheryl Sandberg is on a mission. Sandberg made clear her feminist agenda several years ago, when she announced this to a group of college graduates (and later reiterated in her Lean In campaign): “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.”

A lofty goal, indeed — one that demands a complete restructuring of the way America operates. And so began Sandberg’s true occupation (because clearly, running Facebook isn’t it): to upend human nature and to change the world, one campaign at a time.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The undergraduate course "Men in Literature" was taught eight times from 2005 to 2015 at Springfield College in Massachusetts. It drew healthy enrollments and was reviewed favorably by a large majority of the students who took it. In 2010, the course was formally approved by the college curriculum committee as an addition to the offerings of the humanities department.