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'POLICE officers have rejected “rigid” gender recruitment quotas amid claims they will compromise public safety by lowering standards.

The Police Association has criticised the imposition of a 50-50 recruitment policy it says dictates gender is more important than ability when selecting new officers.

Opposition to the quota — introduced on January 1 this year — comes as new figures reveal 22 per cent fewer men would be recruited as police officers because of their gender.

Police have denied excluding men or lowering standards, saying the 50-50 recruitment policy is a “win-win situation” for the community and people wishing to become officers.

It says recruiting equal numbers of men and women is part of a plan to promote a modern, professional workforce.

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'Half of women sitting on corporate boards of directors around the world support quota systems to fix stubborn gender imbalances in the boardroom, but less than 10 percent of their male colleagues agree, said a study released this week.

Female directors are also more likely than men to approve of term limits and mandatory retirement ages to change corporate board membership, said the survey by Harvard Business School researchers, the WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Foundation and Spencer Stuart, a consulting firm.

Asked how they arrived in their board appointments, 39 percent of women said their gender was a significant factor.

Just 1 percent of men said the same, said the survey released on Wednesday.

Men and women were divided as well on the reasons that female board membership remains low, said the survey, which culled responses from more than 4,000 male and female directors from 60 nations.

Male directors, particularly older men, say there is a "lack of qualified female candidates," it said.

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'So what are we going to do about it? There’s a possible solution that may sound outlandish — even sexist — that nonetheless deserves consideration: quotas.

The term “quota” smacks of negative connotations and is badly in need of a rebranding, but let’s put that aside and focus on substance.

According to the nonprofit organization Representation2020, about 110 countries around the world employ some sort of quota in an effort to elect more women, including Argentina, Sweden, Mexico, Spain, Senegal, Nepal, the Philippines and Australia.

The design of the models varies broadly. In some countries gender quotas are constitutionally enshrined; in others they are established by election law. In some places they apply only to sub-national elections, while in others political parties voluntarily adhere to quotas in selecting their candidates.

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'Love guns? Enjoy hunting or target practicing? Are you a concealed carry permit holder? Watch out! You just may be Senator Gillibrand’s (D-NY) latest target. Gillibrand told Politico’s Glenn Thrush that gun control is, in fact, a “women’s issue” and should be rebranded as such.

“This debate is relegated to the men. It’s about hunting? It has nothing to do with hunting,” Gillibrand explained on Thrush’s podcast. “Nothing in this debate has to do with hunting, and nothing in this debate has to do with the Second Amendment rights. Nothing… I think – I see the world in the lens of women’s issues. I’m making everything a woman’s issue. I want guns to be a woman’s issue.”

Yes, you heard that right. If you’re a man and you have a firearm, then you should have little to no say in what happens with gun-related legislation.

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'Rose McGowan shared an idea for the rest of the lineup. "Those 17 who are not women should be forced to walk down the red carpet in high heels," she told The Hollywood Reporter, referencing the fest's "flatgate" controversy last year, during which it was rumored that women would be required to wear heels on the Croisette. "There are so many levels of embedded misogyny that people don't even realize; it starts with, 'You have to wear high heels,' and goes to 'We don't accept you as a filmmaker.'"

"The reality is, most of these men are not great," McGowan continued. "What's good now is considered 'great,' and what's mediocre is considered 'good.' That has to change."

With a hopeful smile, she added, "I figure, if the boys aren't doing it right, step aside."'

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'One of the more irritating aspects of the current feminist revival is the steady stream of nasty commentary about men and male behavior, often on a very personal level -- often accompanied by the use of "man-" as a derogatory prefix ("manspreading," "mansplaining," even "manslamming" -- thankfully that one didn't take). The latest addition to the genre comes from New York Times op-ed contributor Julia Baird, who proposes "manologue" as a term for the (alleged) tendency of male speakers to hog the floor and go on and on and on.

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'Lena Dunham, creator of “Girls,” is very glad to be, well, a girl.

At the New York Women in Communications organization’s annual Matrix Awards luncheon on Monday, she revealed her true feelings during a game of “Plead the Fifth” with host Andy Cohen and the crème of media executives and influencers onstage. For the game, participants may choose not to answer some provocative questions. (A sample: “Which of your clients is the biggest PR nightmare?”) Dunham took no such easy route when Cohen asked what she would do if she woke up one day as a man.

“Kill myself,” she replied, laughing.

Actor and activist Gloria Steinem later introduced Dunham onstage with a reminder that the writer-director-producer’s response was completely in character.'

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'Ontario just announced that, starting in September, boys in the province will get the HPV vaccine, a cancer-fighting shot that’s been publicly funded and available to girls in the province since 2007. Across Canada, girls have been getting HPV shots for years, but in most places, boys still aren’t vaccinated. In fact, just three provinces include boys in their school-based programs: Alberta, PEI, and Nova Scotia. Manitoba and Quebec are going to start vaccinating boys soon, too.

But even then, there will be four provinces, and two territories, where only girls get a publicly funded HPV shot. In those places, most boys won’t get vaccinated. The human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted infection in Canada, and around the world. So why is it still seen as a female problem?

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'Women-only ride-sharing services certainly seem to make sense following a spate of reports in which female passengers have been allegedly attacked, sexually assaulted and discriminated against by both Uber and traditional taxi drivers.

But how can a segregated ride service exist today at the exclusion of men? Isn’t that discriminatory?

“In the context of a women-only ride share program I don’t think it would breach the human rights code,” says Nicole Simes, an employment and human rights lawyer at MacLeod Law Firm in Toronto. “Presumably the purpose is to reduce sexual violence and harassment against women which is a justifiable reason for the differential treatment.”

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'The manspreading menace is sweeping the nation, and threatens to cripple our already crumbling infrastructure, which is why officials in California are taking decisive action to eradicate it.

Men (or women) with problematically wide stances could face hefty fines after the San Francisco transit board approved a strict “one ticket, one seat” policy. Los Angeles transit officials will consider a similar measure in the coming months.

Offenders will be fined $100 for the first violation, $200 for a second offense within a 12-month period, and $500 for each repeat violation within five years. It is unclear how the new rule will be enforced.

Manspreading is real, and can happen to you and your loved ones.'

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'RHODES university returned slowly and "sensitively" to its academic programme on Monday, although the rape culture on campus remained the subject of campus debate and protest.

Last week’s High Court interdict against unlawful activities on the campus remained in place, despite heated argument from campaigners and an intervention from 36 Rhodes academics, who urged that the restraint be lifted as an "act of good faith".
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The problematic issue remains the activists’ demands that any student accused of rape or sexual assault be evicted from a residence and classes during the investigation, and that investigations proceed immediately against students named on the so-called reference list.

The SRC said vice-chancellor Sizwe Mabizela would not accede to this demand because he was not prepared to defy section 35(3) of the South African constitution, which stated that a person was innocent until proven guilty.'

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'This isn’t Rihanna’s first murder. She walks through a strip club’s red velvet curtains in her new (and NSFW—again, this is a strip club) music video “Needed Me,” holding a gun with a silencer. She has a practiced hand. In the backroom, she hits her mark, a man who throws a wad of cash towards her. One shot and he crumples. Two, he falls to the floor. She fires a third for good measure.
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Though these depictions of murder are the most explicit crimes against men committed therein, Rihanna’s entire visual discography is actually a master class in misandry. Not in how to hate men, per se (and certainly not in how to literally murder them), but in how to act like they really, truly could not matter less to you. If there’s anything Rihanna doesn’t give a fuck about in her videos, it’s men.

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'Suspended CSU-Pueblo football player Grant Neal speaks out in a 'Kelly File' exclusive.'

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'A Colorado State student who claims he was falsely accused of rape says a "Dear Colleague" letter from an assistant secretary of the Department of Education encourages colleges to deny male students due process.

As universities' responses to rapes, sexual assaults and harassment have become nationwide news, increasing numbers of young men have sued their colleges, claiming they have been suspended or expelled, though the women acknowledged that the sex was consensual.

Colorado has seen at least two such discrimination lawsuits in the past three years.

In 2015, Colorado University at Boulder paid a student $15,000 in a settlement after he was found guilty of sexual assault in 2013.'

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'After a 70-year-old man committed suicide by consuming poison in police custody, police Saturday lodged a case of abetment to suicide against the man who allegedly lodged against him a “false” case of rape attempt on his minor daughter.

Om Prakash’s family has alleged that the “false” FIR was a fallout of a monetary dispute between him and the girl’s father, Addl SP Pankaj Kumar said, quoting from the complaint filed by Prakash’s son Manoj.

He added that they were yet to lodge a complaint against the officers whose “dereliction” resulted in the man’s death in custody. “The decision in this regard will be taken by the SSP, who is not in the district now,” he said.

Prakash’s family has said the girl’s father had “threatened” to lodge a “false” complaint against him. Prakash, a farmer, had reportedly replied that he would consume poison if any “false charge” was levelled against him.'