Press release here. Excerpt:

'In an effort to restore due process rights on campuses, state and federal lawmakers have taken determined steps in recent weeks to press  college administrators and a federal oversight agency to uphold constitutionally based rights for students accused of sexual assault.

In the most dramatic development, Georgia Rep. Earl Ehrhart, chairman of the House appropriations committee, disapproved a $47 million funding request for Georgia Tech University over due process concerns for accused students.

Ehrhart then called out the Georgia Tech administrators. “The president and the administration are just clueless when it comes to due process on that campus and protecting all those kids. If I have to talk to another brokenhearted mother about their fine son where any allegation is a conviction and they toss these kids out of school after three and a half years, sometimes just before graduation, it’s just tragic,” Ehrhart charged (1).'

Article here. Excerpt:

'As Inside Higher Ed reported last week, the University of Texas System has come out with a manual aimed at training UT campus police officers to respond to reports of sexual assault in a more “victim-centered” way:

`Police officers at all 14 University of Texas campuses will soon be trained to follow new investigative protocols aimed at changing how campus law enforcement officers interview and support victims of sexual assault, the system announced today. A new 170-page manual, called “The Blueprint for Campus Police: Responding to Sexual Assault,” instructs the system’s 600 sworn police officers to replace “tradition with science” when investigating sexual violence.`

Article here. Excerpt:

'Farrah Abraham [link added] might want to stick to carpooling from now on.

The Teen Mom OG star was banned from using Uber after admittedly lying about getting “almost raped” by one of the car service’s drivers.

On a recent episode of her podcast, Farrah & Friends, the 24-year-old alleged that she was almost sexually assaulted by a driver while being picked up from a Long Island hotel in January 2015.

“An Uber driver almost raped me,” she revealed on the show, claiming that on-and-off boyfriend Simon Saran and the driver got into an argument afterward.

“My non-boyfriend threw him in the window and almost broke his car window,” she claimed. “The Persian dude ran after me. The cops were like, ‘You’re harassing her’ and I was like, ‘See I told you!’ and then I went to bed.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'“None of the campus administrators who branded the young men as rapists before the evidence was collected ever faced consequences, and it appears they have no remorse for their actions.

Richard Brodhead is still president of Duke, and in an interview with the Duke Chronicle, said he was "certainly at ease in my conscience" regarding the way he and his administration treated the innocent students who were falsely accused. Brodhead also said "I don't spend my time looking back on this" and said the whole incident "was distracting."

Oh, so sorry that forever tarnishing the reputations of innocent students was "distracting" for you, Mr. president.

In 2007, Brodhead showed a little more remorse, calling his actions "a mistake" and apologizing for what he had done. Yet now, Brodhead appears to be just fine with what he had done to the students and their families.

K.C. Johnson, who co-wrote the book on the case, pointed to a statement Brodhead made in 2006, in the heat of the accusation, where he presumed the guilt of his own students and blamed them for possibly being falsely accused.

"If our students did what is alleged, it is appalling to the worst degree," Brodhead said back then. "If they didn't do it, whatever they did is bad enough."

Brodhead isn't the only administrator who seems to have no remorse for his actions. Members of the "Group of 88" – faculty who distributed advertisements asking "what does a social disaster sound like?" and quotes from students condemning the lacrosse players as if they were guilty – have tried to rewrite history regarding their actions. At least 50 members of the 88 are still employed by Duke, and many others have gone on to other schools.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Liberal Democrats plan to introduce all-women, gay and disabled shortlists at the next election to reduce the culture of ‘too male and too pale’ MPs.

Potential seats will also be earmarked for Asians, blacks and other ethnic minorities, as part of sweeping changes to the social make up of the party.

The party - which was almost wiped out at the last General Election - currently has no women and all of its MPs are white.

Its leader, Tim Farron, hopes to impose-all women shortlists on seats currently held by their eights MPs should they choose to step down in 2020.

He also wants it to become the first party to have disabled-only shortlists for candidates in winnable seats.

Mr Farron will take a motion to the party’s spring conference in York this weekend designed to broaden its representation in Parliament.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The University of Oregon historian who wrote a study claiming glaciers are sexist said in an interview Friday that the general public isn’t educated enough about feminism to understand his research.

In the interview, Dr. Mark Carey claims that when his studies are “described to nonspecialists, the research can be misunderstood and potentially misrepresented.”

“People and societies impose their values on glaciers when they discuss, debate, and study them—which is what we mean when we say that ice is not just ice,” Carey said in the Friday interview with Science Magazine. “Glaciers become the platform to express people’s own views about politics, economics, cultural values, and social relations (such as gender relations).”

Article here. Excerpt:

'"What economists do is they use data to figure out whether the individuals are the same; they try to make them comparable as possible; they squeeze out these differences and productive attributes; they look for individuals who have the same education, the same labor-force participation rates over their life cycle, etc.," Goldin explains to Freakonomics Radio host Stephen J. Dubner.

When doing this, we still see a gender wage gap. But as Goldin ponders, "does that mean that women are receiving lower pay for equal work? That is possibly the case in certain places, but by and large, it's not that. It's something else."

When looking at gender earnings gaps by occupation, Goldin found something that might surprise people.

By comparing the 469 occupations in the US Census, she found that women disproportionately holding certain jobs only accounted for about 25% of the difference in earnings between men and women. Factors within each occupation overwhelmingly accounted for differences in pay.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A United States District Court judge dismissed Paul Nungesser’s Title IX lawsuit against Columbia University on Friday, saying his allegations did not constitute sex-based discrimination in a way that violated federal law.

Nungesser, who was accused of sexual assault by Emma Sulkowicz and other Columbia students, filed the lawsuit against Columbia, its trustees and President Lee Bollinger and an art professor last April. Nungesser alleged that by allowing Sulkowicz to carry her mattress in protest of his being on campus after the school found him not responsible for sexual misconduct, the school was complicit in her sex-based harassment of him.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that gender equality is a central part of his agenda -- and if it's to succeed, men need to chip in more.

"It can't just be women who are feminists. We men have to be feminists too," he said. "And it's about time we said that more often."

Trudeau has been in Washington this week for a state visit with President Barack Obama. On Friday, he spoke to a progressive audience brought together by the nonprofits Center for American Progress and Canada 2020.

When Trudeau took office in November, women made up half his Cabinet -- a higher proportion of women than in Obama's administration.'

Nice article in The Advocate. Excerpt:

'Do men need rights? The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do you advocate for men’s rights?

The first standard argument against men’s human rights is that men have no problems and should check their privilege. Second, addressing men’s problems is a misogynistic attack on women. Third, men’s problems are real, but feminism is for men too, so men’s advocacy is redundant. Fourth, women’s problems are worse, so men’s should be ignored.

Shouting “bigot” is easy. Bigots do so frequently. If you convince people your foe eats kittens you’ll trick them onto your side, but opinion isn’t everything. Ad hominem can’t turn right into wrong.

The men’s rights movement is worse than misogynist; it’s competition. If their gender relations monopoly breaks, feminists may have to start keeping their promises, or even share their countless billions in donations and government funding.

Article here. Excerpt:

'University of Pittsburgh student Doug Steeber has been harassed by his classmates following an event the College Republicans club hosted with Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

Over the past week, Steeber has been on the receiving end of a vicious campaign that has involved students calling Steeber’s parents at their home late at night. Despite the threats against Steeber and his family, the University has yet to make a statement condemning the behavior.

Yiannopoulos spoke at the University of Pittsburgh on February 29th at the invitation of the school’s College Republicans club in an event that stirred significant controversy on the campus. Although tensions were high in the days leading up to Yiannopoulos’ lecture, the event went smoothly with the exception of a few interruptions from student protesters.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Georgia State Rep. Earl Ehrhart, who holds the power of the purse over public universities in the state, is getting some results from hiscrusade to protect due process for accused students.

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Wednesdayto slightly improve the prospects for accused students in disciplinary proceedings for sexual assault (one policy) and other conduct violations (another policy) across the system.

The changes are described as a streamlining of disparate policies at each institution, and will take effect July 1. Some provisions:

“Institutions may not allow their investigators to train student conduct panels.” This appears to be a response to complaints from accused students that investigators are essentially serving as judge and jury, overriding any sort of checks and balances.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A former fixed-term faculty member pleaded guilty in January to falsely reporting a misdemeanor, after telling police she was physically assaulted because of her sexual orientation. She was sentenced last month.

Mari Poindexter, who is on leave from Central Michigan University, posted a detailed account of being assaulted for her sexual orientation on Facebook in August 2015. On Aug. 20, Poindexter told police she was harassed at a Toby Keith concert at Soaring Eagle Casino by a man who called her homophobic slurs. She is charged with two counts of falsely reporting a misdemeanor and sentenced to six months of probation.

On the night she said she was assaulted, she was at the Cabin when she said she saw the man again. Poindexter told police she left the bar to drop a friend off, then headed back to look for her keys. At this time, the man confronted her in the parking lot, she said, and punched her in the eye.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The court while acquitting Pheruddin in its judgement mentioned that the complainant had given different statements that had numerous contradictions and inconsistencies, which remain unexplained. The court also observed that considering the veracity of such cases, men implicated in false cases be called "rape case survivor".

Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma while acquitting the man said, "No one discusses the dignity and honour of a man. All are fighting for the rights, honour and dignity of women. Laws for protection of women are being made, which may be misused by a woman but where is the law to protect a man, where he is being persecuted and implicated in false cases. Perhaps, now is the time to take a stand for a man."

Article here. Excerpt:

'On the occasion of a prestigious award in her field last month, associate professor Elena Bennett in McGill University’s Natural Resources Sciences and School of Environment was interviewed by the Montreal Gazette on the subject of women and science.

Bennett focused on the well-documented post-undergrad career stall for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). She attributes the gender disproportion at the high end — U.S. women comprise about 20 per cent of tenure track positions in math, 12 per cent in physics and 10 per cent in electrical engineering — to systemic misogyny, high-intensity work environments and a lack of support for mothers. Her solution: more research grants for women, no late-afternoon meetings and fewer committee obligations.