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'Taylor says the program is completely missing the real minority among teachers:

As is common at teachers’ college across the country, there’s a distinct lack of men at the University of Manitoba. Enrollment in the faculty of education is 72 per cent female, and has been that way for decades. Across the country, 75 per cent of all education degrees are earned by women. If teachers’ colleges are meant to mirror society, it can’t be overlooked that half the population is male, especially given the well-established importance of male role models in combating high drop-out rates among boys.

This is how the university justifies the gender gap:

In explaining away its complete lack of interest in correcting a massive gender imbalance within its walls, the faculty of education’s website claims, “While classroom teachers are predominantly female, those in positions of power within the teaching force (principals and superintendents) remain predominantly male.”

The only place left for men is science, technology, engineering and math, and that’s under attack:

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'A task force charged with examining sexual assault at Harvard University is recommending that the school bar students from joining its all-male final clubs, blaming the single-sex organizations for perpetuating a “harmful sexual culture” on campus.

The task force argued in a new report that the all-male organizations, which have no formal relationship with the university, should be forced to accept women in order to fix the problem of sexual assault on Harvard’s campus. The report, published this week, followed attempts by the Harvard administration to compel the all-male final clubs to accept women, an effort that the Washington Free Beacon previously reported has angered graduate members of the organizations and made current student members fear for their reputations.

The report from the Harvard Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault was accompanied by several appendices, including one from the task force’s so-called “outreach and communications subcommittee” that presented a set of “ideas” for the administration to deal with the final clubs. One of the proposals suggested that the school threaten students with expulsion if they join an all-male final club.

“Either don’t allow simultaneous membership in final clubs and college enrollment; or allow clubs to transition to all-gender inclusion with equal gender membership and leadership,” the subcommittee wrote. The latter would involve the administration “provisionally register[ing] all-gender clubs for monitoring” and “requir[ing] they have ongoing sexual assault education and assigned sober bystanders at social events.”
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'ESPN has released a new trailer for the next installment of its 30 for 30 series and it’s set to be a doozy. “Fantastic Lies” is the story of the infamous Duke lacrosse team case, and was directed by Marina Zenovich, who is famous for her Emmy-winning documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
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The film is set to debut exactly 10 years to the day from the night of the party that started the controversy, March 13, 2016.

For those not familiar with the case, on March 13, 2006 Duke’s lacrosse team threw a party. In the aftermath, Crystal Gail Mangum – a student at North Carolina Central University who had been working part-time as a stripper – alleged that she had been raped at the party. On March 15 the rape investigation went public and on April 18, team members Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were arrested and indicted on charges of first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense and kidnapping. Former team captain David Evans was indicted for the same offenses on May 15.'

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'Many Rabbis are welcoming intact males into the Jewish community, and a growing number of Rabbis feel that surgical circumcision is no longer appropriate in the 21st century. perform covenant ceremonies without surgical circumcision, and many more will do so upon request. These include Rabbis in the Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and many other branches of Judaism.

Hundreds of thousands of Jewish males around the world remain intact. Most Eastern European and South American Jews remain intact, and many Western European Jews have ceased circumcision, seeing it as a barbaric remnant of pre-civilized times. Both Reform Judaism and Humanistic Judaism welcome intact Jews.

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'The war between state Rep. Earl Ehrhart and Georgia Tech over how the way the school handles accusations of sexual assault just got kicked up a notch or two.

The Powder Springs Republican, who chairs the House committee in charge of funding Georgia universities, said Tech president Bud Peterson should resign over his school’s sexual complaint process, which he said fails to give accused students due process. Ehrhart also said he tried to send Peterson a message by slashing the school’s request for a $47 million building.
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The legislator said Peterson needs to “clean house and recognize that people are innocent until proven guilty.”

“We grant that to criminals, why not to students?” he asked.'

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'Do you feel helpless to change the family courts of Massachusetts? Do you feel you can’t fight the system? You’ve spent $80,000 on legal fees and all it got you was every other weekend?

This is the moment when you CAN change the system. Two critical issues hang in the balance this week in Massachusetts. If you call your legislators on Beacon Hill RIGHT NOW (details below) - and get a couple of friends or family to do the same - you can topple mountains. And you can support two crucial bills with one call!
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S834 has a lot of support and momentum on Beacon Hill. But it is opposed by the bar associations -- the lawyers. And its fate hangs in the balance right now in the Judiciary Committee.

Please call your STATE SENATOR TODAY and ask him/her to support S834. You can find out the name and phone number of your senator HERE.'

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'Those urging Hollywood to close the pay and opportunity gap for women directors should cast an envious eye to Canada.

The National Film Board of Canada, the country's government-funded film producer, on Tuesday announced it will ensure at least half of its productions will be directed by women, and half of all production financing will go towards helping women tell their own stories.

"Today, I’m making a firm, ongoing commitment to full gender parity, which I hope will help to lead the way for the industry as a whole," NFB head Claude Joli-Coeur said in a statement. The public filmmaker backs auteur documentaries, animation, digital projects and feature films by homegrown filmmakers.'

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'With the role of men in society evolving, and a power shift toward women at work and home, the "traditional" male is dying out, according to author Jack Myers.

Myers argues men will "be increasingly defined, dominated, and controlled by women" in his new book, "The Future of Men: Masculinity in the Twenty-First Century."

"These young men are not their fathers, they're not their grandfathers. Young men who are growing up more and more in fatherless homes, growing up in homes where the woman is out-earning her husband, where they're both working -- they're not just defying traditional gender norms," Myers said Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."

Myers said younger men are "out-educated by women" and being "out-performed" by women economically, defining the last generation of "traditional" men as those in their late 20s.'

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'Congratulations, taxpayers of America: You’ve just spent $412,930 on a “scientific” paper on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.”

That’s what the National Science Foundation dropped on “Glaciers, gender and science,” 10,000-plus words of gobbledygook from University of Oregon prof Mark Carey.

Sure, that’s roughly 40 bucks a word — but many of them are big words.

The study urges scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial” approach when studying melting ice caps and climate change. Hey, it’s not really global doom unless it comes with full-bore cutting-edge social-justice buzzwords.

Another taste: “The feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.”'

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'Uriah Burke began his talk with a warning.

The Ph.D. philosophy student cautioned the audience that his lecture slides depicted “extraordinarily graphic” images of people in pain and invited those sensitive to such images to avert their eyes or leave the classroom.

The images in question did not depict battlefield carnage or grotesque violence, but a familiar and widespread surgical practice that several of the students gathered in Park Hall were likely to have experienced firsthand.

According to the National Hospital Discharge Survey, almost 70 percent of males born in the northeastern United States in 1994 underwent circumcision, the surgical removal of the foreskin.

The practice of female circumcision, the removal of all or part of the clitoris, is a far more controversial practice, practiced mainly in East Africa.

This article appears in the men's lifestyle section:

1. Multitasking
2. Job interviews
3. Driving
4. Empathising
5. Running successful businesses
6. Coding
7. Not being ill

In contrast, check out the seven things men are definitely better at than women. (written by a man)

1. Drinking
2. Going bald
3. Getting ready
4. Going to the toilet standing up
5. Shopping
6. Making it to the end of the street without being ogled
7. Ageing

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'Pretty Curious, a U.K. program aimed at getting girls interested in STEM careers, asks on its website, “Why aren’t more girls pursuing science?” Some critics of the program think the answer may have something to do with Pretty Curious granting a 13-year-old boy the winner in a STEM competition this week.

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'Occam’s Razor says that the simpler explanation is the preferred one.

Students seem oblivious to simple answers when it comes to anything involving sexual harassment and assault on campus, though.

That explains why they are rising up against a facially ludicrous punishment against an alleged rapist at Gustavus Adolphus College, Inside Higher Ed reports.

The Minnesota liberal arts college, which is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, required a student found responsible for sexual assault to write a 500-word essay, work “with a mentor” and abstain from “some campus activities,” according to his accuser, Shentoria Cobbs.'

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'International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the vast achievements of women worldwide, while acknowledging the real struggles and oppression millions of women and girls continue to face, including violence, inequality under the law and limited access to education.

It is not a time to push faulty pay gap statistics.

Yet that is exactly what happened yesterday. Ahead of International Women’s Day, Robert Half – a specialised recruitment agency – calculated that women in the UK will earn roughly £300,000 less than their male counterparts throughout their career, putting their estimated pay gap figure between men and women at 24%.

Story here. One more for the false allegations file.

'Denver police say the report of a woman kidnapped in broad daylight, in the middle of the afternoon on Valentine's Day didn't happen.

Last month, the woman told police van pulled up to the corner of E. Hampden Ave. and S. Yosemite St. on February 14 and the men inside solicited her for sex. The victim told police that when she refused, the men forcibly kidnapped her, but she managed to escape.

"Through the course of the investigation, detectives determined there is no danger or threat to the community regarding this incident," Denver police said Tuesday.

When asked for more information, officials said, "After further investigation, the report was determined to be unfounded (the incident didn't occur)."

Denver police have not yet said if the woman will face charges.'