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.'

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'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).”

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'"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.'

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'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.

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'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.

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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."

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'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.

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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.