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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.'

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'First up: What are women?

Long-standing assumptions about the difference between men and women have been eroded in recent decades, as we begin to understand how our traditional notions of both biological sex and social gender roles impose artificial binaries on a far more fluid reality.

However, as a broad rule of thumb: Women are like men, but with better personalities, deeper friendships, and structural disadvantage imposed by societal norms.

But wait: Why do they need a whole day to themselves?

This may seem like overkill! Why should just 49.6% of the world’s population get a whole 0.27% of the year’s days to themselves? Women can often be greedy in this way, like when they live to be older than men, hogging all the life.'

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'A University of Missouri professor who was fired for trying to block a journalist from recording a campus protest is fighting back.

Melissa Click appealed the decision and is now getting support from the American Association for University Professors.

The AAUP announced Monday that it would be investigating Click's firing.

Click, an assistant professor of communications, said she was pleased by the news. She maintains that she was fired without due process when the university's Board of Curators "overstepped their authority."

According to a university spokesperson, Click was fired for failing to meet the standards expected of faculty members.'

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'We knew then that legal equality was only the starting point. We understood that real gender equity would require radical changes to macho cultural power structures. So we planned and discussed the ways we could revalue what matters and eliminate gender-biased, macho-designed cultural dominance.

Despite fixing most of the legal barriers, the cultural changes failed to follow. There were other changes happening. By the 1980s the arrival of neoliberalism as the dominant political paradigm slowed most social progress, as market models took over. These changed the political focus from progressive social change to market choices and individualised material success.
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These necessary strengths are undermined by the macho tendencies in current political directions. We need to recognise the importance of social connections, cultural needs and care of others that economics doesn’t cover; to balance material and social stability.

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'Triggered by budget concerns, the plan to cut and cap teams will follow the proportionality playbook in order to comply with Title IX’s gender quota.

Because St. Cloud State is cutting two women’s teams with four men’s teams, the only option the school has meet Title IX compliance standards is proportionality. Although there are technically three ways to comply with Title IX, only proportionality has protected schools when they face litigation.

St. Cloud State undergraduate student enrollment is almost 50%-50% with 4,492 male and 4,488 female students according to US Department of Education website http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

The site shows gender ratio of 60% male to 40% female athletes for Saint Cloud State. According to reports, the program cuts will eliminate 24 female athletes and 92 male athletes. Roster quotas on baseball, football, men’s swimming, and wrestling will eliminate more male players in order to bring the school to a 50-50% gender ratio.'