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'NCEA is better suited to girls, two boys' school principals believe.

An analysis of NCEA results since 2004 shows the pass rate for boys at NCEA level 1 has increased by 21.3 percentage points to 81.1 per cent last year.

But girls are still doing better. Last year, 87 per cent of girls passed level 1.

A gender gap also persists at levels 2 and 3, and boys are falling even further behind girls when it comes to merit and excellence endorsements at these levels.

Only in scholarship examinations, where the country's very top pupils are assessed, boys are doing equally as well, if not better than girls.'

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'South African experts have urged government to strengthen standardisation of circumcision procedures as the act claimed a total of 24 lives since June.

According to local custom, circumcisions are normally viewed as traditional passage for young boys to enter manhood.

Dr Van Merwe, a Surgeon who had perfumed successful operation on some boys said on Friday that the government must regulate circumcision practice while preserving the traditions.'

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'After learning that on average women earn 77 to 78 cents for every dollar men make, a Brooklyn bar owner had an idea for how to close the gap, even if just for one night.

As a one-time offer on 7/7, Andy Heidel of The Way Station charged women only 77 percent of their total bar tabs to raise awareness and start a conversation about the disparity in wages between genders, The Guardian reports.

“I have three sisters. The majority of my staff and friends are women,” said Heidel. “I thought this would be a great way to even the playing field even if it was for one night only.”'

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'Silicon Valley Business Journal just reported that “Ellen Pao is resigning from Reddit after eight months of drama as interim CEO.”

Having kept her Reddit position despite losing America’s highest profile sexual discrimination lawsuits against what she called Silicon Valley’s “boy’s club,” Pao was forced out for firing a popular female employee.

When the Ellen Pao five-week-long and very salacious San Francisco trial against the elite venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for alleged sexual discrimination went to the jury on March 26, most observers assumed it was a slam-dunk that the former junior partner would win a big chunk of her demand for $16 million to compensate for sexual discrimination and up to $144 million for punitive damages.

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'Beltran-Sanchez and his colleagues began by examining common causes of death of people going back more than 200 years. They used data from the Human Mortality Database to find information about the deaths of people born between 1800 and 1935 in 13 countries across North America and Europe. Then they combined this with data from the World Health Organization’s Mortality Database to determine death rates by cause.
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While these numbers are small, they add up over time - for people born between 1900 and 1935, men were two to three times more likely to die in their 50s and 60s than were their female counterparts, the researchers wrote. This gender imbalance, which Beltran-Sanchez refers to as “excess male mortality,” is caused primarily by cardiovascular disease and smoking-related deaths, he said.

In the first part of the 20th century, smoking was much more common among men than women, Beltran-Sanchez said.'

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'Bono has a lot of fans. They adore him. They love every part of him. It’s likely the U2 front man has grown accustomed to constant adoration over the years. It’s also likely that he’s never received adoration quite as pointedly specific as that espoused by one lone protester standing outside Toronto’s Air Canada Centre this past Tuesday evening holding a sign that read: “We Support Bono’s Superb Irish Foreskin.”

That protester was Glen Callender, founder of the Foreskin Awareness Project. The Vancouverite has been standing outside of every Canadian date of U2’s current world tour to bring awareness to Bono’s public support of circumcision to prevent the spread of HIV in certain countries in Africa.

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One user said the Greens are now “the most sexist political party in the UK”:

"The Greens really are now the most sexist political party in the UK. They only want men to go to prison, men appear to be completely sidelined in the party (despite them claiming to have equality when it comes to the leadership and deputy leader position).

Can you name a current Green Party figure who isn’t female? When did you last see a male from the party sent to be their representative on TV or speaking at one of their press conferences?

Looking at Bennett’s background we see she worked for the extremist feminist organisation the Fawcett Society and therefore it’s no surprise she comes out with sexist rubbish such as this. No wonder so few males vote for the party."'

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'Colleges and universities are increasingly looking to outside judges to help adjudicate accusations of campus sexual assault.

Under pressure from the Obama administration, schools in recent years have been adjudicating accusations of sexual assault. The results have been a disaster.

First, accusers insisted that the process was rigged against them, and that facing the accused was too traumatic. So the Department of Education mandated the "preponderance of evidence" standard and "strongly discouraged" schools from allowing cross-examination. It also provided no due process rights to accused students.

This, along with threats of lost funding, encouraged schools to expel more accused students based on nothing more than accusations. Accused and expelled students began fighting back. But they didn't get the support and media attention accusers enjoyed.'

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'Due process on college campuses has become passé, and even an impediment to justice — at least according to sexual assault activists. But police officers like Susan Riseling may be giving activists a leg up.

Riseling is the chief of police and associate vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recently told a conference audience that using the records from campus sexual assault hearings could be beneficial to police investigations.

"It's Title IX, not Miranda," Riseling said. "Use what you can."
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K.C. Johnson, who co-wrote the book on the Duke Lacrosse hoax, took Riseling's comment to be an "explicit celebration" of the evisceration of due process.

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"Men should be encouraged take on at least half of all domestic chores as part of a European-wide 'strategy for equality', according to a group of Euro MPs.

A European Parliament committee has called for a Brussels-backed campaign to promote an 'equal division of domestic work'.

The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality said men needed to be pressured into doing more around the house to take the 'unequal division of family responsibilities'."

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'Student leaders have started an online petition urging the University of Minnesota to implement a new sexual-assault policy without delay.

The petition, on Change.org, has drawn more than 800 signatures in the hours since Wednesday's decision by President Eric Kaler to postpone the so-called "affirmative consent" rule until September because of concerns raised by members of the Board of Regents.

The rule, which is similar to those surfacing on college campuses throughout the country, would create a new definition of sexual assault at the U. It states that students could face disciplinary action, including expulsion, for sexual encounters unless both participants express consent through "clear and unambigous words and actions."

On Wednesday, Regent Michael Hsu asked for the delay after news reports about the policy, which critics have denounced as unrealistic and unfair, particularly when it comes to protecting the rights of the accused.'

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'Sexual assault is a serious issue that should be dealt with seriously. But the proposed solution for this problem on college campuses creates an entirely new problem. It eviscerates due process for accused students in the name of helping accusers.

The fight over campus sexual assault and due process has somehow devolved into a Republican vs. Democrat issue. The most vocal supporters of draconian sexual assault policies are Democrats like Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Claire McCaskill of Missouri. There are several prominent Republicans on a Senate bill to curb sexual assault, but none have made a name for themselves as a proponent.'

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'DNA evidence has cleared a man in two rapes in Norcross, and a woman who accused the same man of rape in Brookhaven has been arrested and charged with providing false statements, police said Tuesday.

Anamirna Cabello-Loeza, 31, surrendered July 1 and was jailed after detectives determined statements she provided in connection with the case “were not truthful,” Brookhaven police Officer Carlos Nino said in an emailed statement.'

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'I suggest they call it the Princess & the Pea Code. (Or Princess and the Penal Code?) The group seems to be on the verge of endorsing the idea that every step in any encounter that could conceivably lead to sex must be explicitly agreed to by both parties. Let’s first state that obviously, no one wants anyone raped, ever. Duh. But how far back in any encounter should we start regulating and punishing? And how fragile do we take our species for, when we state that any unwanted anything, even the grasp of a hand, is too much to bear and requires legal intervention? Shulevitz writes: