Article here. Excerpt:

'Elana Schlenker is starting a pop-up shop called 76<100 in Pittsburgh, where she charges women 76% of the retail price of any item, while men are charged the full ticket price. (In Pennsylvania, women earn 76 cents on the dollar.) Says Schlenker, "It's incredible how deeply unconscious biases still permeate the ways in which we perceive (and value) women versus men. I hope the shop's pricing helps to underscore this inherent unfairness and to create space for people to consider why the wage gap still exists."
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Elana Schlenker is starting a pop-up shop called 76<100 in Pittsburgh, where she charges women 76% of the retail price of any item, while men are charged the full ticket price. (In Pennsylvania, women earn 76 cents on the dollar.) Says Schlenker, "It's incredible how deeply unconscious biases still permeate the ways in which we perceive (and value) women versus men. I hope the shop's pricing helps to underscore this inherent unfairness and to create space for people to consider why the wage gap still exists."

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'April 14 is feminists’ misconceived Equal Pay Day.

That’s the day of the year, they say, when all women’s wages, allegedly only 78% of all men’s, “catch up” to what men have earned the year before. The fairy tale is that women have to work those extra months to get their fair share.
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American women are winners, although it’s hard to believe from the Equal Pay Day rhetoric. Department of Education data show that in 2012, the latest available, they earned 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 60% of master’s degrees and 51% of doctorates, as well as almost half of doctor of medicine and law degrees. The unemployment rate for adult women, at 4.9%, is now lower than that for adult men, at 5.1%.

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'The statistics defining the problem became a source of debate. The "one in five" researcher called that finding, from two campuses, not nationally representative, and its definition of "sexual assault" turned out to include offenses some people might not have put in that category, like "forced kissing" and rubbing up against someone over clothes. Reliable evidence was hard to find. "Researchers have been unable to determine the precise incidence of sexual assault on American campuses," a report by the National Institute of Justice had concluded several years earlier, because results depend on "how the questions are worded and the context of the survey." The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found a rate of six in 1,000, although underreporting, widely recognized as a problem, seemed substantial there.
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The conversation about campus sexual assault is dominated by two poles: One declares it a crisis, the other dismisses it as a panic. In fact, it has become both. And as long as candor and nuance remain elusive, so will progress.
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While there are no more chaperones, expectations for moral guidance and institutional control have emerged in "affirmative consent" standards in students' sexual encounters. The old norm was "no means no," but on a growing number of campuses, it's now "no unless yes." Colleges are interceding in students' private lives to set stricter rules than exist in the wider world, and some students are clamoring for it.
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When it comes to sex, college women expect both freedom and safety, and why shouldn't they? But tensions arise between erotic agency and vulnerability, Michelle Goldberg writes for The Nation. "The politics of liberation are an uneasy fit with the politics of protection."

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'A student on suspension from San Diego State University has sued the school over the way it is handling an investigation against him for sexual misconduct.

Attorney Domenic Lombardo, who is representing student Francisco Sousa, said his clients has been denied due process and is not even sure about the specifics of the accusations against him.

Sousa, an international transfer student from Portugal, was arrested Dec. 9 and charged with false imprisonment and forcible oral copulation of a female SDSU student. The charges were later dropped, but he remains suspended and has since enrolled in another school.

Lombardo filed a writ of mandate in San Diego County Superior Court on April 2 to get access to specific accusations he said led to Sousa’s suspension. The evidence could be used later in a hearing to determine whether Sousa should be expelled from the school for violations of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination on college campuses.'

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'Hannah McWhirter, 21, engaged in the midnight ménage-a-trois with a friend and her husband.

She even exchanged texts with the couple after their threesome telling them how much she enjoyed herself.

But she soon changed her tune when the husband told her boyfriend about their steamy hook-up and claimed she had been raped.

McWhirter appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court today where she admitted wasting police time with false rape claims.'

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'A married woman who falsely claimed she had been raped by a taxi driver in Midlothian has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service.

A major inquiry was launched after Chantal Clark, 36, from Dalkeith, claimed she had been sexually assaulted by the driver in May 2014.

Clark later pleaded guilty to a charge of falsely making a rape claim.

She had engaged in consensual sex with the driver, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how the investigation resulted in the man appearing in court on a rape charge.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new study by two Cornell professors suggests faculty in several different STEM fields actually favor women by a more than 2-to-1 margin over identically-qualified men.

The belief that women face substantial discrimination when trying to enter scientific fields is an article of faith for the American left.

Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Cici published their study on Monday as part of their work for the Cornell Institute for Women in Science. The pair created a lengthy set of fictional job-seekers in four fields: Biology, economics, psychology and engineering. Many of the fictional profiles were pairs, with identical resumes differing only in being either male or female. They sent slates of job candidates to more than 800 faculty members at 371 colleges in all 50 states, asking them to rank them in order of hiring preference.

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'BRZEZINSKI: No, like Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio. There is no comparison. Maybe this is my ideology, but I’m sorry, but that’s a little boy and that’s an experienced accomplished woman who’s been elected to the Senate twice, who served First Lady, who served as Secretary of State.'

Wikipedia on Mika Brzezinski here.

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'Of course, with her deep connections to Saudi sheiks and Silicon Valley squillionaires, you might mistake her for the kind of person the deck is stacked in favour of. But never mind. It’s the image that counts!

Ms. Clinton’s only claim to underdog status is that she’s a woman. The last time she ran for president, she played this down because she thought it was a liability. This time, she’s going to milk it for all it’s worth. So don’t expect to hear a lot about foreign policy for now. (All things considered, that may be just as well.) Instead, you will be hearing a lot about the joys of being a grandmother.
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... In the interview, Chelsea explains there are two reasons why her mom deserves to be president. First, because it would be a major breakthrough for women everywhere. Second, because the world would be a better place if women were in charge. Women, she says, have been able “to build more consensus so that decisions have longer-term effects, whether in economic investments or in building social capital.”

The idea that women lead differently than men – and also better – is much in vogue these days. They’re more caring and compassionate. They believe in compromise and consensus, not conflict and power struggles. These skills are said to be crucial in a world that’s becoming networked, not hierarchical. Women are supposed to be naturally better at soft power (diplomacy, negotiation, relationship-building), when soft power is what our age needs most. In other words: Hillary would make sure those old boys get along!

Article here. Excerpt:

'For a lot of men, there are two dirty f-words in the English language: the four-letter one we hear at football matches and, at the risk of having faecal matter posted through my letterbox, the term ‘feminist’.

I don’t say this because men oppose equality – not at all. But, rather, because feminism often goes hand-in-hand with toxic and misleading anti-men sentiments.

American writer Andrea Dworkin once said she wanted ‘to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig’, while author Sally Miller Gearhart suggested (in all seriousness) that ‘the proportion of men be reduced to, and maintained at, 10 per cent of the human race’.

Even Jilly Cooper, queen of the bonkbuster, famously asserted that ‘the male is a domestic animal which, if treated with fairness, can be trained to do most things.’

Article here. Excerpt:

'Equal Pay Day is coming up on April 14. That means it's time for false statistics and legal claims from groups pushing for more rules and red tape governing employee pay, such as the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act.

On April 10, Linda D. Hallman, Executive Director of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), sent a mass email containing two false claims. The first alleged that "women have to work almost four months longer than men do to earn the same amount of money for doing the same job."  This is a fundamental misinterpretation of a statistic that itself is obsolete and years out of date. 

It is based on a much-repeated and much-debunked statistic that women make 77 percent as much as men do. That statistic was obsolete in 2013, when former Chief Labor Department economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth noted:

In case you missed it, article here. Well, I have to admit, I called it wrong. I had her for sure not running. Maybe she will for a time and then drop out after more cash flows into the Clinton Coffers, I dunno. Under normal conditions I might say, "Just sit back and watch the fun," but the stakes are too high. Resistance is *far* from futile. We're stuck, for all practical purposes, with one of two candidates now: The Hildebeast and whoever gets the GOP nod since the Demo party result is a foregone conclusion. If ever there was a time to be politically active during an election year, 2015-2016 is it. Excerpt:

'Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.

“I’m running for president,” she said with a smile near the end of a two-minute video released just after 3 p.m.

“Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion,” Mrs. Clinton said. “So I’m hitting the road to earn your vote — because it’s your time. And I hope you’ll join me on this journey.”

The announcement came minutes after emails from John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, alerting donors and longtime Clinton associates to her candidacy.

Mr. Podesta said that Mrs. Clinton would meet soon with voters in Iowa and host a formal kickoff event some time next month.

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'A Vancouver Island teacher who was falsely accused of raping and torturing a student is seeking compensation after the girl's claims were found to be based on a popular TV crime show.
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Barber was arrested, then suspended. But charges were never laid due to a lack of evidence.

The Qualicum school district hired lawyer Marli Rusen to look into the case. Her 2013 investigation supported the student's allegations, and recommended that Barber be banned from the school district altogether. Soon after, Barber was fired.

The longtime teacher with a spotless record fought for his job. Ultimately, an arbitration hearing uncovered that all of the student's claims were lifted from the TV show "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." The girl testified that she had watched every episode of the drama at least three times, and some as many as 10 times.
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The student responded that the similarities between her stories and the show was just a coincidence.

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'On the main campus of Pennsylvania State University, the editors of The Daily Collegian published a 433-word editorial arguing that Rolling Stone’s fabricated, completely retracted article, “A Rape on Campus” demonstrates that “false accusations” of rape “are extremely unlikely.”

In the bizarre, unsigned Thursday op-ed, The Daily Collegian laments the fact that the Phi Kappa Psi chapter at the University of Virginia is now suing over damages caused by the Nov. 19 article by disgraced journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
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"The most important thing to come out of this failed journalism is the concept that sexual assault is a huge problem on college campuses, and false accusations are extremely unlikely,” the editors of The Daily Collegian declare. “We cannot let this situation hurt and set back sexual assault reporting and investigating.”
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“While we understand the fraternity may have a right to legal action, we don’t support its decision to pursue a case,” they lecture.

“With all of the media covering of this case, it has become general knowledge the fraternity’s name has been cleared and the article has been retracted.”
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Notably, Erdely did not apologize to Phi Kappa Psi.

Story here. A good review of the South Carolina child support system. Excerpt:

'But Scott, who was killed on Saturday by police officer Michael Slager in North Charleston, South Carolina, had also long struggled to pay child support. In 2008, he went to jail for a full six months after falling behind by $6,800 in child support payments, according to The Associated Press. Scott spent one night in jail in both 2011 and 2012, again because he owed thousands in child support. At the time of Scott’s death, there was a warrant out for his arrest due to failure to make child support payments. (Scott also had a history of convictions and arrests for other offenses, according to The Post And Courier, a Charleston paper.)

The knowledge of the arrest warrant for failed payments is likely what spurred Scott to run from Slager on Saturday during a traffic stop over a broken taillight.
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In 2009, Patterson conducted a survey of 33 county jails in South Carolina, which found that one out of every eight inmates -- or 13.2 percent of the inmate population -- was behind bars for contempt of civil court after falling behind on child support payments. In Charleston County, where Walter owed his back payments on child support, Patterson’s survey found that over 15 percent of inmates had been imprisoned for not paying child support. In a handful of the other counties studied, the figure was as high as 20 percent.

Patterson told The Huffington Post in an interview that most states are more forgiving than South Carolina when it comes to child support payments. In general, there is no set number of days after which the debtor automatically goes to a contempt hearing.