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'California’s so-called “yes means yes” legislation, which returned to the state Senate for a vote on Assembly amendments, would require college students to get “affirmative” and ongoing consent during sexual encounters.

How exactly a person can prove such consent following a sexual-assault allegation is anyone’s guess, including a bill co-sponsor’s. One expert’s plausible suggestion: Make a sex tape every time.

Brooklyn College history professor K.C. Johnson, co-author of a book on the Duke lacrosse rape case, told the Washington Examiner that “recording the entire sexual encounter” from start to finish may be the only foolproof solution:

Of course, Johnson noted, “such a recording could in and of itself violate criminal law and college policies.”

As for ensuring that consent is “ongoing,” Johnson said “California students would be wise to interpret the measure as stringently as possible — that is, there must be consent for every single stage of the activity.”

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'Hundreds of people have hung bras around Valladolid's city hall in a protest to demand the resignation of the Spanish city's mayor after he warned men to be wary of false accusations of sexual assault.

Monday's protest came days after mayor Francisco Javier León de la Riva told a Spanish radio station that rape allegations should be carefully scrutinised. "Sometimes it's the other way around. Imagine you get into an elevator and there is a girl who is out to get you. She enters with you, tear off her bra or skirt and flees, shouting that you have tried to assault her," he said. "Beware of this kind of thing."

The mayor, from the conservative People's party, said women bear some of the responsibility in avoiding assault. Noting that "you can't have a police officer in every park," he said "at six in the morning a young woman should be careful of where she goes."'

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'And I'm going on record to say that it's not just my husband. I'm prepared to throw a large majority of men under the bus here, although not Clint Eastwood or my grandfather. So there are of course exceptions.

But according to women everywhere, men just can't handle the pain. They wheeze and whine, they moan and complain, they need fretting over and fussing, while the wives nurse the baby while standing up, cooking dinner and overseeing homework, all with a 103 temperature, a broken leg and three broken arms. Yeah, three.

It makes me rethink some of the turns of phrase I randomly use without thinking like, "Take it like a man," or "man up." How did these become part of the vernacular? I think "Take it like woman" is more appropriate, and from now on I'm telling my boys to "Mom up," because if there's something we know how to do, it's suffer.'

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'Democratic attorney general candidate Warren Tolman apologized on Wednesday if anyone was offended by his use of the word "unbecoming" to describe his opponent Maura Healey's criticism of his private sector record, as female Healey supporters blasted the comment as "sexist."
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Tolman used the word during a Boston Globe Opinion debate Tuesday as Healey criticized him for not being forthcoming about his registration as a federal lobbyist while working as an attorney at Holland & Knight.

The episode conjured memories of a 2002 debate when former candidate for governor Mitt Romney drew the ire of prominent women like Teresa Heinz Kerry and Hillary Clinton for describing then Treasurer Shannon O'Brien's attacks on his abortion position as "unbecoming."

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'"I will not rest until my granddaughters have every single right my son & my grandsons have." - Joe Biden

It is 2014. The chairman of the Federal Reserve — one of the most powerful people in the world — is a woman.  So are the Chief Executive Officers of IBM, General Motors, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, and Lockheed Martin. The president of Harvard University is a woman, as is the president of Intel. There are currently 3 women on the U.S. Supreme Court,20 in the U.S. Senate, and 79 in the U.S. House. The next President of the United States could well be a woman.

Despite all this, Vice President Joe Biden says his granddaughters have fewer rights than his sons and grandsons. Just look at the photo, above. There they are. Looking up longingly at … something.

Freedom. Equality. To Biden’s granddaughters and millions of other oppressed American women, those are just hollow phrases. Because, subjugation.

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'Making up for the loss of a woman talent with another woman hire is the new mantra at corporate India which is going all out to improve upon its gender diversity ratio at the workplace.

Sodexo India, Fluor, an engineering, procurement and construction maintenance firm, and Pitney Bowes, a global technology company, follow such a practice of replacing a woman employee with another woman employee.

Gender ratios are currently skewed towards male employees even in some of the most progressive organizations today. There appears to be a sense of urgency with which companies are adopting new practices to improve their gender ratios.

"We have come up with a new practice of replacing a woman with a woman. If we lose out on a woman employee, we will ensure that she is replaced by another woman employee so that we maintain our gender diversity. We will, however, not compromise on quality," said Rohini Anand, senior VP & global chief diversity officer for Sodexo.'

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'Noiva do Cordeiro in south east Brazil is home to 600 women, mainly aged between 20 and 35.

While some are married, their husbands are forced to work away from home and can only return on weekends.

Sons are sent away at the age of 18, and no other men are allowed to live full-time in the town, which is located in a remote valley.

The settlement dates back to the 1890s, when a young woman and her family were excommunicated from the Catholic church after she was accused of adultery when she left a man she had been forced to marry.

Slowly, more single women and mother-only families joined the community, and several attempts by men to interfere with their way of life only strengthened their desire to live in a strictly female environment.
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"We'd like to get to know men who would leave their own lives and come to be a part of ours.

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'His dream survives even now, even after everything that has happened, even after all the indignities he has endured. In the dream, he rises in his graduation gown, cloaked in the black and orange of the school he loves. An announcer intones the names, his voice reverberating in a packed auditorium. One after another, the graduates clutch the dean’s hand and grasp their diplomas. On this day, Darrell Williams is just another student, a little taller than most, but just another face in a sea of thousands. He moves the tassel from one side of his mortarboard to the other. And he smiles his big smile. The nightmare is over. His honor is restored. He is free.

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'A USC Upstate student is accused of falsely reporting she was the victim of an assault and attempted robbery Tuesday night.

Kendall Ashley Settlemyre, 22, of 226 Samara St, Spartanburg, is charged with filing a false police report of a felony violation. While being interviewed for a follow-up investigation, she confessed to lying about the incident as a result of having an argument with her roommate, said Lt. Kevin Bobo of the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.
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Deputies were concerned about her original accounts since five officers were at the complex at the time of the alleged incident for a call concerning a loud party, Bobo said in a statement. Follow-up interviews cast even more doubt on Settlemyre's accounts, deputies said.

Settlemyre was arrested and charged Thursday afternoon. She was taken to the Spartanburg County jail for booking.'

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'Deputies said an Orange County woman’s fake 911 call forced an entire neighborhood into lockdown on Thursday.

For nearly two hours, the Normandy Shores subdivision, on Silver Star Road, appeared to be under siege.

The fuss broke out after a woman called 911 and claimed she was being raped.

A resident, who did not want to be identified, said deputies thought he was the rapist.

“They drew the guns and told me to get down,” he said. “Put the handcuffs on me real tight. I fit the description because I has in a white tank top and I (am) black with dreads.”

Turns out the man wasn’t the suspect, because the whole rape claim was a hoax.
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Deputies have not released the woman’s name.

The man who claimed deputies wrongly held him at gunpoint said he plans to file a complaint with internal affairs.'

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'California is on the brink of becoming the first state to define when “yes means yes” while investigating sexual assaults on college campuses.

A bill doing so, SB967, passed the Assembly on a 52-16 vote Monday as states and universities across the U.S. are under pressure to change how they handle rape allegations. It now heads back to the Senate for what is expected to be a final vote on amendments.