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'The organization’s popularity speaks to the critical void the club is filling by creating a support network for women senior executives, striking at the heart of how complicated it can be to work as a female leader.

“It’s lonely at the top, and it only gets lonelier as a woman,” said Kaplan, who now works as the organization’s chief brand officer.

The membership numbers around 20,000 and includes women with C-suite credentials in a broad range of industries—from NASA to Nike and Harvard to Walmart.

The organization is not only diverse in terms of industry—35% of Chief members identify as BIPOC, which is nearly double the number of women of color in executive leadership overall. Chief also welcomes people who identify as trans or nonbinary.'

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'Connecticut Democrats are working to lower the physical fitness requirements for female firefighters, saying that less onerous standards will make fire departments "more diverse."

A law introduced earlier this month in the Connecticut State Assembly would let women skip the Candidate Physical Ability Test, a timed gauntlet used by fire departments across the country. The test, which only 10 to 15 percent of women pass, requires candidates to complete intense physical tasks while wearing a 50 pound vest. It’s designed to simulate the experience of navigating a fire in heavy gear—and to weed out those unable to do so.

The law, introduced by five Democratic lawmakers, would offer women an alternative test based on "revised physical standards," with the goal of ensuring that "additional female candidates" qualify for firefighter positions, text from the bill states.'

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'Chair of the Scottish Women’s Convention and long-time women’s rights advocate Agnes Tolmie praised the fresh approach.

She said: “This advert by Police Scotland is to be welcomed. Whilst women have to be aware of male controlling behaviour, this advert has put the responsibility for it firmly at the door of men.

“For too long, women have had to endure not only the problems of controlling behaviours of men, but have had to try and resolve it on their own. It’s time men joined in to tackle this destructive behaviour.'

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'A former military police officer claims he has been driven to the brink of taking his own life after being falsely accused of rape three times. Paul Nugent, 59, from Heywood, has made official complaints to Greater Manchester Police’s Professional Standards Branch over what he claims is Rochdale division’s failure to bring charges against his accuser for making the allegation and, he says, ‘ignoring’ evidence which would have established his innocence.

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'Its title alone is intriguing enough to encourage the public to check out what this exhibition is about. Women Need More Sleep Because Fighting the Patriarchy is Exhausting is what the new showcase at Common Room, Prozak is called and it features the work, experiences and thoughts of four local women.
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The visual arts exhibition will host a series of parallel events that invite women and men, occasionally only women, to discuss, reflect and share their views and experiences. Saturday is the first parallel activity and it is an open discussion at 7pm between four women from different professional backgrounds. The 12 Feats of a Working Women talk will address the challenges and obstacles these women face, moderated by Katerina Gennari.'

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'Police are hoping to see an increase in reports of sexual assault following the launch of a new reporting tool that enables victims to record their experiences and provide information to police via an anonymous online portal.

The Sexual Assault Reporting Option, also known as SARO, allows victims to report a sexual assault without any obligation to participate in further lines of inquiry.

While the anonymous option has been in place since 2012, the new online version was unveiled in 12 languages on Friday, making it more accessible to victims.

The new system, accessed through a community portal on the NSW Police website, replaces the old process that required victims to download, print out and complete 14-page document, then email it back to the State Crime Command’s sex crimes squad.'

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'After Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office issued a warning Friday for the National Hockey League’s advertisement in Fort Lauderdale for “discrimination,” the NHL reversed course.

The NHL will reportedly now open its job fair to all individuals ages 18 and older after previously limiting it to certain genders and ethnicities, Fox News Digital first reported.

In a now-deleted job fair post on LinkedIn, the NHL had said it was only permitting those who meet the following qualifications:

Participants must be 18 years of age or older, based in the U.S., and identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a person with a disability. Veterans are also welcome and encouraged to attend.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, the NHL said the “original wording of the LinkedIn post associated with the event was not accurate.”'

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'In Part 3, we explore practices to helping boys thrive in school. Successful educational approaches are overlooked at the highest levels of the educational system and in policy actions while certain smaller grassroots efforts are finding success. Thousands of schools across the country are navigating educational landscapes with limited awareness of the ways brain function impacts learning.

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'Trengove spent his 19th birthday in prison, serving 10 weeks on remand before police realised the evidence against him didn’t stack up. The girl Trengove actually had sex with on 9 March gave police a selfie she had taken in the back of the police van, while suspicion grew that far from being a particularly unlucky victim of multiple rapes, Eleanor Williams was in fact a fantasist making one false allegation after the other with the help of social media.

Not only did she create fake profiles to frame Trengove and some of her other victims, she started up explicit conversations with innocent men – on Tinder, Snapchat or the intimate photo sharing site OnlyFans, where she had an account – and renamed them in her phone so that it looked as though their penis photos and propositions were coming from those she falsely accused.

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'Many women can often find it hard to reach orgasm in the bedroom.

And, according to a new survey, that's down to men.

Sex toy company Lovehoney have labelled fellas "bad in bed" – as they've found evidence that women find it much easier to have an orgasm during sex with other women compared to men.'

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'Our first finding was that women worked much harder than men, and contributed most of the fruits of this labor to their families. This was evidenced both by their own reports of how much they worked and by their activity trackers.

Women walked on average just over 12,000 steps per day, while men walked just over 9,000 steps. So men also worked hard, but less so than women. They spent more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.

This may be partly because women are, on average, physically weaker than men, and may thus have reduced bargaining power. But we also found that individuals (be they male or female) who disperse at marriage to live away from their kin have higher workloads than those who stay with their natal families.

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'Hypatia Capital Management, an asset management firm focused on female leadership and investors, is placing a big bet on the success of companies led by women.

The actively managed Hypatia Women CEO ETF (WCEO), launched Monday, aims to invest at least 80% of its assets in U.S. companies that are led by a female CEO and up to 20% in companies whose executive chairperson is a female, according to the prospectus.

The ETF will also follow the Hypatia Women CEO Index, an index that tracks companies with female CEOs and market capitalizations of at least $500 million.'

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'Across all ages and nearly all areas of education, boys are under-performing girls.

“Girls are about a year ahead of boys in terms of reading ability in OECD nations, in contrast to a wafer-thin and shrinking advantage for boys in maths. Boys are 50 percent more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: maths, reading, and science,” Richard Reeves, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and the Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative, wrote in his recent book Why the Modern Male is Struggling,

According to a 2018 Brookings Institution report, about 88% of American girls graduated high school on time, compared with 82% of boys. In 2020, six out of ten college students were women. Once on campus, they graduate at higher rates, receiving more associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in the process. As evidenced by declining college enrollment in the U.S., a drop for which men account for 71%, the gender disparity is continuing to worsen.'

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'A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses six state-run medical schools in Texas of violating federal anti-discrimination laws by giving preferences to female and non-Asian minority applicants.

The lawsuit by George Stewart, a white man who was denied admission to the schools, is the latest challenge to affirmative action policies that are commonly used by U.S. schools to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and female students.
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According to the lawsuit, Stewart in 2021 obtained enrollment data for the six schools after he was denied admission.

Stewart alleged that the data revealed that Black, Hispanic and female students at the schools had significantly lower grade-point averages or test scores than white, Asian and male students. Stewart said in the complaint that the data showed that the schools gave preferences to female and non-Asian minority applicants.

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'The California Legislative Women's Caucus on Monday called for the removal of Dana White as UFC president in a public letter addressed to the head of the promotion's parent company.

The letter, sent to Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, comes after video surfaced last week of White slapping his wife, Anne, at a nightclub in Mexico on New Year's Eve.

The political women's advocacy group, which according to its website consists of 18 state senators and 33 assemblywomen, posted a copy of the letter online. The letter asks Emanuel for "the immediate removal of Mr. White as President of the UFC."
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In the video, White, 53, can be seen saying something to Anne, at which point she slaps him in the face. White then slaps her back before the two are quickly separated.'