Article here. Excerpt:

'New York should open competitive middle schools for girls who are interested in science and math as a way to close a gender gap that has tipped the balance in the city’s top tech high schools heavily toward boys.

Broached by Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the heat of the mayoral campaign, the next mayor, whoever that might be, should follow through on her idea to open five all-female science, technology, engineering and mathematics (or STEM) middle schools, one in each borough, to help draw interested young women to the jobs of tomorrow.

Boys now outnumber girls by three-to-one at the city's high-school tech programs, even as jobs in the field are expected to grow about twice as quickly as other positions. Boys also claim about three of five seats at the city’s most competitive public high schools that determine admission exclusively by testing, including Stuyvesant and Bronx Science.'

Letter here. Excerpt:

By now you've heard about the awful baby-cutting study underway at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. In just a few weeks, Intact America will travel to that hospital to deliver a letter signed by concerned citizens like you, demanding that this outrageous study be stopped.

Can we count on you to sign our letter and speak up for these innocent babies, who are being strapped down and assaulted for the sole purpose of seeing which of two clamps causes more blood loss and pain?

We’ve gathered just over 3,000 signatures so far, so we still have a long way to go, and we can’t do it without your help. If you've already signed, thank you...and please forward this email to your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues and ask them to sign it too!

Here’s why we think this action is critical:

This is happening right in our backyard. That’s right, American doctors are experimenting on the genitals of non-consenting minors.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Mountaineers is an outdoors club headquartered in Seattle devoted to hiking, climbing, skiing, kayaking, etc. (Go to www.mountaineers.org for more information.) For the most part, it is a great group, with countless people volunteering their time and expertise to help people enjoy the outdoors. I was a member for 27 years.

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'A former Montezuma County sheriff's deputy accused of inappropriately touching a female suspect has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an investigation.

The Cortez Journal reports that prosecutors and the sheriff's office both conducted an investigation and determined no charges were warranted against former deputy Darrin Harper.

A 52-year-old woman had alleged in a January complaint that Harper had fondled her during a traffic stop in 2012. But the woman later told investigators during an interview that she has a mental illness and sometimes makes up things "that did not happen."

The woman had been arrested on suspicion of driving on the influence of drugs on the night in question, but the charges were later dismissed.

Link here. Excerpt:

'Today we are proud to announce the release of the report by the President’s Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities. We have had the honor of serving as co-chairs of the interagency Federal Working Group since March 2012, when President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum to address two overlapping challenges to the health and wellbeing of communities across the United States: the effects of HIV/AIDS, and the alarming rate at which women and girls experience violence.

Article here. Excerpt:

'When parents separate, one of the first questions anyone asks is, “What happens with the kids?” Current law in most states gives judges practically carte blanche authority to issue temporary orders that place children primarily or wholly in the care of just one parent. One situation that is all-too-common is that one parent gets custody of the children, and the other is ordered “visitation” every other weekend.

For a child that has previously been with both parents every day, removing one of those parents and offering her or him a mere four to six days out of the month must be very traumatic. However, this trauma is not considered when making such orders, and the right of both parents to care for and provide for the child is rarely upheld in family court.'

Preview here. The full short film will be available on October 1st, 2013 on Distrify.com. You can find Shame on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ShameMEStudios and on Twitter: @shamemovie

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fifteen universities including some Ivy League schools are offering college credit to students who will inject feminist thinking into the popular website Wikipedia -- something critics are calling an eye-opening case of campus bias.
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The program is called “Storming Wikipedia,” and was set up by a group called FemTechNet as part of its Dialogues on Feminism and Technology online course, according to CampusReform.org. Approximately 300 students are currently registered for the course, and schools like Yale University, Brown University and Pennsylvania State University are participating.

Anne Balsamo, dean of the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York, says the program is meant to revise a bias seen on the massive online encyclopedia, where many pages are "skewed now toward male participation."
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How the feminist thinking they were seeking would appear was anyone’s guess.

Story here.

'Hartford police arrested a woman who they said admitted to them that she tried to kill her boyfriend by setting him on fire.

Police were called to 116 South St., after getting a 911 call from a woman saying she burned her boyfriend to death and she would be waiting for police outside the home.

Officers arrived at the home and were met by the woman, identified as 47-year-old Julia Rivera, who told them, "Arrest me. I did it. I burned him alive."

Rivera was handcuffed and placed into the police cruiser while officers ran into the home to look for the victim. However, police said, the victim was able to run from the home.

The victim was located at 18 South St., and was suffering from second-degree burns over 70 percent of his body. He was brought to Bridgeport Hospital's Burn Unit and is listed in critical condition.

Rivera complained of chest pains and was brought to Hartford Hospital.

She was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, criminal violation of a protective order and disorderly conduct.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Prosecutors plan to appeal a state judge's dismissal of a felony charge against a Billings woman with a history of making false rape reports.
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District Judge G. Todd Baugh dismissed a felony charge of fabricating evidence against Christina Nadine Nelson in late July, saying that while the evidence clearly showed Nelson lied when she reported her former boyfriend raped her, the prosecution's decision to charge her with fabricating evidence was "a stretch at best."
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Baugh also gave Nelson permission to travel to Germany on Aug. 2, despite protests from prosecutors who noted she had made seven false rape or assault claims against three men between 2009 and 2012.

Nelson was charged in December 2012 for reporting that her former boyfriend raped her as she left work one day.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Acting Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug said her gender may have something to do with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to overlook her for the top post at the central bank.

In an interview published in Yedioth Ahronoth Wednesday, asked if she thought there was sexism involved in Netanyahu’s disinclination to select her for the job — when previous governor Stanley Fischer recommended her, and two intended appointees withdrew — Flug answered: “Maybe… Until then I had never come across the so-called ‘glass ceiling’ in my professional career. I’ve always known that women carry a heavier burden than men because of the two-fold job of being a mother and a career woman, but I believed that it is in our power to combine and balance the two responsibilities… Only in the last two months, when I realized the intensity of the resistance against my appointment to governor of the bank, did the thought occur to me that maybe my disqualification was connected — also — to my being a woman.”'

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'The women's movement has struggled for equality for years, but when it comes to one aspect of serving in the military, women have, unfortunately, achieved more than their share.

A RAND Corp. study found predictable results when it tracked the marital status of more than 460,000 U.S. service members between 1999 and 2008. With each passing month that a spouse was away at war, the chance of divorce increased.

Especially vulnerable were couples who married before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, who didn't expect long deployments to be part of the equation.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The public bake-off between the economists Lawrence Summers and Janet Yellen for the job of chairman of the Federal Reserve has boiled down, practically speaking, to discriminatory hiring practices

Janet Yellen's stand-out credential is that she is a woman.

Larry Summers' main drawback — or, certainly, among his most conspicuous characteristics — is that he is not.

You would have to be a naïf or dissembler of remarkable proportions not to see every argument for or against these candidates — and you might read each of these arguments as forms of letters of recommendation by their various sponsors — as reducible to a gender debate.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Recent research has suggested various ways in which girls outperform boys in high school, making them more likely to go to college: stronger desire to get good grades, better social skills, greater validation from academic performance. But a new study suggests gender sorting -- a boy’s or girl’s decision to attend one school or another – could have its own effect on the college enrollment gap.