Article here. Excerpt:

'On Tuesday Julia Gillard ignited a "gender war", today, menugate went some way to justify it.

In a progressive world, her gender should not be an issue – but we are a long way off that being an everyday reality. How far off is best illustrated by a photo doing the rounds taken of a menu at a Liberal fundraiser in March this year, which describes a Moroccan quail dish as: “Julia Gillard Kentucky fried quail – small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box Moroccan carrot salad and sumac yoghurt.”
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Gillard warned the issue of abortion would become the "political plaything of men" if Tony Abbott became prime minister, and invited us to imagine him as a man with a blue tie who goes on holidays to be replaced by another man in a blue tie. It seemed an odd request, even for someone who made their international political mark with her much praised misogyny speech.'

Letter here. Excerpt:

'On Tuesday, she played the gender card at the ''Women for Gillard'' launch. It was taped by the PM's office and sequences made available to the media. We got what she wanted us to get. This is not a media angle; it is the PM's message.

One sequence was ''I invite you to imagine it. A prime minister - a man in a blue tie - who goes on holidays to be replaced by a man in a blue tie. A treasurer, who delivers a budget wearing a blue tie, to be supported by a finance minister - another man in a blue tie. Women once again banished from the centre of Australia's political life.'

What is she talking about? Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott, or is it just plain and simple misandry. Does she want an election between misogyny and misandry?'

Story here. Named "The Black Widow" by the media, she gets off with another light sentence in what should have been attempted murder. Female charging and sentencing discount in full use here:. Excerpt:

'SYDNEY, Nova Scotia — A 78-year-old Canadian woman dubbed the "Black Widow" was sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in prison for drugging her newlywed husband.

The sentence for Melissa Ann Shepard, who pleaded Monday guilty to administering a noxious substance and failing to provide the necessities of life, will be reduced to two years and nine months because of time served in pretrial custody. Shepard was charged last year after Fred Weeks fell ill at a bed and breakfast while the couple was on a honeymoon.

An agreed statement of facts says Shepard slipped tranquilizers into the 76-year-old man's coffee and he was later taken to hospital. He survived.'

Well as we know, Hillary Clinton is no longer the US Secretary of State. But recall that one of the imperatives of her administration of the State Dept. was to work to end the sexual exploitation of women and girls. Just one article here goes:

'Clinton says preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls is no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States, which is co-sponsoring a Security Council resolution on the issue next week.'

This is a good aim. But contrast this with this recent piece of news:

'WASHINGTON — A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s security detail and the Belgian ambassador solicited prostitutes.

Link here. Excerpt:

'Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon announced today that 51 more Men’s Sheds in communities across Australia will receive funding to upgrade their facilities or buy new equipment and tools.
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Across Australia, 51 Men’s Sheds will share in $125,000 worth of funding to assist with the cost of upgrading facilities, purchasing tools and work equipment and improving disability access.
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Under its National Male Health Policy, the Government funds the Australian Men’s Shed Association to run the Shed Development Program, which includes $250,000 a year over three years to directly assist Men’s Sheds, plus $125,000 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander shed activities.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Houston woman is being accused by authorities of stabbing a man to death with a stiletto heel in a high-rise condo.

KHOU-TV reports that 44-year-old Ana Lilia Trujillo is facing a murder charge.

Houston police investigators say officers responded to an assault in progress call at the condo just before 4 a.m. Sunday. At the scene, officers found Trujillo, who showed them the body of a 59-year-old man. He was found in a hallway between the entryway and the kitchen. Police say Trujillo was the only person in the condo when officers arrived.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'BRIDGEPORT -- A city woman is accused of killing a former lover with her car.

Cherelle Baldwin, 21, of Ash Street in Bridgeport, was arrested Monday and charged with the murder of Jeffrey Brown, 24, and is being held on a $1 million bond.

In the early morning hours of May 18, Baldwin plowed into Brown with a red Pontiac G6, crushing him to death against a garage's cinder-block wall, police said. Brown died of blunt force trauma injuries.

"There was a significant impact when he was struck," said William Kaempffer, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department. "The vehicle pushed in the cinder-block wall more than 10 inches."'

Article here. Excerpt:

WASHINGTON / June 11, 2013 – A public opinion survey reveals a substantial majority of persons harbor doubts about the effectiveness of the American criminal justice system. The nationwide survey reveals a crisis of confidence in our nation’s legal system, says the non-profit Center for Prosecutor Integrity.

The presumption of innocence is a bedrock principle of the American legal system. But two-thirds (66.8%) of the survey respondents believe the presumption of innocence is becoming lost in our nation’s legal system.

Equal treatment is promised by the 14h Amendment to the Constitution. But three-quarters (74.8%) believe our legal system often does not follow the rule of ‘equal treatment under the law.’

Prosecutors occupy a central role in the criminal justice system, but over two-fifths (42.8%) say prosecutor misconduct is widespread. Strong majorities of persons say most cases of prosecutor misconduct are kept hidden from the public (71.4%), and similar numbers say prosecutors who commit misconduct are almost never punished (73.5%).

Article here. Excerpt:

'In the ongoing discussion of how to boost the education and skill levels of the American workforce, one central issue is rarely addressed: the gap between male and female achievement. The reality is that the slowdown in U.S. educational gains is predominantly a male affair, and one that drags down the overall competitiveness of our workforce and workers' ability to land (or create) good jobs.

To get more Americans working and set economic growth back on track, we need to understand what's going on with men in education.

Despite rising college costs and the many other challenges facing America's schools, women have made extraordinary strides in education. They have overtaken men in high school and college completion in the last few decades, earning 58% of bachelor's degrees and 62% of postsecondary occupational certificates.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'There are very few places on MSU’s campus that aren’t open to everyone, but one of them is the Women’s Lounge inside the [student] Union.

Tina Timm, an assistant professor in the College of Social Sciences, feels the lounge is outdated. “This will probably get me in trouble with my feminist friends but it doesn’t make sense to me to have that in this day in age,” Timm said. “If there was a lounge or study area specifically for men, I think there would be a lot of push back.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'MP: Just as a thought experiment – imagine the public reaction if the educational degree imbalances of 4.35 million bachelor’s degrees and 9.7 million college degrees overall favored men, and not women? I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that a college degree imbalance that large in favor of men would be considered a “national crisis.” College degree disparities, when women are over-represented, never seem to be much of a concern. And with those enormous gender imbalances in higher education favoring women, do we really need hundreds of women’s centers on college campuses all over the country, women’s only study lounges, and female-only campus housing for STEM degrees?

Video here.

'President Barack Obama is calling attention to the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act that aimed to eliminate gender wage disparities, making the case for strengthening the law that President John F. Kennedy signed in 1963.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) also says that the number of lone-parent families is increasing by 20,000 a year and will reach more than two million by the time of the 2015 general election.

The CSJ warned of a "tsunami" of family breakdown and accused Government of a "feeble" response to the problem and of turning a blind eye to its commitment to promote family stability.

Some of the poorest parts of the country are becoming "men deserts", the report found, because there are so few visible male role models for children.

Liverpool has one of the highest densities of fatherless households in the country, with eight of the top 20 areas within its boundaries, the report, Fractured Families: Why Stability Matters, found.'

The latest is here. Excerpt:

'Today marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the federal Equal Pay Act – an occasion that both demonstrates the progress we have made to achieve pay equity and highlights the work that remains to be done to fulfill this mission.

Today in New York, women earn 84 percent of what their male counterparts earn. Over a lifetime, they will earn $500,000 less than men. In 2013, this is unacceptable, and one of the main points the Women’s Equality Act that I have proposed works to overcome. It would require employers to base their pay decisions on qualifications and not gender. The legislation also protects an employee’s right to share wage information with other employees without being retaliated against and increase damages to successful plaintiffs in pay equity discrimination cases.'