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'How bad is the wage gap for women in the workplace?

For college graduates, it's so bad that it begins even before women begin their careers.

According to a study by AAUW, Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year After College Graduation:
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AAUW's findings tell us that women are disproportionately likely to take out loans; among 2007-2008 graduates, 68 percent of women borrowed money for college compared to 63 percent of men.'

In case you haven't made plans yet to attend our June conference,"Celebrating Our Progress!" I thought I'd tell you about last year's event. We had captivating speakers, connections were made, friendships were started, and we all left feeling a little more empowered.

This year's conference is expected to be better than ever. We are excited to have two women as our keynote speakers.

June 21 - Optional lobbying. Speaker Erin Pizzey, founder of the abuse shelter movement. Complimentary dinner.

June 22 - Keynote speaker Kathleen King, former magistrate. Several more speakers. Complimentary lunch.

Visit the SAVE website for the schedule and info on lodging: http://www.saveservices.org/dvlp/annual-conference-2013/

Visit eventbrite to register online: http://celebratingourprogress.eventbrite.com/

I hope to see you there,

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'A new Canadian study has uncovered an apparent gender bias in the hospital setting, with women less likely than men to get trauma center care following a severe injury.

"Gender-based disparities in access to health care services in general have been recognized for some time, and evidence is emerging that these disparities extend to the treatment of severe injuries in trauma centers," study author Andrea Hill, a postdoctoral fellow at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, said in a news release.
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The team's findings stem from an analysis involving nearly 99,000 adult patients throughout Canada. About a third were women, and all had sought hospital treatment following a severe injury.

Across all age groups, just less than half of the women received trauma center care, compared to more than 63 percent of men in the same situation.'

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'Avri Gilad, one of Israel's most popular TV personalities, has decried what he calls a "fad" of false accusations against divorced fathers.

"Every day I get e-mails from fathers whose natural right to see their children is denied them by social workers, courts, the police, and what not," Gilad wrote on his popular Facebook page, which is followed by more than 20,000 people. "They cry out and no one listens – sometimes they are even mocked.

"The feminist revolution, which I support wholeheartedly, is felling victims among my brothers, the divorced fathers. In the name of [fighting] thousands of years of discrimination, in the name of an injustice that was done in the past and is done in the present to millions of women in the world, by rapacious men who shame the male sex, the legal systems believe that it is okay to mow down good people, devoted fathers who divorced because they chose to, or because others chose so for them.'

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'WHEN it comes to footwear, men and women should be able to agree on at least one thing; nothing makes a statement like a set of high heels.

The humble heel will provide the basis for the Ipswich Women's Centre Against Domestic Violence (IWCADV) campaign to raise awareness of domestic, family and sexual violence in the city this afternoon.

The Walk a Mile in Her Shoes March will involve men and women donning high heels for a walk through the CBD, starting in d'Arcy Doyle Place at 5pm.

IWCADV community development worker Michelle Dang said the march aimed to make a strong statement against "gendered violence".'

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'WOMEN would be able to seek information about the domestic violence history of new partners under plans to be proposed by senior police officers in Scotland.

The Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (Asps) is this week expected to back calls for the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme – known as Clare’s Law – which is being piloted by four forces in England and Wales, and could be extended north of the Border.

The Association’s annual conference is also likely to support the introduction of Domestic Abuse Protection Orders in Scotland, which would require men with a history of violence in the home to disclose previous convictions themselves.

And in a further extension of Clare’s Law, some senior officers also want police to be able to share information about known abusers with potential victims, even though this may breach data protection laws.'

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'Bonnie McConnell, 44, of Hampshire Drive, Nashua, was arrested May 16 just before 9 a.m., charged with one count of domestic violence second degree assault, a Class B Felony; and one count of domestic violence simple assault for an alleged scissor attack on a male victim.

Police responded to McConnell's Hampshire Drive home on May 16 after it was reported that she had allegedly used a pair of scissors to "recklessly injure" a man known to her.

A Class B Felony is punishable by up to seven years imprisonment, exclusive of fines. A Class A Misdemeanor is punishable by up to one year incarceration, exclusive of fines. McConnell was held at the Nashua Police Department on $3,500 cash or surety pending her upcoming arraignment at the 9th Circuit Court-Nashua District Division.'

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'A 19-year-old woman has been cautioned for wasting police time after making a false sexual assault claim.

The recreation ground in Boundary Road, Ramsgate, was cordoned off on Friday while officers investigated.

The woman reported she had been attacked by a man at the park at around 2am.

She was formally cautioned for wasting police time last night.

Kent Police thanked the public for their help following the initial appeal for information.'

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'Do you believe that all human beings are equal? Then you're a feminist!

Well, such was my naïve belief, until now. While disagreements between supporters of any movement or system of beliefs are unavoidable, I thought that at least human equality was one area in which feminists would unite. I saw the notion of a feminist as being anti-men as merely one of many unjustified stereotypes, such as being ugly, or unwomanly.

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'In a video released by the court, Ms. Campione tosses a toy to the floor — a Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal Serena was filmed dancing with seconds before. Her tired face crumples as she sinks into a couch and unleashes a venomous tirade against her former husband just moments after she held her baby girls under water in the bathtub until they drowned.

“Leo, there, are you happy?” she spews at the camera. “Everything’s gone.… The idea that you could actually have my children — God believes me and God’s taking care of them now.”

Campione was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years, for the murders of her two daughters, Serena, and Sophia, 19 months.'

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'MPUMALANGA - The Mpumalanga Health MEC should be fired over her circumcision comments, according to the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union.

Candith Mashedo-Dlamini last week said tradition forbids her (as a woman) to get involved in the deaths of 23 young men who lost their lives at the start of the circumcision season in Mpumalanga.

Nehawu says the MEC's reluctance to take action amounts to a dereliction of duty.

It's the second organisation to condemn the MEC’s comments.

The Public Service Accountability Monitor on Friday lashed out at the lack of adequate safety measures at circumcision schools.

“This is a tradition... this is a tradition... so in other traditions whether there are deaths or what - but a woman can't come closer to that. But because there are police now, we're relying on the police so that they can give us reports," Mashedo-Dlamini said.'

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'When Labour MP Diane Abbott claims British blokes are facing a “crisis of masculinity” she is barking up the wrong trouser leg.

The way Diane tells it, British men are a bunch of homophobic, women-hating, porn-addicted, Viagra-quaffing, Jack Daniels-slurping brutes.

This is not an accurate portrait of British men – it is a grotesque cartoon.

Abbott says British men are incapable of talking about their problems.

“It’s all become a bit like the film Fight Club,” she sighs. “The first rule of being a man in modern Britain is that you’re not allowed to talk about it.”'

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'On average, men aren't as healthy as women.

Men don't live as long, and they're more likely to engage in risky behaviors, like smoking and drinking.

But in the past decade, global health funding has focused heavily on women.

Programs and policies for men have been "notably absent," says Sarah Hawkes, from the University of London's Institute of Global Health.

She and a colleague published a commentary in The Lancet Friday calling for more gender equality in global health funding.

"If you look at the top 10 health problems around the world, they are much more common in men," she tells Shots. "But the current focus is predominatly on women's health."'

Story here. Apparently the "father" of ADHD admitted in the last year of his life that it was a "fictitious disease." And which sex is diagnosed with it most often? Boys, of course. Excerpt:

'That amounted to interference in the child’s freedom and personal rights, because pharmacological agents induced behavioral changes but failed to educate the child on how to achieve these behavioral changes independently. The child was thus deprived of an essential learning experience to act autonomously and emphatically which “considerably curtails children’s freedom and impairs their personality development”, the NEK criticized.

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'Six hundred women gathered today for the Go Red for Women annual luncheon to put an end to the number one killer of women in America, heart disease! Did you know women have a much greater chance of dying from heart disease than all forms of cancer combined, according to the American Heart Association. Heart disease and stroke are the number one killers of women in this country. One in three women will be impacted by heart disease; you could be one of them.

It's a shocking number but much better than where we were 10 years ago before Go Red for Women was founded to educate women about this very real killer.

Today's event is a major fundraiser for the programs across our region to educate women and help fund events to get information to those at risk. More than $500,000 dollars was raised and another $12,000 on the "Pursonality Auction".'