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'This week, all divisions of the U.S. armed forces are supposed to submit their plans for ending "combat exclusion," the rule that says women cannot serve in most combat positions. Host Rachel Martin speaks with NPR's Larry Abramson about the implications of the change.
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This coming week, the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are supposed to submit their plans for ending what's called the combat exclusion. This is the rule that says women cannot serve in most ground combat positions. The Pentagon announced plans to lift the ban earlier this year. The move comes as the military is under growing pressure to deal with an increasing number of sexual assault cases.'

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'WINDOW ROCK — Council Delegate Jonathan Hale presented a bill that would give fathers on the Navajo Nation equal rights to gain custody of his children.

Currently, Hale said there is no law that allows or states equal parenting rights to the father and said he would like to see some changes in policy.

“There needs to be a policy developed that will consider giving full custody to the father,” he said in a press release from the Navajo Nation Speakers office.

He also explained, the current policy lets the mother determine when the father gets to see the children in custody battles.

“In custody situations, somebody needs to be checking with the mother, and making sure that the kids are seeing their father,” he said.

No further information was provided.'

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'For years, the misnamed feminist movement has been indoctrinating women with its at times outrageous propaganda. Now this is being exposed and refuted, and many of those engaged in the enterprise are women.

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'False complaints of sexual abuse in the military are rising at a faster rate than overall reports of sexual assault, a trend that could harm combat readiness, analysts say.

Virtually all media attention on a Pentagon report last week focused on an increase in service members’ claims of sexual abuse in an anonymous survey, but unmentioned were statistics showing that a significant percentage of such actually investigated cases were baseless.

From 2009 to 2012, the number of sexual abuse reports rose from 3,244 to 3,374 — a 4 percent increase.
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“Unsubstantiated accusations remain a significant problem, but the SAPRO is doing nothing about it,” Mrs. Donnelly said. “I went through both volumes and found no evidence of concern about the significant 17 percent of ‘unfounded accusations.’ Something should be done to reduce the numbers of false accusations, the first step being an admission that the problem exists.”'

Have you made plans yet to attend our annual conference, "Celebrating Our Progress!"? I hope so, because I want to meet as many of you in person as I can.

On Friday evening - June 21 - we'll learn about the history of the abuse shelter movement from the founder herself, Erin Pizzey. And On Saturday - June 22 - our keynote speaker will be Kathleen King, a former magistrate in Ohio.

We have other speakers lined up too (see the list here). And there will be an optional lobbying event on Capitol Hill earlier in the day on Friday.

Dinner Friday and lunch Saturday are included.

Visit the SAVE website for the schedule and info on local lodging: http://www.saveservices.org/dvlp/annual-conference-2013/. Visit eventbrite to register online: http://celebratingourprogress.eventbrite.com/

I sure hope to see you there!

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'CUMBERLAND — The war to control the Internet began after Congress quietly passes a law allowing U.S. authorities to access foreign birth certificate repositories to identify worldwide Internet users.
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All the details, that few Congressmen read, are in an unnoticed attachment in the recently passed Violence Against Women Act (S-47).

Section 808 regulates “marriage brokers” (similar to social referral or dating sites) that are prohibited from providing services to foreigners under 18. Foreign clients must submit their birth certificate information or government ID before communication with Americans can begin, and allows U.S. authorities access to this sensitive information, effectively creating an Snternet police force.

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'The merged CAW/CEP superunion is taking the rare step of including a gender quota in its constitution, mandating that the number of women on the National Executive Board “is at least equal to the proportion of women among our membership.”

“We’ve had affirmative action polices, but this is the first time that it will be referenced specifically in a constitution,” said Peter Kennedy, the CAW’s national secretary-treasurer. “It’s the next logical step in the progression.”

“We know we are a male-dominated organization, and we thought it was important to have a positive action like that,” said Gaétan Ménard, the national secretary-treasurer of the CEP. “It’s easy to say just ‘We hope’ or ‘We’ll try.’ We said, no, we’re going to put it in the constitution.”

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'Boys will be boys and girls will be girls. But when girls and boys come out to play, it's the adults who make matters complicated. Commonwealth Court has a chance to correct a long-ago decision that contributed to an unusual problem.

It scarcely makes sense, but high school boys can play on girls' sports teams in Pennsylvania if the sport is offered only for girls. The best example is field hockey, a game that is popular for males in other countries but not in the United States.
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Commonwealth Court needs to hold a hearing and see what is obvious: Rigid gender blindness should not mean putting girl athletes at risk and denying them the chance to play because boys are on the team. Let girls be girls.'

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'You'll read about it often -- the creative methods judges and other officials use to shame people who owe child support.

There is the man ordered not to procreate. The guy who must tell any female he meets that he owes child support. The dads forced to display signs proclaiming themselves "deadbeats."

Much is made of the offensive moniker "deadbeat dads" and the histrionic punishments doled out by zealous judges.

However, throughout my 20+ years with Cordell & Cordell advocating for fathers' rights, it is apparent the more pertinent story is the paucity of attention, much less innovation, given the reciprocal problem relating to primary custodians that defy court orders respecting the other parent's access and participation in children's lives.'

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'Recent Virgin airlines passenger, John McGirr claims Virgin airlines treated him like a sexual predator on a flight to Sydney.

He claims a flight attendant asked him to move saying he was not allowed to sit next to children because he was male.

According to Mr McGirr the flight attendant walked up the aisle and tried to find a female to swap seats with him.

"By that time, people had looked around and it was like I'd done something wrong, (I felt) defenceless. Usually I like to have a good argument and stand up for myself but I just sort of swallowed my pride and left," Mr McGirr said.'

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'Is a male employee complaining about behavior you would clearly see as sexual harassment if the employee were a woman? If so, do something about it.

Recent case: Jeffrey complained that a male supervisor was constantly making comments like “come and give me [oral sex]” and sometimes groped male employees’ groins. Management ignored the situation.

Jeffrey sued, alleging sexual harassment. He pointed out that female employees weren’t treated the same way.

The court said the case could proceed. The fact that the supervisor was allegedly grabbing men’s crotches but not women’s could support a sexually hostile work environment claim. (Barrows v. Seneca Foods, No. 12-970, 2nd Cir., 2013)'

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'SALT LAKE CITY — Utah education officials are calling for more women to graduate from college. They say that would close a gender gap that puts the state behind most others.

The Deseret News reports that (http://bit.ly/10rgnDA) education officials say college degrees mean better jobs, better family life and higher pay.

The push comes from the Utah Women and Education Initiative. That group says Utah has the third-largest wage gap in the nation. It released a January report finding Utah women receive 69 cents for every dollar paid to men.

More Utah women are earning college degrees in recent years, but not enough to close the gap.

The report says younger women buck the state trend, obtaining degrees at an equal or higher rate as their male classmates.'

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'A man spent 10 years in prison on a false rape charge, a court has ruled. If these allegations are true, what should happen to the woman who filed the false charge? We asked Facebook users:

Ten years in the joint for her seems about right, then a lifetime of paying restitution back to the man for the money he lost while sitting in prison. That's a start, anyways.

—Joshua Bennett

She should have to pay the state for all the time he spent in prison that the tax payers had to pay.

—Harold Webb

She should do at least 10 years and have to go to Rape Survivor meetings and explain to them that she’s the reason it's so difficult to get rape convictions.

—Christine Page'

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'President Obama plans to put the focus back on health care Friday afternoon, specifically in how his landmark legislation—the Affordable Care Act—helps women. He’ll deliver a speech surrounded by women and families who are already benefiting from the new law.

“This is already working, we did this health care bill because health care was 17 -18% of GDP and we could not afford to let that go on and we were not getting the best health care for the money we were spending,” Rep. Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat, said on Jansing & Co.

The state of Colorado is already launching a two million dollar ad campaign in both print and on television to try and get people to sign up. The ads do not mention the phrase “Obamacare.” A narrator states, “When health care companies compete, there is only one winner: you.”

“Obviously you can’t do something this massive and go door-to-door explaining it to everyone,” Slaughter said.