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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.

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'Intactivists are gathering in New Orleans this weekend to call upon members of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to join the global medical community’s movement away from neonatal male circumcision.

Intact America, the organization leading the demonstration and an 11 AM press conference on Saturday, May 4, placed an advertisement in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and hired a mobile billboard, urging those who see it to “Tell America’s Obstetricians – No More Circumcision.” The sign includes the message “His Body, His Rights” to underscore the organization’s human rights concerns. Approximately 70 Intactivists are expected to participate in the demonstration, displaying banners, carrying placards, and handing out literature.'

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'Over the years Bowdery had his drivers license stripped and once even found himself in handcuffs over child support payments for a child that’s not his, “I would hate to see somebody else go through the same thing. I’ve been going through this, headaches.”

A mound of paperwork shows a juvenile court judge ordered him to pay child support even before the birth.
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Bowdery asked several judges during several hearings for a DNA test, but no judge ordered one.
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In 2009 he took the child himself to get a DNA test and found the son he supported for years was not biologically his.

He took the documentation to court.

The judge wouldn’t accept it, but ordered a DNA test done that showed the same results.

The probability of paternity was zero percent.
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Juvenile Court magistrate Nancy Kessler agreed in October to dis-establish paternity, but only after she admonished him for taking it this far.

“The judge stated that, ‘well I find it very distasteful that you’re bastardizing the child,” said Bowdery.
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Story here. A typical female murderer sentencing discount story. Four years for murdering her boyfriend. Excerpt:

'A St. Paul woman was sentenced Thursday to a little over four years in prison for running over and killing her boyfriend on the East Side of St. Paul in late January.
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“This was a tragic accident,” Anderson said. “Mark was someone she was in love with.”

Anderson said the two were engaged. He argued that Garcia suffers from neurological damage and cognitive problems even while sober and that the night of Urang’s death those problems were compounded by alcohol.

The charges filed against Garcia gave a less forgiving picture of that night. According to the complaint, Urang was run down by Garcia as he was on the phone with 911 calling for help.

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'In case you weren’t aware, Symantec and UK telecoms company O2 are currently still blocking men’s human rights sites and labelling them as “hate sites”. Previous reports of the cessation of such disgraceful behaviour were based on an erroneous article at The Register and the truth of the matter is that at no time were any of the sites in question unblocked.

It’s not just A Voice for Men that is smeared in this way by these companies, even completely uncontroversial resources have been defamed too. Symantec believes that the equal Justice Foundation’s dvmen.org site to be hateful, yet all they do is help male victims of domestic abuse. Sites wanting separated dads to have a relationship with their kids are also classed in this ridiculous way, and if you’re dedicated to nothing more than drawing attention to the plight of male victims of rape and sexual abuse then even that’s “hate” too.

In 2011, SAVE filed a 9-page ethics complaint with the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar alleging numerous instances of prosecutor misconduct by Hancock County prosecutor Mary N. Kellett.

Now, the state ethics board has issued a report concluding that Kellett did, in fact, engage in multiple counts of prosecutorial misconduct arising from the 2009 assault trial of Vladel Filler.

The ethical violations include ignoring a court order, misleading members of a jury, evidence suppression, and indulging in "conduct unworthy of an attorney."

The report petitions the Maine Supreme Judicial Board to impose "appropriate disciplinary sanction" on assistant district attorney Kellett. We agree, and we bet you do too.

For Vladek, and for every person falsely accused, please call the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Tell them that you want to make sure that justice is done with Kellett.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court: (207) 822-4146

Let's do our part to restore prosecutor integrity.

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'Of all the problems for children I have heard, I have never heard of one that stemmed from two fit parents spending too much time with their children. Last week, May 1st, 2013, Governor Rick Scott of Florida became the first governor to veto legislation (SB718/HB231) that would have provided children equal access to two fit parents. The Florida House passed the legislation in a bi-partisan vote of 85 to 31. The Florida Senate passed it 29-11.
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The individual horrors for Florida's children will continue, as will the burden upon Florida's taxpayers. But, at least the Family Section of the Florida Bar — that is, the divorce attorneys — got what they wanted. I'll say it again, 85-31 and 29-11. With this vote, Governor Scott marked his opposition to two parents.'

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'Whenever I hear women say they do not need a man to help raise children, it makes me cringe and think what a selfish statement that is. You may not need a man, but your child does.

So Oprah may want to get some strong, positive male role models to participate this particular class on fatherhood, for try as we might, we women do not understand what it is to be male. It’s like speaking to women and girls about empowerment, life choices, self-esteem, self-confidence, growing older, menopause, being all we can be as women—only to have men towering over us to teach us how to be our best selves.

They [sic] are things that a mother will never be able to teach her son, and there are things a dad will not be able to teach his daughters.'

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It is official: men are an oppressed minority these days. Despite an entire human history’s-worth of cultural dominance, in the few short generations since women got the vote, feminism has spoiled it for everyone, and women have full, unnatural dominance.

You don’t believe me? Consider this: who dies more often in wars, men or women? Which sex has the shorter life expectancy? Who has to make all the alimony payments? And who, most of all, has to leave a sinking cruise ship in last place? If you answered ‘men’ (poor, browbeaten men) to all of these, you’d be right, though these examples only scratch the surface of the systemic inequities men are forced to face each and every day.

There’s the pressure of having to pay for the bill on a date, more often than not, and that of having to conform to that terrible Hollywood stereotype of having, like, big pectoral muscles and things. Feminism has inculcated a crisis in masculinity.'

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'A campaign that aims to raise awareness of the insidious effect of verbal abuse on women.

'Killing Me Softly With His Words' was launched by domestic violence charity Sonas with the message that verbal abuse destroys lives.

"Words can and do wound," said charity chief executive Fiona Ryan who was joined by 2FM DJ Ruth Scott and fashion blogger Suzanne Jackson.

"The campaign shows how verbal abuse can be so psychologically and emotionally damaging that it can undermine a woman's self-belief, self-respect and self-image," she added.'

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'United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday called for global efforts to improve the health of women and children.

Speaking at a meeting of the Every Woman Every Child movement here, Ban stressed the importance of mobilizing and intensifying action around the world to tackle the global challenge, reported Xinhua.
"In the 21st century, no institution can solve global challenges on its own," Ban said.

"There is no monopoly on good ideas. That is why I believe so deeply in partnerships -- strategic partnerships."

Working with leaders from governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector and civil society, the Every Woman Every Child movement, spearheaded by the secretary-general, aims to save the lives of 16 million women and children and improve the lives of millions more.'

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'I was interested, but not surprised, to read a recent report produced by CareerStructure.com into female employment within the construction sector. They found, for over half of the built environment professionals surveyed, that less than 10% of their team are currently female. This is yet another confirmation that the construction industry still has a long way to go before proving its credentials in equality.

The concern of the 400+ construction professionals surveyed is so great that more than half of them believe that a quota should be introduced to ensure that companies within the industry do employ a certain number of women in their workforce, never mind at board level. The use of quotas is backed by extensive research into gender imbalanced teams, which reinforce the importance of having a diverse work force of both men and women. In addition, where women are employed in the construction sector, they tend to have HR, Marketing, Admin and occasionally Finance roles.

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'The owners of the Anna Louise Inn told federal officials several times in the past three years that they intend to run a women-only facility after renovating the inn with tax dollars, even though fair housing laws generally forbid excluding one gender.

At the same time, the owners did not publicly disclose that the inn might have to allow men for the first time in more than a century if they failed to get an exemption from fair housing laws.

Those findings, based on an Enquirer review of public records, come less than a month after Western & Southern Financial Group accused the city and the inn’s owners of lying about the planned $13 million renovation of the historic property.'