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'The release listed five possible reasons why women generally do better at financial spread betting, those being:

- Men hate to be wrong and take longer to admit that they have made an error;
- Women are better in a crisis and less emotional because, contrary to popular belief, female traders are more disciplined and less likely to panic;
- Women can more easily say no and sometimes the best trades are the ones you do not make;
- Women read the manual, stick to a strategy and question things that they are uncertain of; and,
- finally, women are measured as opposed to jumping in head first - which men are apparently prone to doing.'

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'The opening of a new multi-million dollar baseball field in Sitka earlier this fall is polarizing the community in an unexpected way: Can or should it be used for softball, too?

Gender equity in public education – including activities like sports – is governed by a federal statute known as Title IX.
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“This whole issue, it’s kind of petty. Where we’ve got one team saying, Hey, your new field is better than my new field, so we want your new field. Then we get Title IX thrown at us, to be displaced off of our field and get the girls on.”

Displacing the boys is at the heart of the argument for most parents who spoke on behalf of the baseball team during the two-hour work session. In establishing equity, Title IX should not disadvantage one gender to create opportunity for the other.'

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'LUCKNOW: The first objection to Women Powerline 1090, UP Police's helpline for women to curb eve-teasing and telephonic harassment came for a quarter that was as obvious as unexpected-boys, who cried gender bias.

"Do you have any service for boys who face similar harassment at the hands of the girls," a boy shot the question at a woman operator at the call centre on the opening day on Thursday leaving her puzzled, a source told TOI. The trained reply from the call operator was that the service was meant strictly for women in the state.

Another male caller, who was probably aware of the basic surveillance methodology, went a step ahead to tell the operator, "Will the police send a girl to jail if it is proved that the said call was being made by herself," yet again leaving the women call operator perplexed, till a senior official of the centre pitched in and tried to convince the boy that though his concern was genuine the service was meant only for women.'

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'More than half of HR professionals are biased against overweight women, while nearly two fifths are biased against men, according to a survey conducted exclusively for People Management.

Special bias tests were taken by 122 HR professionals to measure their unconscious prejudices in a range of common areas such as age, gender, weight and disability. The tests, designed by specialist provider Hogrefe Implicity, revealed that almost 40 per cent of those surveyed showed a preference for one gender (overwhelmingly, they were in favour of women).

The tests, which assess unwitting associations of gender and competence, found that men were the losers with 37 per cent of respondents revealing a bias against them. Yet only 1 per cent showed a prejudice against women.

However, when asked about overweight women, 51 per cent of respondents revealed a bias against them at a level “likely or very likely” to affect their behaviour. Yet only 4 per cent showed a bias against “slimmer women”.

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'BRUSSELS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The European Commission wants to make companies favour female non-executive board candidates where they are equally qualified so as to raise the proportion of women in boardrooms to 40 percent, EU sources said on Tuesday.

One source, who declined to be named, said the commission plan did not set a binding EU quota for all member states but rather set an "objective" of having 40 percent women by 2020 - suggesting that an earlier plan for a strict 2020 deadline had been dropped.

But another EU source, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the preference rule was "tied to the legally binding objective of 40 percent by 2020, which means that if by 2020 companies have not reached 40 percent and have not been appointing women instead of men, then they will also face sanctions".'

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'What is most troubling with Judge Mawla is that he did pro bono work at WAFA House, which stands for Women Against Family Abuse. It is there that he helped abused women file restraining orders, find shelter and receive job training and financial assistance. Given that domestic violence allegations seem to exist mostly in divorce and custody related matters, Mawla made his fortune off of women making domestic violence allegations against men. He has a built-in gender bias against men and should not be sitting in judgment in Family Court matters.
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Judge Mawla has incarcerated John Waldorf for owing alimony arrearages. However, it was Mawla who made the insane order that Waldorf pay over $8,000 per month in alimony and child support at the time of Waldorf's divorce. Or, in other words, Waldorf was ordered by Mawla to pay almost $100,000 in alimony.

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'On Nov. 20, the National Organization for Women (NOW) Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of 10 women's rights and anti-violence organizations in the case of Khawam v. Wolfe, in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The brief supports reversal of an unprecedented award of $350,000 in attorneys' fees against a woman who accused her ex-husband of domestic violence. The brief argues that such an extraordinary award may chill protective mothers from raising allegations of domestic violence in custody disputes for fear of retaliation should their claims ultimately be found unproven.

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'Bisexual and gay men are at risk of discrimination and prejudice because of their sexual orientation. This extends from social settings and reaches across nearly every domain, including academic, professional, and in areas related to housing, medical care, and legal matters. Additionally, these men may be more vulnerable to aggression and harassment. It has been established that increased prejudice and discrimination can have significant mental health ramifications. In the gay and bisexual male population, the perception of prejudice and the reality of discrimination have worked together to create an elevated presence of psychological issues.

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'Former Pittsburgh Steelers player Robin Cole knows firsthand that early detection of prostate cancer saves men's lives. It saved his. That's why he's working to raise awareness among men in an unusual way -- by recruiting women to battle the disease.

Mr. Cole, 57, of Nottingham, Washington County, underwent laparoscopic surgery in 2004 for prostate cancer, which claimed the life of his 49-year-old father, Obediah Cole, in 1979. Since then, Mr. Cole and five of his brothers have been diagnosed with the cancer but early enough to prevent complications. One brother, William, did die from other cancers.

Mr. Cole helped to found the Obediah Cole Foundation for Prostate Cancer that's joining with the Allegheny County Health Department to form a local chapter of Women Against Prostate Cancer. The goal is to recruit women to raise awareness and help convince men to get early screening for the cancer.'

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'Throughout this year, you and other activists have raised your voice with Fathers and Families. This Thanksgiving, we give thanks for your work and your activism, and the example you are setting for your children.

Together we have:

• Secured a place for our founder, Ned Holstein, on Governor Deval Patrick’s Working Group on Child-Centered Family Law;
• Placed a new limit on California spousal support;
• Helped Ohio child support obligors by maintaining their driver’s licenses;
• Continued our fight to protect our American soldiers’ custody in deployment;'

Slideshow here.

'We're not saying we're better -- or even stronger -- than our male counterparts, but we do have certain advantages.'

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'A holiday weekend is coming up, which means that a lot of women will be spending time with their significant others. In the interest of keeping relationships intact during this time of togetherness, I thought about the ways we, as women, take a few too many liberties with our men and think it's okay.

I mention this because day to day female interactions stresses being polite and positive, even if what a situation really calls for is brutal honesty. Consider this post an open call for change in lieu of creating awkward moment during brunch.'

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'Two young Massachusetts women have been placed on unpaid leave from their jobs after posting a photo on Facebook showing one of them at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery giving the finger beside a sign calling for silence and respect.

Lindsey Stone, 30, and Jamie Schuh, who took the photo, were placed on unpaid leave by a non-profit, LIFE Inc., based in Hyannis, Mass., which helps adults with special needs, the Cape Cod Time reported on Wednesday.

The chief financial officer of the told the Times that the company is ''appalled.''

A Fire Lindsey Stone page has gotten more than 14,000 "likes."'

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'I'm caught short by the return of the word "misogynist", thanks to Australian PM Julia Gillard tagging the term on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. I'd thought it was a quaint old word replaced in common usage 40 years ago by "male chauvinist pig".

After all, why use one word when we can waste three?

It's true the two terms are not strict synonyms, but male chauvinist pig devoured the other's usage because its meaning was very similar, it was stroppier, and it was part of the enraged language of early Women's Lib. To its more extreme first users, male chauvinist pig was a satisfying phrase, made entirely from swear words.

And it rolled redolently from the tongue with an oink-oink here, and a P plosive there.

Pig's plosive, it may be noted, is a consonant which can't be uttered without ejecting a puff of hot air.