Article here. Excerpt:

'Towson University announced Tuesday that its athletics department recommended the school’s NCAA men’s baseball and soccer teams be cut after the 2012-2013 school year, according to a message from President Maravene Loeschke on the school’s website.

“Our Towson University community holds a great deal of pride for our baseball and men’s soccer student-athletes and the legacy they have established with Towson University,” Loeschke said in the online letter.
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The task force was charged with increasing Towson’s competitiveness, establishing long-term stability of the athletics department, and maintaining Title IX compliance, which ensures equal funding for men’s and women’s sports.'

Also see: Towson University Cutting Baseball Is Inexcusable

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'South Australia has the highest proportion of male teaching staff in the nation at 30 per cent, according to 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

But that is down from 34 per cent a decade ago and only a few per cent more than other states and territories.

Nationally, the proportion of male teachers has fallen everywhere except in the Northern Territory.

The Education Department does not run specific programs to recruit male teachers, prompting MPs and school leaders to call for a more targeted strategy.

Opposition education spokesman David Pisoni said the department should consider applying for exemptions from equal opportunity laws to recruit only men for some school positions "if we're serious about stemming the decline".'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women earn 20 percent of all bachelor degrees in physics, engineering and computer science.

2018 workforce projections show 9 of 10 of the fastest growing occupations that mandate bachelor degrees require significant scientific or mathematical training.

Science and engineering occupations are predicted to grow faster than the average rate of all other occupations, and some of the largest increases will be in engineering and computer-related fields.

Sources: American Association of University Women 2010 “Why so Few” report; The National Science Foundation; and the U.S. Department of Labor

“Engineers design things people use daily — including buildings, bridges, computers, cars, wheelchairs and X-ray machines. When women are not involved in the design of these products, needs of women may be overlooked. Consider some of the early voice-recognition systems; they were calibrated to typical male voices. Women’s voices were unheard.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Microsoft believes they need diverse teams to encourage innovation and ensure technological advancements. With women accounting for only 18% of the Bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer and information sciences and support services in the U.S. as of 2009-2010, Rane and Microsoft realize the need to grow interest at a younger age to attract more women to the field of technology. Working with their communities, governments, NGOs/IGOs, and academic and research institutions, they inspire women with creative thinking skills to pursue technical careers.

Site for book by the title here. Excerpt:

"Some stories need be told and others heard at any cost. This is one such story. The system does not want it published and the law prohibits its disclosure. The societal and judicial prejudices are on display but the law as it stands will at any cost try and bury this disclosure. The author is staring imprisonment but willing to accept the consequences. Why not share the tears and joy that make us all human."

From the Amazon.co.uk link here:

Article here. Excerpt:

'German Family Minister Kristina Schröder has long had something of an adversarial relationship with the country's feminists. Not only has she refused to support hard quotas for women in top management positions, but she also has repeatedly broadsided "early feminism" or "feminists from the last century" for failing to recognize that "partnerships and children produce happiness." For many women's rights veterans, Schröder's book published last spring, in which she essentially declares the dawning of the post-feminist era, was something of a last straw.

Now, Schröder is wading even further into the gender debate. On Monday, she will open a two-day conference specifically focusing on issues specific to men as society strives to achieve gender equality. Called "Men's Policies: Contributions to a Gender Equitable Society," the gathering is the first such high-level conference ever held on men's issues in the German-speaking world. And, as Schröder has made clear, comes not a moment too soon.

Story here. "Difficulties", indeed. Plenty of male lawyers and judges would love to have your "difficulties", Mme. Justice. Excerpt:

'If Elena Kagan was not a woman, she may not be sitting on the country's highest judicial bench, the Supreme Court justice told an audience at the University of Tennessee on Friday.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Durban - A Durban regional court magistrate has warned a woman who falsely cried rape about the seriousness of her actions, and said it had been the third such incident before him in just one week.

The woman, 18, in a bid to have charges against the accused withdrawn, told magistrate Anand Maharaj on Friday that she had laid charges against the young man in the dock for raping her because she was upset.

It appears she had caught him in a compromising position.

Maharaj said it was the third case in his court in which a woman applied for charges to be withdrawn after making a false statement that she had been raped.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'As gentlemen’s clubs in London become more and more irrelevant, a new elite club is getting ready to open its doors next month … to women only.

Grace Belgravia, located in the posh area of the same name, bills itself as “inclusive and exclusive.” Membership will cost £5,500 (approximately $8,785) annually.
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Following the announcement, another Telegraph writer voiced her opinion about the benefits of women’s clubs. “Men (sorry, chaps) are exhausting,” she writes.

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'Speaking at a press briefing, Dr Rachel Seleka revealed that so far 133 inmates have undergone circumcision at their clinics. "So far we have at least 133 inmates from Gaborone, Moshupa and Molepolole prisons circumcised since April last year but we have not taken our initiative to the northern part of the country," she said.

Government introduced the SMC programme a few years ago, and there have been calls for the initiative to be extended to other vulnerable groups outside mainstream society. Seleka said they have discovered that inmates take health related issues more seriously when they are incarcerated.

Ottawa Film Festival to Show Fathers Rights Movie

Saturday-November 3rd @ 5 pm

Meet Journalist Barbara Kay, FACT’S Brian Jenkins and many other brothers in the Fathers Rights struggle.

This is the first-ever, Fathers Rights Film shown by a festival organizer in Ottawa, Please Forward to other Ottawa and Area contacts as the family law situation in the USA is exactly replicated in Canada. . This is a major celebration of public notice being taken of the family law disaster and placed on the public record by means of film of the divorced fathers nightmare. The Free Thinking Film Society has taken a momentous decision and needs to be congratulated for this effort. Please show your support of the festival itself and this film in particular.

http://www.freethinkingfilmfest.ca/schedule.html

Video here. Imagine a similar thing like this only with the sexes reversed? Suppose the idea would ever even leave the conference room in which it was brought up?

Some of you guys, this may not bother. That's fine. But if it does, the contact form is here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Colorado Child Support Commission is pursuing legislation in 2013 to update the guidelines. The legislation being recommended is the result of the work of the Child Support Commission that was convened in September 2009 and completed its review in December 2010.

The Colorado Child Support Commission is charged with conducting a review of the child support guidelines at least every four years. According to Colorado law, the Commission must consider economic data on the cost of raising children and other related issues. Colorado is one of thirty-seven states that uses the income shares model made popular by Jane C. Venohr, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Center for Policy Research.'

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Article here. Excerpt:

'From next October quoted companies will be made to carry out gender audits and report publicly on the number of women and men they hire.

The recommendation was contained within the Lord Davies women on boards review, which urged companies to get better at scouting and hiring talented women into senior management roles. At present women make up just 16pc of FTSE 100 board roles.

The mandatory requirement to list the number of women and men in jobs will help shine a spotlight on gender inequality, the Department for Business said.

It is hoped that investors will pile pressure on companies to up the number of women employed should the gender audit reveal low numbers.