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The woman, 18, in a bid to have charges against the accused withdrawn, told magistrate Anand Maharaj on Friday that she had laid charges against the young man in the dock for raping her because she was upset.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Maharaj said it was the third case in his court in which a woman applied for charges to be withdrawn after making a false statement that she had been raped.'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.

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.'

Article here. Excerpt:

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.

Link here. From the USAID Newsletter:

'In December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring Oct. 11 the International Day of the Girl Child.

The day was established to recognize girls' rights and the unique challenges they face around the world. This year marks the first time this day in honor of girls is being observed and provides an occasion for reaching out and educating others about the status of girls.

See USAID's vision on ending child marriage and meeting the needs of married children.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'As they gather Friday for the 19th annual Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Council Conference, hundreds of participants -- from domestic violence shelters to law enforcement agencies, from judges to doctors -- might be surprised to learn that their well-meaning efforts over the years were critically hampered by a lack of coordination and accountability from some of the very county officials who support their efforts.

A recent state audit revealed that $715,000 in state-mandated funds collected by the county since 1995 and meant to be distributed to local domestic violence shelters sat in an account virtually forgotten by officials until the oversight was accidentally discovered in 2010. It wasn't until earlier this year that the money was ultimately distributed to shelters.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In April of last year, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights made clear its stance that when colleges assess Title IX-related complaints on their campuses, including those involving sexual violence, they should follow the "preponderance of the evidence" standard. In other words, the accused should be found guilty if it is more than 50 percent likely that they committed the act. Those are welcome instructions.

In a recent commentary in The Chronicle, Joseph Cohn, legislative and policy director at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, argued that the low standard was unfair to the accused because the burden of proof should be higher in cases of sexual misconduct. We, however, support the use of the preponderance standard, for two main reasons: First, it protects colleges from being held liable for violating Title IX, the law that bars sexual discrimination at institutions receiving federal money; and second, it is the only standard that is equally fair to men and women.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Women graduate from college in larger numbers than men, but they fall behind when it comes to degrees in some of the fastest-growing — and most lucrative — fields. Not only did just 18% of bachelor's degrees in computer science go to women in 2010, their numbers are down from 38% in 1985, Education Department data show.

The center, a coalition of 300 corporations, colleges, government agencies and non-profits, was created in 2004 to promote efforts to reverse that decline. It has been helped along by member organizations such as the Girl Scouts, the Computer Science Teachers Association and this program, called Inspiring Girls Now in Technology Evolution, or IGNITE, offered through Seattle Public Schools since 1999.'