Article here. Excerpt:

'Fox News dismissed the fact that women are paid less than men as "not a national problem." In fact, studies consistently show that an earnings discrepancy between men and women persists, even when accounting for a variety of factors.
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Angle's assertion rested on a statement from U.S. Census Bureau spokesman David Johnson who recently stated: "We don't have a way of measuring equal pay for equal work. We try to compare the earnings of full time, year-round work between men and women."

Angle trumpeted the statement to mean that it's "not true" the assertion that women earn on average 77 cents for every dollar men earn. Angle also explained away the discrepancy by saying women often work less hours than men and that it's "the result of personal choices."

He added: "Now there may be some discrimination somewhere but it is not the national problem President Obama says he's fixing. In fact, analysts say young female college graduates now often make more than men."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'They don't tell you about indoor skateparks. They show you the ultrasound, they hand you the wrinkly baby and say, 'a little boy'. What they don't say is, 'you will spend every day of the school holidays at an indoor skatepark.'

My son is eight and rides a blue scooter. He got it for his birthday and for about ten minutes was content to ride it up and down the sidewalk in front of the house. Then he decided we should go to a small skatepark.
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But then my son started school. He goes to a friendly little primary establishment where everyone knows him and he is making steady progress. But he doesn't love it. His handwriting is atrocious, he finds sitting for long periods a drag, and he doesn't understand why the girls are 'better at everything'.

He likes sport and art. Both of these involve, according to him, 'doing stuff' and not just sitting. I say to him that he has to learn to sit and that all of the other stuff is really important but I am starting to see his point.

Story here. Excerpt:

'One Whistler RCMP sergeant found out what it was like to walk a mile in a woman’s shoes when he donned high heels to raise awareness for violence against women, but feminism experts say the event may be counterproductive.

Sgt. Rob Knapton joined 30 other men who marched together in red high heels in Whistler Village on Sept. 23 to raise awareness for sexual assault and domestic violence against women.
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“For us, the connection with ‘sexual assault’ is already embedded in "high heeled shoes" because they are culturally marked as ‘feminine,’” the post said.
But founder of Vancouver-based the F Word: Feminist Media Collective Nicole Deagan said while the intentions of the event are good, associating high heels with sexual assault is a problem.

Newsletter here. Excerpt:

'Dear NOW Leaders and Members,

The purpose of the Family Law Committee Newsletter is to provide continuing education about current news and information regarding the ongoing crisis for mothers and children in family
courts. We hope you find the information we share with you of value as you go about your work on behalf of women and their families, and you are encouraged to share it with members of the public.

This Special Report of the NOW Family Law Ad Hoc Advisory Committee focuses on the destructive ability of abusive parents (usually the father) – aided by fathers’ advocacy groups or fathers’ rights groups – to deny the protective parent (usually the mother) custody of minor children. Discussed in this issue is how abusers deny custody, and the damage it causes to a half million or more children exposed to continuing physical, psychological and sexual abuse.

This kind of item usually doesn't get onto MANN but I felt I had to run it. Article here. This is an example of how much misery a man can sit on, just bluff his way through it, until he can't take it anymore. A lot of senseless tragedies unfold wherein a man just loses it one day and does great harm to himself, or to himself and others. And I am not just talking about violent harm, but things such as chronic substance abuse. Not surprisingly though that a man may end up this way, if he is abused as a child and told at every turn to "deal with it like a man", either explicitly or through the many numerous suggestions and examples all around him. So the take-home message is this: It's more important to get to feeling good about being alive and living life positively than to do yourself the disservice of trying to meet everyone else's expectations of you and forcing yourself to grin your way through it. Excerpt:

The title is "Enrollment Drops Again in Graduate Programs" but the real story is this: in grad school programs, 58% of enrollees are female. Yet is anyone saying this is a crisis that requires a Title IX-like attack to fix it like they would if the genders were reversed? No, you can hear a pin drop, the silence is so deafening. Article here. Excerpt:

'Enrollment in college is still climbing, but students are increasingly saying no to graduate school in the United States.

New enrollment in graduate schools fell last year for the second consecutive year, according to a report from the Council of Graduate Schools.
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Women continued to outnumber men in the nation’s postgraduate programs, 58 percent to 42 percent, in the 2011 report.'

Story here. So how many girls out after 10:00 or truant during school days or hanging out on street corners do you suppose will get stopped and questioned or arrested by the police? The violence they are dealing with is indeed tragic. But does 4 recent killings warrant threatening calling in the National Guard? For every one murderous young man there are many thousands who are not; is taking away their right to go on about their business in keeping with the right to be presumed innocent? Violence in cities like Detroit and Camden is a serious problem, but are their mayors taking such drastic measures? In essence I see this as basically outlawing the public appearance of under-aged males for the better part of most days. Excerpt:

'EAST ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Angered by the recent murders of four young people, the mayor announced today that police are going to impose drastic new measurers to keep teens off the streets.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The most important things we do for our children are personal: we support them, we feed them, we convey to them our values, and we nurture their development into competent, self-reliant adults. But sometimes there are very important political things we need to do for our children. Now is one of those times.

Federal law requires that states review their child support guidelines every four years. The work of the 2013 Ohio Child Support Guidelines Advisory Council is underway now. The Council is seeking your input. And Fathers and Families of Ohio wants to make sure they receive it.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A judge has acquitted a Toronto teacher of sexually assaulting a former student when he was 15.

Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon delivered his verdict Friday.

The complainant “may have been telling the truth” but his evidence was inconsistent, both internally and with some of the facts, McMahon said

“It is unsafe in law to base a conviction on his evidence,” the judge said.

While McMahon found the teacher to be largely credible, he said Gowans showed poor judgment in getting so close to her former pupil, and could not accept that she had no idea he was sexually obsessed with her.'

Article here. I do not believe in paddling children but for some reason the outrage only exists towards male teachers paddling female students. Excerpt:

'About 75 percent of the state's school districts use corporal punishment, including Springtown, a town of about 2,700 located about 30 miles northwest of Fort Worth, according to People Opposed to Paddling Students, a group based in Houston. Some of the major districts, including Fort Worth, don't paddle students.

"It is never OK to hit a child. ... Men should not be padding teenage girls, because there is a sexual connotation with teen girls but also with teen boys," said Jimmy Dunne, president of People Opposed to Paddling Students.

State Rep. Alma Allen, D-Houston, thinks schools should never spank children, but her bill to abolish corporal punishment in Texas schools never passed. She said the compromised version of her bill, which did become law, was that parents could opt in.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'TRENTON — A state Assembly committee approved a bill Thursday that would allow some domestic violence victims to testify remotely on camera, despite questions over whether it’s constitutional.

Sandy Clark, executive director of the New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women, said the legislation might encourage some victims to participate in the prosecution of their attackers.

But some lawmakers questioned whether the law would violate the provision in the Constitution allowing suspects to confront their accusers. The Democrat-led panel voted to advance the bill while the constitutional question is researched.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Tororo women are discouraging their husbands from undergoing circumcision, health authorities have disclosed.

Willy Mungoma, the district health educator, said most of the women think their husbands may take long to heal, thereby denying them sex.

"In our routine sensitisation programmes and radio tallkshows, women challenge us to explain how long their husbands would take to heal. This is because they think taking a long time to heal would make them miss sex," he said.
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He urged parents to support the education of their children, saying this would eliminate early marriages and prevent them from engaging in sex before they are 18.

Participants recommended that health centres start encouraging the distribution of condoms to pupils and students who may need them. This Ministry of Education and Sports banned the distribution of condoms in schools.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A task force in Nyanza wants women to encourage their husbands and boyfriends to get circumcised.

The chairman of the task force on male circumcision, Jackson Kioko, told a stakeholders' forum yesterday that women must be incorporated in the programme for better results.

"Now we must reach out to men who have been slow to embrace medical male circumcision despite being aware of its benefits. HIV peaks after 24 years. Therefore, those men at 25 and above are at risk and in need of VMMC services. Reaching out to this age group will require women," said Kioko.

Kioko said women will be key driving forces behind the attainment of the targeted age group since male circumcision involve their health as well. He said the success achieved in circumcising over 500,000 men was due to the influence and role of the women in inspiring men to go for the cut and called on the women to continue with the campaign.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It didn't sit right with Lawrence E. Adjah that there were a lot of women standing up during their Caltrain commute, so he decided to take a stand. Adjah, a media and entertainment entrepreneur in Palo Alto, decided to make an announcement, asking for seated able-bodied men to give their seats to standing ladies. Passengers complied and Adjah posted a picture of the standing men and seated women to his Facebook page with the caption, "We did it! All the men agreed to stand! There are no women on this Caltrain standing. Small victories family, small victories." Gathering dozens of likes in minutes, the post stood as a testament to chivalry not being entirely dead. However, nice things rarely go rewarded, and a vocal minority of disapproving men, presumably Adjah's friends, voiced their opinion on Adjah's activism, claiming that chivalry should be dead, citing gender equality as the basis for dismissing Adjah's efforts.

Our nation’s system of laws is rooted in the notion that rights are God-given, and these rights cannot be revoked at the whim of government bureaucrats.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), advanced by then-senator Joe Biden in 1994, assumes the opposite: that fundamental protections and guarantees of the Bill of Rights are subject to negotiation and “reinterpretation.”

SAVE has just released a report, “An Assault Upon our Civil Rights,” which documents how VAWA has rolled back a broad range of civil liberties that most Americans take for granted: Equal protection under law, the presumption of innocence, due process, the right to freedom from undue government interference, and many more.

For 12 fundamental rights, the SAVE report identifies the relevant Constitutional amendments, pertinent Supreme Court rulings, and an estimate how many persons whose rights are removed each year. The SAVE report can be seen here: http://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/SAVE-Assault-Civil-Rights.pdf