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.

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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'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.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Males, not females, are presently the ones being discriminated against. By arbitrarily forcing males and females to have parity in sports and not in other extra curricular activities, an unattractive and hostile environment for males in higher education communities has been created. Not only are the contact sports teams, that are part of the male DNA dwindling, young college men are vulnerable to persecution under Title IX even with consensual sexual partners.

In the recent past these sexual encounters have not been considered sexual assault. These sexual encounters between college students on campus were usually not prosecuted by the local criminal system because they were "he said, she said" incidents where the rights of both parties have to be protected. After initial university and/or police investigation found probable cause that a possible sexual assault took place, it was turned over to the courts for prosecution.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Feminists have long abused the law called Title IX in order to cancel men’s sports teams in colleges and universities. For example, they have forced colleges to cancel hundreds of college wrestling teams because the feminists hate anything so masculine as wrestling. Now the feminists are making the same kind of assault against men who are interested in science and math. The feminists, who virtually control the Obama Administration, have gotten the federal government to announce a new set of rules to enforce Title IX in what are called the STEM courses. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. There has never been any discrimination in the STEM courses; they are open to males and females on the same basis. But traditionally more men are interested in those subjects than women.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A merry group of men and women gathered in the McCune conference room on Monday, Oct. 15, to kick off University of California Santa Barbara’s two week celebration of Title IX.

Signed by President Nixon, Title IX was added to the Higher Education Act of 1965 in 1972. The act is widely known for expanding opportunities for female athletes at the college level, and it also bans sexual discrimination from any federally funded educational program or activity. Female professors, graduate school applicants and athletes, once small in numbers compared to their male counterparts, became legally protected from discrimination thanks to Title IX.
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“I think we will have a wonderful opportunity to have a dialogue,” she said, speaking to her diverse audience. Chancellor Yang came to offer opening remarks about the celebration. He discussed the welcomed implementation of Title IX at UCSB and the progress made by women on campus because of the law.

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'As pediatricians gather Saturday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, they'll be greeted by protesters urging the medical group to rethink its position on an issue that makes most people squirm: the circumcision of newborn boys. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics doesn't recommend routine removal of infants' foreskins -– that has been its stance since 1999 -– its report, released two months ago, does cite literature saying that the procedure can prevent urinary-tract infections, cancer of the penis and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.

Such benefits, the report says, justify its coverage by private insurance and Medicaid. Louisiana is one of 18 states where Medicaid does not pay for the procedure.

Opponents, who call themselves "intactivists," go beyond mere opposition to the circumcision of healthy infants.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sydney (CNN) -- The Australian Macquarie Dictionary has re-ignited the so-called gender war that shone so brightly after the country's prime minister's blistering attack on sexism and misogyny in parliament earlier this month.

Julia Gillard's tirade, which drew global attention, and at the time of writing had been viewed almost two million times on You Tube, was directed at the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott.

"The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well, I hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and he is writing out his resignation," Gillard blared.

Slate has recently published an interactive map purporting to show income inequality by gender down to the county level, based on the US Govt. data from the American Community Survey. You'll immediately notice the ubiquitous pink and red tones screaming that women earn up to 50% less than men.

Lets educate them a bit in the comments shall we?

Article here. Will wonders never cease? I think years of walking a few miles in mens' mocassins has taught her a few lessons. Wonder if she'd recognize that whining panderer she was not too long ago if she met her in the hallway? Now I don't see this as proof of a magical transformation; I have no doubt she still cares diddly about males, much less men's issues-- after all, she's still Mrs. Circumcision-For-All-African-Men, last I knew. But I'm glad to see that after so much time, she's finally grown up some and not only seems to have stopped her endless whining herself but has developed a healthy intolerance for it. Better late than never. Excerpt:

'Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says in a new interview that she can’t stand “whining” by women who are unhappy with the work and family choices they’ve made in life and complain that they have no options.

Unbelievable, but read it here. Excerpt:

'Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky asked a judge on Thursday to overturn his child sexual abuse convictions and grant him a new trial, claiming his lawyers lacked sufficient time to prepare and the statute of limitations for some charges had expired.

Sandusky's lawyers made the filing at the courthouse in Bellefonte where he was sentenced two weeks ago to 30 to 60 years in prison after being convicted of abusing 10 boys, some on Penn State's campus in State College.

''The defendant submits the court's sentence was excessive and tantamount ... to a life sentence, which the defendant submits is in violation of his rights,'' they wrote.

The 31-page set of motions, technically not appeals because they were filed with the trial judge, cover a wide range of assertions, including insufficient evidence, improper use of hearsay testimony and improper rulings from the bench.'