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'The National Organization for Women is pretending that the failure of the Paycheck Fairness Act in the Senate is a big blow to women.

It’s not: This bill would have encouraged more class-action lawsuits and made workplaces less flexible and efficient by encouraging the adoption of one-size-fits-all compensation practices. Trial lawyers would have been the only real beneficiaries of the Paycheck Fairness Act’s new legal regime. Women who want more job opportunities and greater flexibility should welcome the bill’s defeat.
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Of course, this didn’t stop the National Organization for Women from repeating the tired line, “It is unacceptable that women are still paid, on average, 77 cents for every dollar paid to men,” with the clear — and misleading — suggestion that this gap is driven by discrimination. Yet certainly the Washington Post’s exposé on the statistic is a step in the right direction.'

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'America’s “wage gap” between men and women may be more paper-thin than Democrats are letting on, and it’s non-existent among those with a college degree.

President Obama and Senate Democrats have recently taken to repeating Census Bureau numbers showing that U.S. women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, but that figure may not be the best representation of the facts. At the least, it’s not the only representation.

The Census Bureau report is based on workers who earn an annual wage, so it doesn’t take into account professions like school teachers who don’t necessarily work year-round, the Washington Post reports.'

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'IOWA CITY -- A mother who falsely represents the identity of the father of her child can be sued for fraud and ordered to pay back financial support she received, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The court reluctantly opened the door to claims of paternity fraud, a controversial and particularly messy area of litigation that had not been recognized in Iowa. Chief Justice Mark Cady warned litigants to use caution in bringing such cases, saying they would be hard to prove, emotional and embarrassing.

"In the end, it becomes painfully obvious that parties pushed into the justice system over a paternity fraud claim could never leave it unscathed, and the standards of justice will certainly be stretched to their limits, even if justice is attainable," Cady wrote in a concurrence to the 7-0 decision. "This consequence may cause many reasonable, caring people to simply leave the claim dormant for the betterment of others."'

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'After giving his concession speech in the race where Governor Scott Walker won his own recall election, a woman came up to him and asked, “Can I slap you?” Apparently, she was upset about him conceding while she felt there were still votes to be counted, reports Politico.

Barrett responded, “I’d rather you hug me.” Thinking he had made himself clear, he leaned down and received a slap in the face.

The Washington Times reports that Barrett was stunned and “just simply walked away after that.”'

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In Wake of Abdalla Suspension, SAVE Says Sex Abuse Policies Recall ‘Soviet-Style’ Justice

WASHINGTON / June 5, 2012 – Following revelations of denial of due process protections to Hany Abdalla, accused by an anonymous source of sexual abuse of an 8-year-old student, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on lawmakers to investigate the problem of false allegations of abuse.

Abdalla, who works as a teacher’s aide in a New York City school, was arrested on April 25. The next day the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced it would not prosecute the case and released the man. Abdalla, father of 3, had worked at the school since 2007 and had no prior investigations or convictions on his record. Abdalla always worked with other adults in the room, according to the man’s attorney.

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'TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida woman was being held without bail Monday after she allegedly doused her husband with nail polish remover and set his arm on fire.

Idalmis De Armas, 40, faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and resisting an officer, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

She poured the chemical on her husband's arm and shorts and lit it with a cigarette lighter at around 11:00pm Saturday at their home in Tampa, according to an arrest report.

She admitted to officers who arrived at the scene that she had lit her husband on fire, and tried to pull away when they attempted to handcuff her, police said. The motive for the attack was not known.'

Readers knowledgeable or with direct experience of such issues may want to ensure that mens' fertility concerns are also adequately addressed.

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'A Scottsdale man is claiming that a Barnes & Noble bookstore discriminated against him when an employee forced him out of the store because he was a male shopper alone in the children's area.

Omar Amin, 73, said store worker Todd Voris told him that a female shopper had complained about him being in the children's area May 4 in the store at Shea Boulevard and Loop 101 in Scottsdale.

Amin, who was alone at the time, said he was in Barnes & Noble to buy books for his two grandchildren who live in Wisconsin.

"Men alone cannot be by themselves in the children's area," Amin said he was told, adding that Voris said other bookstores had encountered problems with child molesters.'

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'An Australian woman living in Canada who drowned her two young sons in a bathtub has been sentenced to six years in jail.

Allyson McConnell, 33, will serve about 15 months after being credited for the time she has already spent in custody, The Calgary Herald reports.
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Court of Queens Bench Justice Michelle Crighton recommended McConnell serve her sentence at Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, where she has been in psychiatric care since the killings.

During her trial in March, the court heard the Australian had been going through a bitter divorce in late 2009 and early 2010. She was described as having been tired, stressed and depressed before the killings.'

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'President Barack Obama, his re-election fortunes heavily dependent on women, pushed Congress on Monday to "step up and do its job" by passing a bill designed to erase the wage gap between male and female workers doing the same job.

With Senate Republicans expected to block the Paycheck Fairness Act when it comes up for a vote on Tuesday, Obama urged supporters of the measure to make an 11th-hour push on behalf of the legislation.

"At a time when we're in a make-or-break moment for the middle class, Congress has to step up and do its job," the president said on a conference call. "But let's face it: Congress is not going to act because I said it's important; they're going to act because you guys are making your voices heard."

"So senators have to know you're holding them accountable. Everything that they're going to be hearing over the next 24 hours can make a difference in terms of how they vote," the president said.'

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'Sweden has a reputation as having the most equal relations between the sexes in the world—it’s a place where male politicians are voted "woman of the year" by feminists, where young dads on paternity leave take toddlers for play dates while their wives work, where a preschool can casually ban gendered pronouns. A recent World Economic Forum report claimed Sweden is the most gender equal country in the world.

Yet some Swedish women apparently think that the image of the Nordic country as a feminist's paradise is just a veneer hiding deep-seated misogyny. Their evidence? Men slouching and taking up more than one seat on buses, trains, and subways.

Via email from a reader in Sweden:

I want to give you a tip about a book that gives a history of sexual politics in Sweden, and thus focuses a lot on the political radical feminism we have here, by simply giving a timeline of events, starting in the 50's and leading up to the Assange case. I don't think people outside Scandinavia understand how extreme the situation is here - this book explains it all. I would be really happy if you could spread the word about this book, perhaps you might be interested in it yourself, since I believe this information may deliver a serious blow to the extreme feminists we have here.

The book: A Brief History of Swedish Sex: How the Nation that Gave Us Free Love Redefined Rape and Declared War on Julian Assange

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'But not every crude and hateful slam at a woman is misogynist; sometimes, it's just crude and hateful. An anatomical epithet toward a woman is not automatically worse than the male equivalent. Calling a female politician a bitch is not automatically worse than calling a male politician a scumbag, an overwhelmingly male-directed slur. Rocker and right-wing activist Ted Nugent's invitation to Hillary Clinton to "ride one of these into the sunset" while brandishing two rifles at a 2007 concert was no more disgusting than his simultaneous invitation to Barack Obama to "suck on this" (and there's no reason to think that Nugent would have been kinder to a top Democratic presidential contender who was male and white).

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'Marilyn Frye, a leader in the feminist movement, often referred to a birdcage as a metaphor for the oppression of women. With a myopic focus we see only the individual wire and ponder why the bird does not simply fly around it. But with a macroscopic viewpoint we realize each wire has been systematically placed, creating a confine not unlike the solid walls of a dungeon.

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'If you're reading this, you no doubt know of a father whose life has been torn apart by the family legal system. Or maybe you are that man.

This was the impetus for the making of Big Bad Dad: the filmmakers realized they simply knew too many fathers who had the same horrific, turn-your-life-upside-down stories about their experiences.

We are Ruth van Vierzen and Patrick Hodgson, the filmmakers behind this project. We have been working on this film for 4 years and we are very anxious to get this film finished and out to the masses.'