Article here. Excerpt:

'A New York City barber was accused of violating the city’s discrimination policy because he charged women three dollars more for a hair cut than men.

“I’m here for 21 years and I’ve never heard of such a thing,” said Leon Kogut, the owner of Leon’s Fantasy Cut in Brooklyn. “The guy tells me this is discrimination of a woman.”
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“A woman’s haircut requires a lot of skill,” Kogut said. “You have to style the hair, blow dry, use the mousse, the hairspray. It could take hours to get her hair cut.”

On the other hand, he said, it only takes a few minutes to cut a guy’s hair.
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“I ran away from Communism,” he said. “The system in New York City reminds me of Communism. The government can do anything to you.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ten months ago, my wife and I had our first child, a boy. He was born in London, where we’ve been living for nearly four years.

We’ve both been happy with the prenatal and postnatal health care services provided, and have been equally pleased with the day care center he’s been going to four days a week for the past four months.
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Doctors, nurses and baby sitters don’t always pay attention to me, and sometimes dodge my questions entirely. Some of them have cut me off midsentence, and they often speak directly to my wife, even though I’m standing right there.
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In the end I know it doesn’t really matter whom they call or text first. We’re both going to deal with the issues as they come. But to be so heavily involved in his life and yet feel so invisible at the same time is hard to get used to.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and domestic violence survivors pushed Sunday for Congress to renew the Violence Against Women Act.

The law, which will expire in September, passed the Senate Thursday, but faces opposition in its current form in the House, where Republicans are working on their own version of the bill.

“I want to say, to the small group in the House of Representatives moving to stop this bill. Stop it. Pass this bill,” Schumer said, calling the renewal a “no brainer.”

“Now you have extreme people who don’t care about the rights of women,” Schumer said. “They want a new bill, but their bill doesn’t even mention the word women.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, April 30, 2012—The U.S. Senate made bipartisan progress on college student rights on Friday as it passed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 (VAWA). Heeding the concerns of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Senators altered language in the final bill that might have required colleges and universities to employ our nation's weakest standard of proof in adjudicating allegations of sexual misconduct.

Petition here. Excerpt:

'Circumcision of healthy male infants is not recommended by any medical association in the world, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association. In order to protect children from medically unncessary surgery, medical professionals and medical centers must stop offering to perform such surgery.

High Country Healthcare's Silverthorne Clinic (located at 265 Tanglewood Lane, Suite E-1, Silverthorne, CO 80498) currently performs neonatal circumcision at parental request. This petition is to ask Silverthorne Clinic to stop performing circumcision.

Article here. Excerpt:

'As a man, I am baffled and, yes, troubled by the idea that reproductive rights - “choice” – only applies to women. The men have none.

Even though women can’t get pregnant without a man.

Even though the embryo is genetically half the man’s, half the woman’s.

If the woman wants an abortion and the man wants the child, he has no say.

If she wants to have the baby, and he doesn’t, he has no say.

And he’s on the hook for 18 years of child support, 21 if the child goes to college. Most of the time, the woman gets custody, even if the man is a better caretaker.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'LOS ANGELES – Adam Sandler’s comedy “That’s My Boy,” slated for release on Father's Day 2012, centers on a 13-year-old boy named Donny having a sexual relationship with his middle school teacher, resulting in a child.

Thirty years later, Donny is reunited with his now grown-up son (Andy Samberg), who fled his single father as soon as he turned 18, and it’s all fun and games as they get to know each other again.

But father/son bonding aside, is statutory rape an acceptable comic premise?

The trailer for "That's My Boy" shows young teen Donny mesmerized by his teacher “crush,” who saunters down the school corridor in slow motion. She then fondles her cleavage while staring at the child seductively in the classroom. But “things went too far.” Cut to the courtroom where Donny’s mates high-five him for impregnating his teacher. As she is dragged off to jail, she screams: “Take care of our baby, Donny!”'

Surviving Illinois Child Support
By Arthur S. Kallow
Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd. (http://dadsrights.com)

We all know about the Illinois statutory minimum child support guidelines - 20% of net pay for one child, 28% for two, 32% for three, and so forth. This is the law in Illinois.

But what many don’t know is that those minimum guideline amounts are not etched in stone. There may be ways for you to avoid being ordered to pay those amounts. In the right case, the right lawyer might be able to persuade a judge to enter an order for support that is below, maybe even substantially below, the Illinois statutory minimum guidelines.

Here are a few tips:

1. Make sure that “net income” is properly determined.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Forget the politics of the so-called war on women. When it comes to their careers anyway, women seem to be winning.

Two stories Monday highlight women's rise in the workplace. CNNMoney is the latest news outlet to discover that more men are staying home to take care of their children. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal on Monday asserts that "More Women Are Primed to Land CEO Roles."

In the CNN story, reporter Jessica Dickler writes that "a growing number of dads... are staying home with the kids." The story cites statistics from the Census showing that 32 percent of fathers with a wife in the workforce took care of their children at least one day a week in 2010, an increase from 26 percent in 2002.

Article here. Excerpt:

'It’s official: Senate Democrats will soon hold a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would update and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a senior Democratic Senate aide confirms to me.
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The vote means this will likely be the next major battle in the war over women, and it could put Mitt Romney in a delicate political spot. It will force a choice: Either he supports the measure, which would put him at odds with the Senate GOP caucus (which voted against the bill two years ago), or he opposes it, which would put Romney at odds with his own rhetorical support for equal pay for women, potentially damaging him further among crucial female swing voters.
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This Act would put more pressure on employers to prove that differences in wages are not rooted in gender difference, and would make it easier for employees to divulge information about their salaries, which would in turn facilitate deterring or challenging pay discrimination.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The pending creation of the men-only space is the source of much discussion at Simon Fraser University. Since the news broke in April, many students have questioned whether the men deserve funding. Along with that, a debate has emerged over whether women—who make up 55 per cent of undergraduate students at SFU—still need their own women-only space.
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The website lists support for the idea of a “male allies project” that would “bring self-identified men together to talk about masculinity and its harmful effects.” Masculinity, it says, “denigrates women by making them into sexual objects, is homophobic, encourages violence, and discourages emotional expression.”

Those are the very stereotypes Midgley says the men’s centre’s users might discuss.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'DENVER — Rob Manzanares has only seen his daughter once in four and a half years but that hasn’t stopped him from battling courts in Utah and Colorado to get custody of his child.

A judge in Denver Friday decided to allow him visitation rights going forward, something he calls a victory for all ‘dads’ like him who are being denied custodial rights to their children.

The situation usually happens when the birth mother and father are not married. In many states, fathers have to sign up with a state registry to assert their rights.

In Utah, experts say the laws are much more in favor of the birth mother, which is why fathers often lose custody rights when courts in that state get involved.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Oketch is among a group of women in Nairobi who are leading an initiative aimed at urging men to get circumcised.

The women comprising of public health officials, surgeons, counselors and ordinary persons, have decided to take the HIV/Aids battle to men, who are crucial in prevention of the disease.

“They are our partners and sons. We are calling them to get circumcised so that they can protect us from HIV, cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted infections (STI),” she said.

Research indicates that male circumcision reduces a man’s chances of becoming infected with HIV and other STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infection) through sex by up to 60 percent.

It also reduces the risk of transmitting Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and in women chances of getting cervical cancer, which is spread by HPV.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For those of you who missed it, on New Year's Eve, Mirkarimi and his wife, Eliana Lopez, got in a fight. He grabbed her arm and bruised it. Lopez complained to a neighbor, who videotaped her. Days later, the neighbor contacted police.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Detroit — A Wayne State University student is being charged with filing a false police report after she claimed she was sexually assaulted on campus.

As required by law, school officials issued a campus notice Wednesday about the reported sexual assault in a parking lot south of the Matthaei Building.

But after reviewing video surveillance and noting inconsistencies in her story, police again questioned the woman. She signed a statement admitting her story was false, police said.'