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'...Business experts have expressed scepticism that the EU could impose uniform restrictions on such diverse national working cultures.

Kenneth Ahern, a professor of finance from the University of Michigan, doubted whether Britain was ready to make the necessary financial sacrifice to push women onto boards. His own research on Norway, published last year, showed that "the quota led to younger and less experienced boards, and deterioration in operating performance, consistent with less capable boards."

He told The Sunday Telegraph: "In Norway, they knew that the value of their companies would drop, but society there cared more about equality than finance. It was a conscious decision.

"For the EU to make such an important moral choice, across such a variety of countries, is a very big ask indeed. I could see there being real resistance to obligatory quotas from countries such as Germany and the UK, which prize the financial output extremely highly." '

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'Women are poised to become America's biggest breadwinners.

The tipping point is a generation away, assuming women's economic power keeps rising as expected. But already, the trend is stunning enough that TIME made it the subject of its current cover.

"Almost 40% of working wives out-earn their husbands," noted Liza Mundy, author of "The Richer Sex"--both the cover story and a new book that goes by the same title--at a breakfast in New York City, hosted by TIME and Fortune.
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Why such rapid advancement? The Pill, Mundy said, helped spark the trend 50 years ago: Newly able to delay marriage and childbearing, women began focusing on their careers. America's shift to a service economy also favors college grads, who increasingly tend to be female. Today, women make up 60% of U.S. college classes and earn more masters and doctorate degrees than men.

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'MAGNOLIA, TX (KTRK) -- A Montgomery County child was in the hospital in critical condition Saturday night and his mother was behind bars after authorities say she attacked him.

Magnolia police were called to a home in the 100 block of Roy Street near F.M. 1488 just after midnight for a welfare check on a child.

According to police, the child's father called 911 after he returned home and found his son covered in blood and unresponsive.

When authorities arrived, five-year-old Michael Spurlock was lying on the living room floor.

According to investigators, the child's throat had multiple lacerations and was sliced from one side to the other. Officials said he also had a crushed chest and severe head injury.
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Beverly Latham heard that her sister claimed she was trying to rid her son of demons, but Latham said that's uncharacteristic of her sister.

"I know my sister would never hurt her children," Latham said. "Never."

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'The Government is studying ways under which it will set up circumcision camps or clinics in schools for boys who are willing to be circumcised.

Education ministry's permanent secretary Francis Xavier Lubanga told New Vision that when arrangements are done, the ministry will send circulars to all schools in the country about the issue.

"Schools will also be instructed to communicate to the parents on how the programme will be conducted.

For children below the age of consent, written consent of the parents will be required," Lubanga explained.

He also said the education ministry would partner with the health ministry. Citing an incident where 13 students of Teso College Aloet, were recently suspended after they sneaked out of school to get circumcised, Lubanga said the number of students in need of circumcision across the country may be high.'

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'This year’s figures erased a gap that peaked at 2.6 points in May 2009, when a greater proportion of men were out of work. The differential was the largest since the government started tracking the numbers in 1948.

“It’s a function of manufacturing coming back strong and mining doing really well,” Dutta said yesterday in a telephone interview. Men have benefited more from the industries’ growth than women because they traditionally do most of the jobs, the New York-based economist added.

Even so, women are more likely to stay in school and get the college education needed for jobs in health care and other expanding industries, according to Dutta. He highlighted this trend in a report published on March 6, during International Women’s Week.

“The problems for men are mounting,” he said. “They just don’t have the skills for today’s labor force.”'

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'In 2010, a multi-partisan group of thirty-four scholars made a proposal that President Obama create a White House Council on Boys and Men, as a parallel program to the White House Council on Women and Girls. Warren Farrell, the leader of the effort, identified five different areas in which boys are in crisis—education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness. In an interview with Forbes, Farrell said that “The White House Council would signal to the world that boys and men are facing problems, alert schools and parents as to the nature of these problems, and alert all the nation’s institutions to explore how attending to these problems might help our sons, daughters, families and nation.” One educational issue to be addressed by the Council would be the huge gender gaps in educational attainment for young adults illustrated by the BLS report.

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'The men of WKU will hit the streets in high heels on Wednesday for the Interfraternity Council’s annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event.

About 40 men signed up to wear a pair of heels while walking a mile around campus to raise awareness about sexual abuse and violence against women.
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“We want to raise awareness to stop rape, violence and sexual assault,” said Phil Korba, IFC’s activities chair. “The money we raise will go to Hope Harbor.”

Hope Harbor is a non-profit organization in Bowling Green that offers support to women who are victims of abuse.
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Because they had trouble getting men to sign up, IFC postponed the deadline for signing up several times.

“We were trying to make this event bigger than last year,” Korba said. “This is out of the guys’ comfort zone. They don’t want to walk around in red high heels.”

Korba said he hopes that the event will continue and that more and more men will participate.

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'A Los Angeles weatherman has filed a lawsuit claiming he was passed over for jobs at two prominent stations because he wasn't a young, good-looking woman.

Kyle Hunter, who has worked as a meteorologist in various southern California markets during a 23-year career, filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting and its owned-and-operated Los Angeles stations KCBS and KCAL on Thursday. He's represented by Gloria Allred.

Hunter alleges "that within the past few years, KCAL and KCBS decided to hire young attractive women as weathercasters in prime time rather than men in order to induce more men to watch their prime time newscasts," according to the suit. That means there was no place for Hunter, an over-40 male meteorologist with impeccable credentials, he says.'

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'A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally.

Children at school need this type of memory on a daily basis for a variety of tasks, such as following teachers’ instructions or remembering dictated sentences.

During the study, volunteers were asked to perform one of two simple tasks during which researchers checked to ask if the participants’ minds were wandering.

At the end, participants measured their working memory capacity by their ability to remember a series of letters interspersed with simple maths questions.

Daniel Levinson, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, said that those with higher working memory capacity reported “more mind wandering during these simple tasks”, but their performance did not suffer.'

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Last week 400 Mississippi State men were pressured to walk around campus wearing high heels. [i] Billed as a rape awareness event, the activity was funded by a $300,000 grant awarded to the university under the Violence Against Women Act, [ii] as part of VAWA’s $9.4 million Violent Crimes on Campus program (Section 304).

Let me get this right…American taxpayers are spending $300,000 to pay college students to play dress-up?

Four Rapes

Rape is a terrible thing to happen. Fortunately at Mississippi State, rapes are rare. According to campus police reports, only four rapes were reported from 2005 to 2010. Of course not all rapes are reported, but it’s safe to say there is no epidemic of rape at Mississippi State.

But in 2011, the MSU Department of Outreach and Sexual Assault Services received a $300,000 grant from the Office of Violence Against Women.

According to director LeWanda Swan, the money would be used to “flood the campus with prevention education.” That included distribution of flyers in campus bathrooms that featured questionable statistics such as, “one in four women will be raped in their lifetime.”

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'In gatherer and early gardening societies, built on the matricentric core of the human family, women often had real power and prestige, when food-gathering and agriculture also meant female control of resources. Such societies achieved real gender parity of power when they constructed ways of drawing in the adult male contribution to work and parenting, conceding to him real and symbolic spheres of prestige and power, while limiting male aggression. But the conditions of such societies began to break down as the agricultural revolution moved toward more crowded urban societies about five thousand years ago, and only remnants still exist today. (170)

In a somewhat surprising, maybe even shocking, admission, Ruether, a leading feminist, says that “this matricentric pattern [of primitive societies and of families in general] is itself the breeding ground of male resentment and violence, rooted in male strategies of exploitative subversion of women’s power….” (171)

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'It has become received wisdom that women are much more likely than men to lose their jobs in the current downturn. But is it true? It sounds so plausible - women make up a larger proportion of the public sector where the cuts are biting. And the latest unemployment figures do show that of the 28,000 rise in jobless in the latest figures, 22,000 are women.

But that doesn't mean more women lost their jobs. In fact, more women have won jobs - the female employment rate in Britain has risen. In the year to last autumn, an additional 32,000 women were in work and experts say the trend has continued since then.
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'Mind, I don’t unequivocally state we are the smarter of the species. I only repeat a question posed in Foreign Service applications. Question: “Do you know what they call anybody with an IQ of 80 in Slobbovia?” Answer: “Mr. President.”

I’d never deign to think males are dim. I only wonder why big-time executives jog a half-hour for exercise then take the elevator up to the second floor.

Understand, men may complain. Like saying the wife is a lousy driver. Like: “If she were an Arab, she’d come home with a dented camel.”

But, the National Academy of Sciences with MRIs, graphs, charts, images, brain scans and maybe playing “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” has decreed that women’s brains are wired more keenly than those belonging to the manly persuasions.'