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Rape Victim's Body Returns for Delhi Cremation

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Amol Sharma - Dec. 30 (News) - The body of the rape victim whose death has unleashed a wave of anger and grief in India was flown back to New Delhi and was received by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party President Sonia Gandhi.

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House committee chairs all men

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jake Sherman - Nov. 28 (News Report) - House committee chairs all men

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Pakistani Assemblywoman: Girls’ Education Key to Ending Terrorism

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Viji Sundaram - Oct. 23 (Interview) - While the majority of Pakistanis do not approve of U.S. drone attacks, or of militants crossing borders and creating havoc on both sides of the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, everyone disapproves of the attack on Malala.

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'Gender Gap' Near Historic Highs

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - The biggest gender gap to date in the exit polls came in 2000, when Al Gore won by 11 points among women, but George W. Bush won by 9 points among men - a 20-point difference. The numbers this year look very close to that.

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Feminist Daily News 8/19/2011: White House Fights Back on Judicial Nominations

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

feminist.org - Aug. 22 (News) - Twenty-one percent of President Obama's nominees are African Americans and nearly 50 percent are women. By contrast, only 7 percent of President George W. Bush's nominees were African American and 23 percent were women, and President Clinton's nominees were 16 percent African American and 29 percent women. President Obama has doubled the number of Asian Americans working as federal judges. Under Obama, the first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was sworn into the Supreme Court. Moreover, four of President Obama's nominees are openly gay; neverthtless, only one has been confirmed. See Infographic: Record Judicial Diversity, Record Judicial Delays

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The Texas Tribune: Center Typifies New Face of Pregnancy Services

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By T Tan - Aug. 14 (News) - The Texas Legislature deeply cut spending for family planning, but increased funding for a conservative group called Alternatives to Abortion.

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Debt supercommittee’s membership dominated by white men

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Felicia Sonmez - Aug. 14 (News) - With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) announcement Thursday of her three appointees to the bipartisan debt “supercommittee,” the panel’s 12-member roster is now complete. It represents a broad range of ideological views, from House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) on the right to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on the left. But the group’s membership is marked by a ...

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Women! Wikipedia needs you

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jemima Kiss - Aug. 08 (Special Report) - In a revealing glimpse inside the Wikipedia kimono at its annual conference in Haifa at the weekend, co-founder Jimmy Wales described the typical Wikipedia editor as a 26-year-old geeky male with a PhD. Eventually he'll get married, go on to some other project and leave the site, said Wales. And Wikipedia's own research found that 90% of editors are male. This imbalance has meant that while technology and science are covered comprehensively, other subjects are left wanting. "The main thing is to bring in people of all different backgrounds," Wales told the event, reports the Independent. "If you do that, you increase the knowledge base of the site, which can only be a good thing. At the moment, we are relatively poor in a few areas; for example, biographies of famous women through history and issues surrounding early childcare."

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Hit the Road

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - By K.N.C. - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - The lack of child care was at one point an intentional policy choice—made by the nearly all-male political, bureaucratic and business elite—based on the belief that keeping women at home would support traditional values.

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SlutWalks and the future of feminism

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jessica Valenti - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - More than 40 years after feminists tossed their bras and high heels into a trash can at the 1968 Miss America pageant — kicking off the bra-burning myth that will never die — some young women are taking to the streets to protest sexual assault, wearing not much more than what their foremothers once dubbed “objects of female oppression” in marches called SlutWalks.

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U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lymari Morales - May. 28 (Poll) - U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian. More specifically, over half of Americans (52%) estimate that at least one in five Americans are gay or lesbian, including 35% who estimate that more than one in four are. Thirty percent put the figure at less than 15%.

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Sisterhood and the SEALs

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Journal - By Heather Mac Donald - May. 28 (Opinion) - It was just a matter of time before the successful Navy SEAL operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 provoked a complaint that SEAL teams are all-male.

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British boy wears skirt to school in protest

Wed, 11 May 2011 10:57:12 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 11 - LONDON: A 12-year-old British boy wore a knee-length skirt to school in protest against a school uniform policy banning boys from donning shorts during warm weather, according to a report Wednesday. Chris Whitehead also addressed more than 1,350 pupils at morning assembly wearing the black skirt, which boys are permitted to wear due to a [...]

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Malaysia: Boot Camp to “help” effeminate boys ·

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:43:21 -0700

Global Voices - By Syafique Shuib - Apr. 26 (Opinion) - Based on their effeminate tendencies, 66 schoolboys from the state of Terengganu in Malaysia were recently sent to a boot camp aimed at "helping them behave in a proper manner". The boys were identified by their schools, who were instructed last year to identify students who displayed feminine qualities. The blogoshere in Malaysia is divided over this issue.

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Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Minding the Campus - By Mary Grabar - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - After spending four depressing days this month at a meeting of 3,000 writing teachers in Atlanta, I can tell you that their parent group, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, is not really interested in teaching students to write and communicate clearly. The group’s agenda, clear to me after sampling as many of the meeting’s 500 panels as I could, is devoted to disparaging grammar, logic, reason, evidence and fairness as instruments of white oppression. They believe rules of grammar discriminate against “marginalized” groups and restrict self-expression.

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There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Carrie Lukas - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Recent studies have shown that the wage gap shrinks—or even reverses—when relevant factors are taken into account and comparisons are made between men and women in similar circumstances. In a 2010 study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30, the research firm Reach Advisors found that women earned an average of 8% more than their male counterparts. Given that women are outpacing men in educational attainment, and that our economy is increasingly geared toward knowledge-based jobs, it makes sense that women's earnings are going up compared to men's.

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On college campuses, a gender gap in student government - The Washington Post

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Mar. 22 (News) -

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Report says too many whites, men leading military

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Pauline Jelinek - Mar. 08 (Poll) - The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

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Female Foreign Correspondents’ Code of Silence, Finally Broken

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ProPublica - By Kim Barker - Feb. 20 (Opinion) - Lessons learned from CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan.

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Afghan Proposal Would Clamp Down on Women’s Shelters

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alissa J. Rubin - Feb. 11 (News) - The changes in the law would require a woman like Sabra to justify her flight to an eight-member government panel, which would determine whether she needed to be in a shelter or should be sent to jail or back home, where she would be at risk of a beating or even death. She would also have to undergo a physical exam that could include a virginity test.

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In China, alpha males carry designer purses

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By David Pierson - Feb. 07 (News Report) - 'It's crucial for business,' says a 41-year-old investor with a brown leather clutch. 'It shows I have good taste.'

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Necessity Pushes Pakistani Women Into Jobs and Peril

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Adam B. Ellick - Dec. 27 (News) - Dinner at Rabia Sultana’s house is now served over a cold silence. Her family has not spoken to her since May, when Ms. Sultana, 21, swapped her home life for a cashier’s job at McDonald’s.

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Global | GLOBAL: More girls in school but dropout rates high | Asia East Africa Global Great Lakes Horn of Africa Latin America and Caribbean Middle East Southern Africa West Africa | Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Burkina Faso Burundi Benin Botswana DRC C

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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UN Looking for Ways to Keep Girls in School

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Voice of America - May. 19 (News Report) - Though school enrollment has increased in recent years, experts say improved access to education must go hand-in-hand with improved quality.

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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Walmart Sex-Bias Lawsuit: Walmart Faces a Gender Discrimination Suit

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Sean Gregory - Apr. 29 (News Report) - Unfortunately for Walmart, the company received a more serious setback this week. On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled that a gender-discrimination suit against the company, first filed in 2001, could move forward as a class action, a decision that could potentially cost Walmart upwards of $1 billion, inflicting a painful wound on its much-improved corporate image.

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