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British housewives spend nearly half their time online — shopping
“In America, domestic goddesses spend just 38 per cent of their leisure time at the computer.” »
Warren Buffett Throws Chris Matthews Hardball Question on Gender
“…audience of 10,000 women…” “If you could have changed your sex into that of a woman, would you have?” »
PARENTING: Transgender Kids: Boys Will Be Girls
“Some children are wracked with what’s called a “gender-identity disorder.” ”…article in the Atlantic Monthly examines the difficult decision of Tina Simms to allow her son Brandon to live his life as girl.” »
Madonna’s millions safe in divorce deal: experts
“London having a reputation as the “divorce capital of the world” “English courts have awarded huge payouts to the ex-wives…” ”…completely unrealistic to think could get 50 percent of wealth.” »
CA Court: End domestic-violence program discrimination
“…ordered the statutes rewritten to make them gender neutral and allow for domestic-violence services without regard to gender.” “….$22 million in state grant money is awarded annually…” »
Victory! CA Appellate Court Says Excluding Men from Domestic Violence Programs is Unconstitutional
“…taxpayer-funded programs…deny men services such as counseling, advocacy, shelter or hotel vouchers, which is endangering their children.” “Men pay at least half of the taxes that fund these programs and they should be entitled to services regardless of sex.” »
Rate of Sexual Assault in Army Prompts an Effort at Prevention
“Last month, 80 high-ranking generals gathered…” “…promised a “zero tolerance” policy for harassment or assault.” »
State Supreme Court Upholds $1.25 Million Verdict Against City of Whittier
“…she had…been given low-performance ratings after becoming a detective.” »
Supreme Court Spins Gender Violence Fairy Tale
…”gender-motivated crimes of violence are not, in any sense, economic activity.” “Congress could not enact laws to protect individuals from violations of their civil rights unless the state itself was the violator.” »
Board Veers Away From Gender Mandate
“Next school year, parents in grades 3 through 8 will be able to choose gender-separate classes for math, science, social studies and language arts.” »
Sarah Palin: A Woman for Women?
“As the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket, does she also have a responsibility to speak up about women’s issues?” »
Is testosterone to blame for the financial crisis?
“Long-term, above-average testosterone levels may perhaps eventually lead to irrational risk-taking, and thus lower profits,” said Anna Dreber…” »
White males still Sen. McCain’s biggest trump card
“While men rate defense, a strong military, the war on terrorism and national security as high on their list of concerns, women say abortion rights, education, social security, health care, equal pay and job advancement, and equal rights are highest on their list of concerns.” »
‘Ladies’ Night’ Gender Bias Suit Thrown Out of New York Court
“…nightclubs can price their products as they wish…” “ called the judge a feminist and said her dismissal of his lawsuit was consistent with the discrimination embedded in many of America’s institutions.” »
COVERAGE: I Am Woman… Hear Me Pay More
“…insurers charge 25 year-old women up to 45 percent more than 25 year-old men…” »
Separate But Equal?
“Where’s the line between helping men and discriminating against women? A community college in Texas may soon find out.” »
WOMEN DO NOT RECOVER THEIR MUSCLE STRENGTH AS FAST AS MEN AFTER WEARING A CAST
“…men were able to regain 99% of their strength within a week of removing the cast, women’s strength was still 30% lower…” »
More schools separate boys and girls
“…about 150 campuses across the country girls and boys are headed to separate classrooms.” “…need schools that understand what is best for a six-year-old girl is not what is best for a six-year-old boy.” »
AU: New rules may put women on front line
“Women now make up more than 13 per cent of Australia’s Defence Force and can serve in 90 per cent of its roles.” “… women may not possess the physical attributes required for the most demanding combat roles, the changed restrictions would see them excluded…” »
UK: Gender gap for young driver premiums increase
“…cost of car insurance policies for young men, who have just passed his driving test, can be up to double that of a newly qualified female driver…” »
Survey: Wives rule at home
“Forty-five percent of women say they manage the money…23 percent say their partner does. Men see things differently — 37 percent say they manage the money, while 30 percent report that their partner mostly handles the household finances.” »
UK: Women getting fatter as men slim down, official figures show
“…females who are seriously overweight continues to rise, with 25 per cent obese in 2005.” “…doubled over the past 15 years.” »
‘Gender-Neutral’ Restrooms Changed to ‘Single-Stalled’
“…we feel very strongly in support of the sentiment…” »
UK: Focus on Gender
“…three times as many women as men aged 90 or over.” “Women can expect to live longer than men.. spend more of their life…” “Men made more trips for business…women made more shopping trips…” »
UK: Gender gap in teaching grows: only 24% of new recruits are men:
“…fails to end female domination of classroom” »
Study Ties Wage Disparities To Outlook on Gender Roles
“Men with egalitarian attitudes about the role of women in society earn significantly less on average than men who hold more traditional views..” »
Gender Differences in Health Care Expenditures, Resource Utilization, and Quality of Care
“Women tend to use significantly more services and spend more health care dollars than men.” ” Between their late forties and early sixties, women tend to spend 50% more than men on health care.” »
Sommers: Foolishly Seeking Gender Equity in Math and Science
“MATH 55 IS ADVERTISED in the Harvard University catalog as “probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country.” “The final class roster…100 percent male.” “Why do women avoid classes like Math 55?” »
Under-fives have almost no male teachers
“Just one in 50 teachers of the youngest primary schoolchildren in England are male, despite a government recruitment campaign…” “Men account for 16% of all primary schoolteachers.” »
CA: Woman power could decide Tory fate
“Figuring they’d never stand a chance with childless career women and organic-food munching city dwellers, the Tories stayed far away…” »
What’s the Top Electoral College State This Year?
“Given the gender gaps everywhere — with McCain running well ahead of Obama among men nationally… — it seems unlikely that there would be no gender gap in Colorado.” »
Book: “The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity” by Stephen J. Ducat
“Dr. Ducat shows how anxious masculinity has been a discernible subtext in politics throughout the history of Western culture.” »
Men rule when it comes to coaching high school sports in the Genesee County area; Women make on average $1,000 less than men
“Fewer women in the coaching box means fewer role models for young girls…” “…administrators say the problem is not one of sexism — it’s lack of interest.” »
Female students outnumber males at local colleges
“…women have outnumbered men for about 30 years or more.” “…women tend to apply earlier than young men, Kiefer said. UW-L gives students who apply before Feb. 1 priority in admission.” »
Midstate school separating boys and girls in class this year
“…males are often ensnared in a culture that says being smart isn’t cool… fewer girls have been studying subjects such as physics and computer science.” »
Pay difference may not be gender-based
“Men are more likely to ask for what they think they deserve.” »
What Joe Biden can teach the British
“…more than $5bn has been awarded to governments and community-based responses under the Vawa.”…”single most significant legislation that I’ve crafted during my 35-year tenure in the Senate.” »
Biden: Hillary a Better Pick Than Me
“…she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me…” »
Words and figures divide the sexes
“…women tended to be stronger in “prose literacy”..while men tended to be stronger in numeracy.” »
Women workers should just stop whingeing about pay gap
“WOMEN are no good at demanding pay rises and have only themselves to blame for the gender pay gap, a female manager has told a Government inquiry.” »
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