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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/09/08/no-trump-and-lauer-military-sexual-assaults-are-not-about-men-and-women-having-sex/ These findings show that military sexual assault is not a male-and-female problem, as Trump says, or that it should be expected as long as women serve in the military, as Lauer suggests. Their statements indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of sexual assault. Rape and sexual assaults are crimes of violence,Continue Reading

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http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/288360/how-sexist-is-new-zealand-politics Ms King, who was first elected in 1984, was the obvious choice as “Labour’s best performer” but people always want a “shiny new face”, Ms Collins says. In the politics game, she says, it is seen as a bad thing for a female politician to be middle-aged – despiteContinue Reading

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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/fear-of-a-female-president/497564/ It gets worse. In a study of several hundred people, Jennifer Berdahl of the University of British Columbia found that women who “deviated from traditional gender roles—by occupying a ‘man’s’ job or having a ‘masculine’ personality” were disproportionately targeted for sexual harassment. But sexual harassment isn’t more likely onlyContinue Reading

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sharing-on-social-media-actually-boosts-your-memory-study-finds_us_57d1b216e4b03d2d459946b7 Memory researchers have long-known that when people write about personal experiences, reflect on them or talk about them with others, they tend to remember those events much better, notes a press release on the study by Cornell University. Researchers asked 66 Cornell undergraduates to keep a daily diary forContinue Reading

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http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12847456/clinton-trump-sexism In fairness, Priebus’s reasoning is motivated — it’s not like he wouldn’t have tweeted something critical of his party’s opponent. At the same time, he was just voicing a criticism that plenty of people (mostly men) have had of Clinton for her entire presidential campaign, and her entire politicalContinue Reading

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Half of all NZ men experience online harassment – survey http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/312786/half-of-all-nz-men-experience-online-harassment-survey Three out of four New Zealand men under 30 and more than half of all men have been victim to online harassment, a survey has shown. Cybersecurity company Symantec surveyed 505 men and found men have copped abuse forContinue Reading

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Christchurch man jailed over child sex video http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/christchurch-man-jailed-over-child-sex-video-2016090719 A Christchurch man who paid an Auckland woman $300 to send him a video of her sexually abusing a 15-month-old child has been sentenced to five years jail. In June, Matthew Garland Kelly pleaded guilty to 16 charges including 10 of possessionContinue Reading