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British Airways staffs entire flight with dads and their kids in honor of Father’s Day
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In honor of Father’s Day, British Airways recently surprised some of the dads on staff with a special assignment – working a long-haul flight alongside their children, who are also employed by the carrier.
More women are hunting moose in Maine
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Women have frequently been in the minority when it comes to big game hunting, but there was a noticeable change this year in Maine.
Anti-abortion lawmaker in Mexico tells women ‘think before spreading your legs’
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"Why won't they recognize that they're asking the government, the taxpayer, to be responsible for their irresponsible sexual activity?" he said in the interview.
A female football referee in Italy suffered sexist abuse as a 14-year-old player exposed himself to her during a match. The player lowered his shorts after she awarded a corner kick. He then challenged her to expel him or to perform sexual practices on him.
“I hope that I’ve inspired others, both women and men, to go after what they want and not to give up until they get it,” Gunawan said.
UN draws fire after electing Somalia, Congo to women’s rights boards: ‘Asking the fox to guard the chickens’
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“The election to U.N. women’s rights bodies of countries such as Somalia, where female genital mutilation is widespread, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, which many consider the rape capital of the world, is a betrayal of the UN’s founding principles,” Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, an independent monitoring group based in Switzerland said.
The judge said he gave Piche the lower-level designation because he had no prior arrests and there was only one victim.
Purdue holds gender-neutral homecoming, honoring ‘royalty’ rather than king, queen
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Students decided to do away with the traditional “king” and “queen” labels for the ceremony’s respective male and female winners, instead bestowing them with the title of “homecoming royalty.” “Our goal is to identify the best students to represent Penn State without regard to their gender, gender identity or gender expression,” said Ally Berdan, the committee’s executive director.
“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these, and so we have reason to presume that it was not created in response to labor market needs, and equally not to furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labor market,” a government spokesman said. It is also questionable to what extent studies with admittedly such low student numbers are economical and sustainable.”
Pretty Scale site blasted for brutally rating looks of 10,000 women a month who Google ‘Am I ugly?’
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Pretty Scale was launched in 2011 and works by analysing photos to provide a number from one to 100 — ugly to beautiful. Not only does it give you a cruel label, but it also breaks down your face to reveal exactly how you are falling short of being beautiful, from your nose size to your facial symmetry.