Maybe they don't want to do it?

Another a faux article that insinuates women are being discriminated against when they may just be exercising their choice.   I have know quite a few women journalists in the media - and most find it very challenging working. It seemed tp me that male reporters and technical staff were frequently "picking up the slack" for their female co-workers. The stress of "looking one's best" on-air was also an issue - and of course some wanted to pick-up their kids at school as regularly as possible.

Then the next article I saw suggested that CBS News Anchor Katie Couric started out exploring a renewal contract and realized she might make more in a syndicated program and is discussions with a number of major networks.  I guess this makes up for Oprah's retirement?

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Gender Inequality in Alberta Courts

Alberta Primetime aired this panel discussion about Gender Inequality in our Justice System.   The first segment was in part a continuation of last segment in Oct 2009 on MP Maurice VELLACOTT's PMB C422 - amending Divorce Act to include presumption of Equal Shared Parenting.

Further discussion with former Family Law Lawyer Grant BROWN, University of Alberta Sociologist Dr. Amy KALER and academic lawyer Nick BALA from Queen's University in Kingston ON.   The debate in my opinion did not really establish anything.

Man loses testicle after random, vicious kick by women

Clark was walking along 200th Avenue in the Brookswood area of Langley one afternoon in early September when he passed his assailant on the sidewalk.

“I was looking down and then I took a passing glance and saw her walk up to me,” he said.

That’s when the young woman inexplicably kicked him in the groin hard enough to send one of his testicles into his abdomen.

Clark wasn’t aware of the severity of his injury until later that night when he “noticed something was missing.”

Clark wasn’t aware of the severity of his injury until later that night when he “noticed something was missing.”

He consulted his doctor and a specialist, both of whom believed his testicle could be brought down again in surgery.

It wasn’t until he woke up afterwards that he discovered the doctors were wrong — the force of the assault had caused his testicle to rupture. It had to be removed and will be replaced by a prosthetic before Christmas.

“My doctors say I will still be able to have children,” Clark said. “But at 22 that’s not something I want a stranger, this woman, to decide.”

Embarrassed by the situation, Clark didn’t go to the police until nearly four weeks after the attack.

Constables have told him there have been three or four similar assaults on other men, Clark said.

[3-4 similar assaults? And no one has been interviewed? Would that happen if a women was sexually assaulted? (These are clearly gender-based assaults, but a sexual assault on a male can only take place when penetration occurs.) I wonder if the Police issued a bulletin as they have when suspected rapists are in neighborhoods?]