An internal survey at the University of Michigan of students’ experience with sexual misconduct found that more than 20% of undergraduate women had been touched, kissed or penetrated without their consent, prompting the university to use new tactics to address the problem.
In response to the survey results, the University of Michigan will expand the healthy sexual relationship training the school already holds for incoming freshmen to sophomores, juniors and seniors, so that they can address age-specific issues as students mature, Rider-Milkovich said.

Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who admitted that he has a reputation for being a “chauvinist”, said to the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”
Hunt said he was in favour of single-sex labs, adding that he didn’t want to “stand in the way of women”.

LONDON — A Nobel laureate has resigned as honorary professor at University College London after saying that female scientists should be segregated from male colleagues because women cry when criticized and are a romantic distraction in the laboratory.
The comments by Tim Hunt, 72, a biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for groundbreaking work on cell division, added fuel to a global cultural debate about discrimination against women in science.

Twenty-first-century science has a great deal in common with the medieval apprentice system. Young scientists, typically graduate students and postdoctoral fellows like me, join the laboratory of an established principal investigator, who is rarely involved in hands-on experimentation, but has near-absolute authority in hiring. Only when this lengthy period of training is complete might a young scientist hope to establish an independent laboratory of her own, but she will always be known as having trained in Dr. So-and-so’s lab.

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The most popular Hindi films in recent months have been led by women: A clever fat girl marries a dimwit, they eventually fall in love and participate in a race in which the wife has to ride piggyback on her husband. A small-town bride who is stood up by her groom decides to go on her honeymoon to Paris anyway, alone.
These films are not tributes to emancipation. Rather, they are just like the ones with men in the lead. And they have been made for the purest reason in commercial cinema: They make money.

Bức xúc về chế độ lương hưu sau hàng chục năm cống hiến cho ngành giáo dục không đáp ứng mức sống tối thiểu, hàng trăm giáo viên mầm non khiếu kiện đề nghị được giải quyết. Tỉnh Thanh Hóa đã có báo cáo gửi Thủ tướng Chính phủ đề nghị xem xét giải quyết.

The California Senate’s passage of the End of Life Option Act last week, which would allow terminally ill people to choose to end their lives, filled me with both joy and sadness.
The bill — which needs the approval of the State Assembly and Gov. Jerry Brown to become law — would have made all the difference when I tried to help my friend Robin kill herself five years ago.

Almost two million people over age 65, or nearly 6 percent of those Americans (excluding nursing home residents), rarely or never leave their homes, researchers recently reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The homebound far outnumber the 1.4 million residents of nursing homes.

To the small extent that we have any choice in this uncertain life, it is wise to face your own death. In a world where so many of our fellow human beings live with threats of terror and destruction, if you are lucky enough to imagine you might have any measure of control over how you die, that is a privilege that should not go to waste.
Our deaths are the last message we leave for those we love. How my parents died — in comfort — was the way they cared for me after they were gone. I was not ready to lose them in my 20s, but they had prepared and so I was protected.