From: dgross@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.dads-rights
Subject: Men's Issues Newsbriefs #62
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:50:36 GMT
Reply-To: dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross)
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	Source:  Los Angeles Times (14 December 1992)
	BOYS WILL BE BOYS, SAY MAKERS OF TOYS
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Toy makers appear willing to aim their boy-oriented toys at girls, but aren't
so eager to depict boys playing with "girl toys," a pair of researchers say.
Pamela Rosenberg, a sociology professor at Gettysburg College, and her
husband, Lawrence, a professor at Millersville University, studied 250 toy
catalogue photos that included children.

Half showed toys associated with a specific sex, such as dolls, guns, trucks
and kitchen sets.  The rest showed neutral toys like puzzles, books, musical
instruments and clay.

Of the "gender-specific" toys, 70% were pictured with children who were
"culturally appropriate" -- boys with guns, girls with dolls.  Most of the
rest involved girls posing with boy-oriented toys, or mixed-sex groups.

Only two advertisements showed boys with a traditional girl toy: a kitchen set
and a toy vacuum cleaner.  No boys were pictured with dolls.

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	From: DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
	Source: The Edmonton Journal (14 December 1992)
	EQUAL OPPORTUNITY = SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION
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Fifty-eight female office workers in Sudbury, some over 54 years old, must go
underground and mine nickel if they want to keep working, Inco Ltd. has
ordered.

"It's suicide," says Shirley Erkila, 44, who's been an Inco clerk for 16
years.  "I'm scared.  We're all scared.  We're devastated.  It's insensitive.
It's terrible."

"None of us want to do it but we're being forced to do it," said Erkila, who
knows the 'dirty' job is also dangerous and difficult.  "I don't want to go
down there."

"They have three weeks to think about it" Jerry Rogers, an Inco official in
Sudbury, said yesterday.  "We have too many white collar workers and we're
short of miners.  We've got to get our costs down.  We're below our break-even
point."

Rogers said that the women must either go to 'stope school', a six week
company mining class, or be out of work.  They'll be paid by Inco to train and
"mining is not as physically demanding as it once was," Rogers said.  "Most
people will be able to do it."

The women, and some male colleagues in office jobs, were quietly handed the
company's rock-hard ultimatum by supervisors Friday at the start of Inco's
three-week mine shutdown.

One of the only two female miners at Inco, Sue Vallier, said her advice to the
white collars is "don't panic; give it a try."  Vallier, 43, is a 'mucker' at
the 1219 metre level, slushing ore from muck.  "It's hot, it's wet, but I love
it."

Besides, the single woman is making $50,000 a year for an eight hour day, "and
when I come home I'm not that tired.  But some women can't lift 10 pounds of
potatoes," Vallier cautions.  "They won't survive down there."

The United Steelworkers Union is outraged.  "We'll get every women's group in
Sudbury on this tomorrow," union leader Wayne Fraser promised.  "We'll fight
Inco on this.  It's a dangerous environment for anybody.  Women have a right
to chose their work environment.  They don't have to put these women
underground.  It's the worst form of sexual discrimination.  Systemic
discrimination, in fact. They've given these women no choice."

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	The following item is from The Central Ohio Fathers And
	Children for Equality December Newsletter
	From: noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer)

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Jury Finds Case Unusual, Acquits Dad of Non-support
By Catherine Cadisky

William Albrecht may owe $14,000 in back child support, but he's no deadbeat
dad.  He says he can't pay because he has been unable to work since 1984 when
a man who was his ex-wife's soon-to-be husband shot him in the stomach.

A jury in Franklin County Common Pleas Court agreed, and yesterday found
Albrecht of Portsmouth, Ohio, not guilty of criminal non-support.  He is one
of dozens of parents indicted for criminal non-support in recent months in a
crackdown by Prosecutor Michael Miller.

Assistant Count Prosecutor Scott Longo remained confident, however, that
Albrecht's acquittal will not set a precedent.  "This case is not the typical
non-support case because of the gunshot wound.  Most of these guys are out
working," Longo said.

Of 60 people charged in Common Pleas Court with non-support during the last
few months, about one-third already have pleaded guilty, he said.  Albrecht
was acquitted after a two-day trial before Judge Michael Close.  The jury of
four men and eight women deliberated 4 1/2 hours before reaching a verdict.

"Bill Albrecht is no deadbeat dad. He is a person who was injured and did the
best he could to provide for his kids," said Albrecht's attorney.

But Avey Colburn, a secretary with the Franklin County Adult Probation
Department, doesn't buy her ex-husband's story.  "He could work," Colburn
said.  "What does this verdict tell dads?  Just don't go out an get a job."

Colburn and Albrecht were living in Portsmouth when they divorced in 1983
after a five-year marriage.  She received custody of their two children.
Albrecht, then a high school physical education teacher, was ordered to pay
$40 a week in support.

About a year later, Albrecht was shot in the stomach by his ex-wife's new
boyfriend, Joseph Colburn, a Portsmouth lawyer.  Mr. Colburn said Albrecht was
stalking him, and the shooting was in self defense, but he was convicted of
felonious assault and served 3 1/2 years of a three- to 15-year sentence.

Over the years, Albrecht has paid about $5,800 in support to his children--a
daughter 17, and a son, 13. Prosecutors say he owes $14,000, although Albrecht
puts the figure at $9,000.  He said he has been unable to obtain a job since
the shooting and that his savings have long since been used up on legal
expenses.

But Longo said Albrecht, 45, hasn't worked because he refuses to do anything
other than teach.  "In 1985, one year after being shot, he applied for a
physical education position in Marion.  In 1987, he inquired about another
teaching position," Longo said.  "He wants to work if it involves what he
wants to do, but going out and flipping hamburgers just doesn't appeal to him."

Avey Colburn said that, in addition to her county job, she has cleaned toilets
and guarded against shoplifters.  Her eyes welled with tears yesterday as she
talked about postponing her son's braces for two years and coming up with
college tuition for her daughter.

"It's just not fair," she said. "But I would still encourage other women to
pursue criminal charges until the court system and juries realize these men
have broken the law."

Source: The Columbus Dispatch, November 13, 1992

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	Ratio of men to women executed in the U.S. since 1976:     175:1
	Ratio of men to women currently on death row in the U.S.:   73:1