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...Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1254: "Sex and the Brain...
...unevenly enforced. During the lunch break on the first day of the Siddiqui trial a group of Muslim men praying in the waiting areas outside the courtroom were afterwards asked to leave the floor. That prevented them from securing a place in line for the afternoon session. Several Muslim women in hijabs were also given similar instructions, but others in the same area, dressed in business attire, including this reporter, were permitted to stay. On the second day of the trial metal detectors were posted outside the courtroom and individuals were asked for photo identification and their names and addresses...
...stock index. Not only that, but this dominant corporate core is nearly 80% French - a lopsided percentage, given that nearly 40% of the capital in those businesses is owned by foreign investors. And suggesting that the glass ceiling is still very much intact, the number of seats held by women on the CAC 40 boards is less than 10% of the total. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
...employers' groups, the Movement of the French Enterprises and the Association of French Private Enterprises, drew up corporate-representation guidelines in 2000 to try to diversify French boards, they were virtually ignored. Legislation was recently introduced to require companies to reserve at least 40% of their board seats for women by 2016, but critics note similar parity laws have been ineffective...
...only five Republicans in the 40-seat state senate, Brown wasn't even the best-known person in his family. His wife Gail Huff is a popular television reporter. His daughter Ayla was a semifinalist on American Idol and a four-year starter on the Boston College women's basketball team. The couple's other daughter, Arianna, is a premed freshman at Syracuse University. As picture-perfect as the Brown family looks, the Senator-elect's upbringing was anything but. His parents each married four times, and his mother was briefly on welfare. Brown was shuttled among relatives while...