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NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley has fired a stock-research analyst and three sales staffers in the Wall Street firm's institutional-stock division after they accompanied one or more clients on a visit to an adult-entertainment club, according to people familiar with the matter. The firing of the staffers, all men, sent a message that exclusionary, male-only activities won't be tolerated at the firm, according to people familiar with the matter. In mid-2004, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $54 million to settle a gender-discrimination case. As part of the settlement, Morgan Stanley denied wrongdoing but agreed to take additional steps to promote...

Golf clubs with one set of rules for men and another for women will fall foul of EU law from December 2007 onward, the European Commission has confirmed. The legal opinion issued Wednesday (4 December) implies that mixed clubs will have to put an end to male-only bars and time-limits on how long female members can play. But Irish and UK press say a loophole will allow people to run male only clubs under a "freedom of association" clause. "There might be some reactionary, neanderthal men who may form more such [single-sex] clubs, but if they do, I think they'll...

It's been one year since Baker Middle School in Columbus implemented same sex classes for it's students. Since then grades and test scores have improved. This is the second year students at Baker Middle School have taken classes with people of the same sex. "Same gender to me really gives the kids an opportunity to grow at their own level without the peer pressure of the other sex,"says Latshia Archibald a teacher at Baker Middle School. And the students seem to agree. 7th grade student, Darryl Rozier says "Most of the boys worry about the girls instead of doing their...

South Florida's first all-female public school could open as soon next fall following unanimous approval by the Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday. The Women's Leadership Academy would initially serve students in grades 6 through 10, growing to enroll up to 500 students in grades 6 through 12 by 2008. Superintendent Rudy Crew said he plans to recommend a similar school for young men, saying the schools would ``understand and respond to the need of students who . . . have extraordinary needs and extraordinary talents but are oftentimes lost in traditional schools.'' The single-gender schools would be voluntary, likely structured...

Three years ago, Jeff Gray, the principal at Foust Elementary School in Owensboro, Ky., realized that his school needed help—and fast. Test scores at Foust were the worst in the county and the students, particularly the boys, were falling far behind. So Gray took a controversial course for educators on brain development, then revamped the first- and second-grade curriculum. The biggest change: he divided the classes by gender.

Classes for Saudis separated By Kevin Miller 381-1676 Gender-specific classes are given at Tech this summer for people from Saudi Arabia. BLACKSBURG - About 60 faculty members from a Saudi Arabian university are taking courses on Virginia Tech's campus this summer. But the program's setup is a bit different than a typical Tech class. Men and women from King Abdulaziz University are taking identical faculty development courses at Tech, but meet in gender-specific classes. Tech officials said administrators from the Saudi university separated the sexes to mirror classroom settings at their home institution, which operates separate campuses for men and...

Your 8-year-old son who has trouble reading or little interest in picking up a book could benefit from the Larry Summers controversy. That's because from out of the ashes of the Harvard conflagration is rising a nugget of something valuable. The Harvard president, as everyone now knows, speculated at a seminar that men might be overrepresented for genetic reasons in the top jobs in science and engineering at universities. While Summers surely would now retract his comments, if nothing else, he struck a blow against the dreary orthodoxy of gender sameness.

NEW YORK — A decision by Wells College (search), which has been all-women since 1868, to begin admitting male students in order to boost enrollment has riled female students. Many students are threatening to leave the upstate New York college, but two have moved beyond threats and filed a lawsuit that says the decision to enroll men constitutes a breach of contract and fraud.

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) - Claiming they were deceived about attending a women's school, two Wells College students are suing to prevent the school from admitting men until after this year's freshman class graduates. The suit was filed on behalf of freshman Lauren Searle-Lebel of Arcata, Calif., and sophomore Jennifer LaBarbera of Fredonia. The students seek preliminary and permanent injunctions to stop the school, founded in 1868 as a woman's liberal arts college, from admitting men before fall 2008. The suit also seeks undetermined punitive damages and "any other such further relief as the court deems just and proper." ........... The...

For a second night Sunday, about 170 Wells College students planned to sleep in the lobby of the administration building or in the 15 tents set up on the lawn outside. They plan to protest the college trustees' decision Saturday to admit male students in 2005 to the all-women's college in this Finger Lakes village until the board reverses its decision, said sophomore Rachel Crosbie. "The school can't really function with over half the student body not going to classes and sleeping out in the hallways," she said. College President Lisa Marsh Ryerson said she met with students Saturday evening...

AURORA, N.Y. -- More than a third of Wells College's all-female student body protested trustees' decision admit male students Sunday, sleeping in the lobby of the administration building or in the 15 tents set up on the lawn outside. About 170 students protested for a second day after Saturday's decision to admit men to the 400-student school beginning next year. Students in this Finger Lakes village will continue to protest until the board reverses its decision, said sophomore Rachel Crosbie. Opponents say they want to preserve the college's 136-year tradition as a school for women, and worry men may dominate...

KRISTIELLE Pedraza has chosen books over boys - she’s so busy with the former she has no time for the latter. Boys are for losers. Winners read books.The 13-year-old is adamant that she will not miss the boys while she attends the Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Dallas’ first all-girl public school and one of a growing number of such schools nationally. "Usually it’s the guys that distract the whole class. They’re usually the class clowns," says Kristielle, who began the new school year last week. "With no guys in the school, I can know we will really get...

DALLAS - For an increasing number of public schools, the formula for a better education requires a little arithmetic: divide the girls from the boys. That's just fine with Kristielle Pedraza, a 13-year-old who says she will not miss the boys while she attends the Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School, Dallas' first all-girls public school and one of a growing number of such schools nationally. "Usually it's the guys that distract all the whole class. They're usually the class clowns," said Kristielle, who entered the seventh grade last week. "With no guys in the school, I can know we...

Improvements seen after middle school goes to single-sex classes ODENVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- At first, eighth-grader Brandon Music didn't like being in boys-only classes at Odenville Middle School. An improvement in his grades changed his mind. "I pay attention a lot more in class," the 14-year-old said. "Don't talk as much as I used to." Principal Debra Carroll decided to put boys and girls in separate classes after seeing an increase in behavioral problems during the first half of the school year. "Just lots and lots of real ugly, sexually explicit notes," Carroll said. "If they were writing that...

WILL male-specific teaching scholarships improve the standard of education for Australian boys? As a long-time primary school teacher and researcher of the subject, I believe the answer is yes - although I recognise that the Howard Government's proposal to change sex discrimination laws is only the start of a long campaign. Still, a strong case can be made that male teachers do make a difference in the classroom (and playground and sporting field), and they can reach out to boys in a way that women teachers can't. First, boys grow up with female classmates and teachers around them. They have...

<p>The administration yesterday announced a major change in federal sex-discrimination rules that would give communities more freedom to offer same-sex schools and classes.</p> <p>In the first major change in the 30-year-old federal Title IX regulations banning sex discrimination, Education Secretary Rod Paige said states and schools would have "maximum flexibility to ... provide the best education possible for their students."</p>

WASHINGTON - Federal officials plan to significantly loosen their restrictions on same-sex public education, giving schools the most freedom they've had to teach boys and girls separately in almost 30 years. In changing its enforcement of Title IX, the landmark law that prohibited sex-based discrimination in schools, the Education Department says it will expand choices for parents without eroding equal opportunity. The regulations announced Wednesday reflect a push by both the Bush administration and female senators of both parties to give schools flexibility. "We're not suggesting that any particular kid ought to be in a single-sex setting," said a department...

Holy Cross to Admit Girls in 2005 LAST UPDATE: 1/13/2004 8:14:49 AM Posted By: Jim Forsyth After 48 years as an all-boy institution, San Antonio's Holy Cross High School is going co-ed. The west side landmark will admit girls in the fall of 2005, and will be 'fully co-educational' by 2009, according to the school's long time President, Brother Stanley Culotta. "It's a sign of changing trends in education," Culotta said. "There were some companion girls schools on the city's west and south sides, but these schools have closed." He says boys and girls are no longer as interested...

<p>NEW YORK — Convinced that the mandatory policy of female-only leadership is no longer sound, some of the YWCA's most vibrant affiliates are taking steps to admit men as members and directors — a challenge that could either transform or fracture the 145-year-old organization.</p>