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Women Sue F.B.I., Claiming Discrimination at Training Academy

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Women who were once F.B.I. recruits sued the bureau on Wednesday, accusing it of running a “good-old-boy network” at its training academy that discriminates against women, in some cases because of race and disabilities in addition to gender, and sets them up to fail. Male instructors at the academy in Quantico, Va., exposed the women beginning in 2015 to a hostile work environment, sexual harassment and inappropriate jokes, according to the lawsuit. One woman said that an instructor referred to an African-American female trainee as “spaghetti head,” a reference to her braids. The woma

Ridiculous: Woman upset after London airport forces her to dump breast milk – all 15 litres of it

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Aviation officials at London's Heathrow Airport forced a nursing mother to dump nearly four gallons (nearly 15 litres) of breast milk, including a sizable amount that was frozen, the woman says. But Jessica Coakley Martinez didn't just cry over it. She penned an outraged open letter on Facebook that has resonated with working mothers everywhere. "I normally would not post something this personal, but I do not remember the last time I felt so justly upset," she writes. In her posting, she documents the travails of breastfeeding while holding down a job that requires her to be away from

Hackers Are Sneaking Into Women’s Webcams and Posting the Footage on YouTube

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Here’s more evidence that you’re not a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist if you cover your webcam with a post-it note. According to a new report by digital rights group Digital Citizens Alliance, hackers are hijacking the webcams of women and girls and uploading the intimate footage to YouTube for profit. The report, which was released at the Black Hat conference, describes how hackers known as “ratters” use a special kind of malware called a remote access trojan, or RAT, to gain access to a victim’s computer and control their webcams. Trojans account for 70 percent of al

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