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Who Needs Marriage?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Marriage, Widowhood, Divorce, Gender Inequality, Health, Men and Women, Differences Between Men and Women, Happiness, Gender, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.

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Men, Women, and Balance

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Gender Stereotypes, Relationships, Women's Health, Ceos, Careers, Balance, Power, Family, Gender, The Balanced Life, Living News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

A study I performed on successful CEOs of private equity funded ventures found that their wives played pivotal roles in their success as executives and in their sense of balance.

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The State Of The American Woman

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Gender Equality, Women's Rights, American Women, Feminism, Happiness, Gender, Living News
Therese Borchard

Women are much more powerful than they were forty years ago. But they are stressed, anxious, and not as happy. Why?

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A Women's Nation Changes Everything: Or Does It?

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Working Women, Role-Reversal, Housework, Insurance, Divorce, A Women's Nation, Working Mothers, The Shriver Report, Gender Parity, Gender, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

More than half of the women in a recent survey said they take on significantly more responsibility for house and family, but only 28 percent of men saw it that way.

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Caster Semenya: When Gender Is Not Sex

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Herculine Barbin, Sports, Sex Identity, Michel Foucault, Intersex, Hermaphrodite, Cultural Evolution, Kaate Bornstein, Feminine, Caster Semenya, Masculine, Culture, Gender, Living News
Elizabeth Debold

It seems pretty likely that Semenya is no longer going to be allowed to compete as a female in the sport that she loves and has trained so hard for.

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Half The Sky: Fighting Gender Violence

The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Kristof Half the Sky, Women, Sexual Violence, Rape, Violence Against Women, Books, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Child Brides, Gender, Half the Sky, Child Rape, Gender Inequality, Kristof, Sheryl WuDonn, Nicholas Kristof, Child Prostitution, Save the Children, Books News

Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...

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Sex And The Illusion Of Physical Form

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Skin, Homosexuality, Illusion, Physical Form, Sex, Water, Prejudice, Srini Pillay Srinivasan Pillay, Love, Gender, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

"Maya" is a Sanskrit term that refers to the "illusion" of physical and mental forms. If the physical form is in fact an illusion, who are you having sex with?

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Gillian Flynn on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mark Bazer, Thriller, Hideout, Chicago, Farm, Gender, Sharp Objects, Stephen King, Dark Places, Gillian Flynn, Mysteries, Kansas, Chicago News
Mark Bazer

Novelist Gillian Flynn ("Dark Places," "Sharp Objects") appeared on The Interview Show, to discuss her work, devil worship, and watching porn at slumber parties as a kid.

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Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Workforce, Social Security, Singled Out, Pay, Divorce, Children, Matrimania, A Woman’s Nation, Gloria Steinem, Nonfamily Households, Media, Childless Women, Business, Ideology, Consciousness-Raising, Friendship, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Politics, Compulsory Mothering, Singlism, Discrimination, Breadwinners, Health Care, Couples, Family, Women’s Media Center, Taxes, Connection, Single-Person Households, Wives, Compulsory Marriage, Money, Women’s Movement, Suze Orman, Shriver Report, Singles, Maria Shriver, Time Magazine, Mothers, Gender, Education, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Workplace, Unmarried America, John Podesta, Adrienne Rich, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

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A Follow Up: "Hank Moody: For Women Only" (Question)

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Poll, Gender, Cable Television, Media News, Gender Issues, Mad Men, Women, Dating, Relationships, Survey, Don Draper, Cable, Women's Issues, Cable Tv, Hank Moody, Californication, Entertainment News
Reese Schonfeld

Despite at times being self-centered, lewd and at times irresponsible, would you date and/or marry Hank Moody?

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Women at Work: Insights From Women on the Front Lines of Polish Design

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Furniture, Design, Lighting, Women in Business, Innovation, Gender, Culture, Polish Design, Emerging Economies, Communism, Design Fairs, Eastern Europe, Style, Poland, Eastern-Bloc, Designer-Maker, New Business, Female, Gallery, Soviet Union, Entepreneurship, Style News
Chauncey Zalkin

Design is about people -- the handiwork of the creator, human ingenuity, and the social ramifications of design in use.

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No Slacks In The Office: Gail Collins And Lesley Stahl Relive the Birth of Feminism

wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Relationships, Gender Inequality, Lesley Stahl, Power, Feminism, Gail Collins, Inequality, Gender, Living News

With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...

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Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Olive Kitteridge, Writers, Books, Herta Mueller, Female Writers, Wolf Hall, Fiction Prizes, Gender, Authors, Gender Equality, Sexism, Hilary Mantel, Women Writers, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Literature Prizes, Books News

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

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Don Draper: For Women Only, Please Respond

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Mad Men, Women, Cable, Women's Issues, Sexism, Cable Television, Gender Issues, Survey, Cable Tv, Tufts, Poll, Don Draper, Culture Change, Gender, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...

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Women: We Are Still The Out Crowd

Leslie Grossman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Career Women, Gender Inequality, Sex, Careers, Discrimination, Power, Exlusion, Leslie Grossman, Gender, Living News
Leslie Grossman

Recent headlines remind me again that things are far from equal in the power suites of America. What's worse is so many men are not even aware of what they say or what they do publicly to exclude women.

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Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Pay, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economy, Wages, Jobless, Jobs, Laid Off, Recession, Gender, Layoffs, Gender Equality, Unemployment, Inflation, Work, Salary, Business News

The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

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2010 Vancouver Olympic Games: An Opportunity to Change the World

Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Clinton Global Initiative, Violence Against Women, Microfinance, Vancouver, Olympics, United Nations, Gender, Vancouver Olympics, Canada, World News
Rahim Kanani

Canada is a model for the world on immigration, diversity and pluralism. Now is the time to reignite Canada's commitment to gender equality and the advancement of women's rights internationally.

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Want Less Risk? Hire More Women!

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Earnings, Fed, Women, Pay, Testosterone, Risk Aversion, Banking, Federal Reserve, Compensation, Occupational Sex Segregation, Gender, Risk, Gender Inequalities, Women in Finance, Women CEOs, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

The higher the amount of testosterone, the more willing people are to take risks. Women, with considerably less of the male hormone coursing through their bodies, are more risk averse.

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We Are All Polanski's Victims, and We All Deserve Justice

Jaclyn Friedman | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rape, Crime, Washington Post, Department of Justice, Justice, Batman, Roman Polanski, Whoopi Goldberg, Gender, Entertainment News
Jaclyn Friedman

In the confused minds of many, Polanski is a real-life Batman, a flawed anti-hero living outside the law because that's the only way he can truly overcome his tortured history.

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The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out Countdown #2: SAT Prep, The Good, The Bad, And The Goofy

Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: College Tuition, Sat Prep, Sudoku, College Admissions, Gender, The College Insider, The Balanced Life, Karen Stabiner, Living News
Karen Stabiner

Test-taking strategies: If there's a consensus on anything, it's that your child doesn't want to spend valuable time reading the instructions for the first time on the day of the test. Before you pay for sample tests in a room at a prep center, or proctored by a tutor, consider a few free sample tests at home.

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Women, Men, and Happiness: We're All in Transition

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Joan Williams, Marcus Buckingham, Happiness, Women, Gender Roles, Workplace, Employment, Feminism, Gender, Living News
Morra Aarons-Mele

The huge societal shift brought about by women's move into the workforce has only begun to play out, and its consequences are truly complex. So when telling this story, we should be careful not to isolate our focus to just women.

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Live On Stage: Moms Tell All

Heather Cabot | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Theatre, The Well Mom, Heather Cabot, Moms, Mom-Bloggers, Drug Addiction, Women, Twitter, Children, Family Care International, Theater, Motherhood, Facebook, Babies, Gender, Living News
Heather Cabot

Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.

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Yin/Yang: An Intersexed South African Runner As Symbol Of The Universal

Suzie Heumann | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Caster Semenya, Shiva, Suzie Heumann, Personal Growth, Gender, Transgendered, Tantra, Intersexed, Yin/Yang, Shakti, Living News
Suzie Heumann

In some cultures, over the millennia, inter-sexed people have even been revered as shamans and holy people - they are closer to the ideal of a balanced, universal soul. Think of the Yin/Yang symbol. We all know it. It means 'balance' - male/female balance.

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Caster Semenya Gender Test: Outrage, Worry In South Africa Over Report

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Pretoria, Caster Semenya, Sports, Iaaf, South Africa, Testes, Gender, Hermaphrodite, Man, Female, Track and Field, Male, Woman, Castor Semenya, Castor, Caster Semenya Gender Hermaphrodite, World News

PRETORIA, South Africa — Caster Semenya had heard the taunts and whispers – that she was different from other girls. Now the most intimate...

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Caster Semenya HERMAPHRODITE?: Tests Reveal South African Sprinter Has Both Male, Female Characteristics: REPORT

New York Daily News | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Semanya, Sexual Organs, Ovaries, Caster, Testes, Sprinter, Man or Woman, Gender, Is Caster Semenya a Hermaphrodite, Sports, South Africa, Track, Reproductive Organs, Track and Field, Male or Female, Caster Semenya, Tests, Iaaf, Semenya Hermaphrodite, Caster Semenya XXY, South African Hermaphrodite, Castor Hermaphrodite, Hermaphrodite, Caster Semenya Gender, Hermaphrodite Runner, Caster Semenya's Sex, Caster Semenya Hermaphrodite, South African Female Runner, South African Runner, World News

Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man! The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries and her testo...

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