Women

A Startling Reminder of Gender Bias

Tim Berry | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology


Tim Berry

On the Internet, the world of George Eliot and George Sand, women novelists with men's pen names, is still around.

The Nobel Prize for Balance

Rosalyn Hoffman | Posted 12.15.2009 | Style


Rosalyn Hoffman

Being on a budget isn't about chaste saving. It's all about impulse control and editing. Skipping the last minute mediocre dinners out in order to save for a fabulous feast.

Twenty-Something Men Want Babies, Study Says

Laura Stepp | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living


Laura Stepp

In a nationally representative survey of 18-29-year-olds, men were as likely as women to say that if circumstances allowed it, they would love to have a baby right now. We're not talking small numbers here.

VA Treating More Women, Younger Patients, 'Not The Old Guys Group Anymore'

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.15.2009 | Home


MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in this quiet, bucolic town tucked between coal country and the nation's cap...

When Menstruation Means Inequality

Halle Tecco | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living


Halle Tecco

For millions of women in the developing world, menstruation is a nightmare. With a dearth of feminine product options, women turn to rags, mud, and even tree bark to physically conceal the situation.

Time To Make U.S. Foreign Assistance Work -- for Women and Men

Ritu Sharma | Posted 12.14.2009 | World


Ritu Sharma

Despite so much hard work, Betilde remains one of the billion people in the world struggling to survive on less than a dollar a day. The majority of the bottom billion, about 829 million, are women.

Watching a Good Friend Make Bad Decisions

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.13.2009 | Living


Dr. Irene S. Levine

My friend broke up with her first serious boyfriend about a year ago. She still spends most of her time with him and his family but they all take advantage of her. Is there something that can help her see what's going on?

Women Dominate Short Story Writing

The Guardian | Sarah Crown | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books


Given that 2009 looks set to live in literary memory as the year that brought us Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Jordan: "Pushed to the Limit" and "Pri...

Obama Can Help the World's Women

Rahim Kanani | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics


Rahim Kanani

In accepting the Nobel, Obama must spearhead a bold and unprecedented initiative aimed at one of the most pervasive human rights violations of the 21st century: violence against women and girls worldwide.

From Girls to Women: Struggling with the Dilemma of Naughty or Nice

Stacey Radin | Posted 12.11.2009 | Living


Stacey Radin

Girls and women are repeatedly told that they have so many opportunities that did not exist decades ago. Girls can now engage in competitive sports, run their own companies, and aspire to be a CEO.

Birth Control, Water, And Women

Susan Kim | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living


Susan Kim

Thanks in large part to a decade of nearly nonexistent enforcement, tens of millions of men, women and children now routinely drink, bathe in and cook with tap water laced with illegal levels of contaminants.

Stupak-Pitts Vs. Bubble Boy

Leslie Goldman | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics


Leslie Goldman

More than one in every three women will have had an abortion by the age 45. If the Stupak amendment becomes law, it one day may not even be our choice to pay for an abortion with our own insurance.

Love, loss and friendship: Getting over the death of a child

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living


Dr. Irene S. Levine

There is no pain greater than the loss of a child. Parents who have suffered such a tragedy say that they never get over it; at best, they get through...

Saying Yes to Love Again, or Just Getting Your Flirt On

Michelle Renee | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living


Michelle Renee

I hadn't been grabbed around the waist and kissed like that in so long I could hardly remember what warm sensual lips felt like on mine. I loved every second of it, but still something inside of me rang.

If Health Care Fails, They'll Blame Women

Amy Siskind | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics


Amy Siskind

To all of you who assume that the Democrats are the savior of women's rights or even of the right to choice, think again.

ACS Chief Sends Mixed Messages On Mammography

John McDougall, M.D. | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living


John McDougall, M.D.

Dr. Otis Brawley of the ACS voiced strong support for annual mammography for women 40 and above in an Op-Ed piece published November 20, 2009 -- a position that contradicts previous statements.

The Heart of the Health Care Debate on Abortion

Ellen Malcolm | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics


Ellen Malcolm

This historic health care plan designed to improve Americans' lives and make them healthier and safer could, for women facing an unintended or dangerous pregnancy, deny them access to the care they need.

Breast-Feeding May Protect Moms' Health

usatoday.com | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living


Breast-feeding may offer mothers long-term protection against a condition linked to diabetes and heart disease, researchers report today....

FACE IT: Experience Is Back

Michele Willens | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living


Michele Willens

I was at a friend's 60th birthday party recently and noticed that, far from impaling herself with the cake knife, she was beaming. She hasn't looked this fit in years, and is writing her second book.

Response To Danger May Differ According To Sex

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living


Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive...

Obama's Global AIDS Grade: D+

Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics


Matthew Kavanagh

Given the enormity of the impact the AIDS pandemic is having in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, bringing a conference to DC seems among the most superficial announcements I could imagine out of the White House this year.

Working Women Paid $1.2M Less Than Men Over Lifetime

Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact


Think the glass ceiling for working women in the U.S. is a thing of the past? Not according to some recent statistics by Mother Jones. If you are shoc...

When Women Hate Their Bodies Men Suffer Too

Susan Harrow | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living


Susan Harrow

When you start to change the internal dialog the external reality changes and a new, more positive shift in experience happens.

Women With AIDS In NYC: Killing Them Softly

Chris Norwood | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York


Chris Norwood

Why, after a decade of decreasing deaths, has New York's progress in reducing women's mortality stumbled so badly? Following the money gives a dismaying answer: the Bloomberg administration.

Men Married To Smart Women Live Longer

Times Online | Shane Watson | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living


Swedish scientists have discovered that long life and good health have nothing to do with a man's education and everything to do with his wife's. Men ...