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Feminists Abuse Domestic Violence Laws

Tuesday 27 November 2007 @ 7:55 pm

Radical feminists have devised a scheme to cash in on the flow of taxpayer money in a big way. Their good buddy, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., has just introduced Senate Bill 2279, called the International Violence Against Women Act.




Do coffee shops discriminate against women?

Saturday 10 November 2007 @ 12:07 pm

“Over time, we’ve moved from gentlemen’s clubs to male-dominated pubs to coffee shops, which are far more female-friendly. Perhaps it is just a matter of time before some entrepreneur decides to set up a big chain of coffee shops with “no men allowed” on the door.”




Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Thursday 8 November 2007 @ 3:23 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - They may be a small minority in corporate boardrooms, but women directors typically earn more than men, a new U.S. study has found.




What men talk about

Monday 29 October 2007 @ 10:42 am

The biggest complaint I hear from wives these days is that their husbands don’t speak to them. They don’t share their emotions, they don’t let them into their hearts. Marriages that suffer from a lack of intimate communication, focusing on the practical at the expense of the emotional, are destined to corrode. Even if they survive, they will leave both partners lonely. Here then, are the 10 reasons why husbands don’t open up to their wives.




The crying game: male vs female tears

Thursday 25 October 2007 @ 1:50 pm

NEW YORK - “Please, please, please, just give the dog back,” Ellen DeGeneres wept on national TV last week. It was a moment that quickly established itself in the pop culture firmament, less for the plight of Iggy the adopted terrier than for the copious crying itself.




Judge Blasts Parents for Using Court to Attack, Demean Each Other

Thursday 25 October 2007 @ 12:21 pm

A New York Family Court judge has issued an unusually blunt rebuke to two parents — one a former doctor and the other a lawyer — engaged in a “vitriolic and venomous” dispute over child custody and visitation.




Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Family-Unfriendly Policies

Monday 15 October 2007 @ 10:56 am

You will hear a lot about the American family in the election campaign. For most of us, that calls up an image of a man and wife and two or three children. Forget it. Predominant as the social pattern for several hundred years, that American family has lost its place. Households of unmarried couples and households without children outnumber “American family” households. And only about 20 percent of families fit into the traditional structure with father as the only breadwinner.




Putting Money on the Table: Woman on Top of the “Pay Gap”

Sunday 30 September 2007 @ 5:48 pm

For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities — New York, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis — are earning higher wages than men in the same age range, according to a recent analysis of 2005 census data by Andrew Beveridge, a sociology professor at Queens College in New York.




Study: Women earning more than men in major US cities

Sunday 30 September 2007 @ 5:46 pm

Dr Andrew Beveridge, of New York’s Queens College, analyzed US census data from 2005 - and found that women between the ages of 21 and 30 living in certain large urban areas were taking home bigger pay checks than their male colleagues.




Men with deep voices may be more fertile, study finds

Wednesday 26 September 2007 @ 2:15 pm

The study, published online this week in the journal Biology Letters, examined the reproductive patterns of the Hadza, a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer tribe that lives much the same way that human beings did 200,000 years ago.




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