Egypt is a country where smoking is cheap and often described as a "national habit". An Egyptian government crackdown on shisha, the popular flavored tobacco-filled water pipe, is facing resistance all...
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What do you do when you finally locate your long lost dad and find he's a woman? Well that's just what happened to Emily Wallis and she couldn't be happier. Although shocked to discover her father is called...
Parliamentarians the media and invited guests attended a special celebration at Australia's Parliament House yesterday as part of world-wide activities for International Men's Day.International Men's Day began on...
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"A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people." Is this a sign of the patriarchy hard at work? Or is it evidence of the age-old practice of ritually humiliating 'wayward...
By, Uwe Paschen. Tokyo is one of the greatest cities on this planet with some of the best museums, parks and attraction one can imagine, it also has one of the World best universities; an impressive...
opinion by Paschen | 8 wks ago | updated 8 hrs ago 1478 views | 129 recommendations | 47 comments
"Women are paid less than half as much as men in some parts of the UK, according to statistics published today that reveal huge regional variations in the pay gap between male and female workers." Some recent reading had led me to believe that this was a situation that was...
"The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts. These pairings are more likely to go the distance, particularly if neither has been divorced in the past, according to the Bath University team....
"A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who...
"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 of Labor Statistics show. Over the past two years, the wages...
"More than 30,000 single mothers have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army, the most heavily deployed branch of the military, gives women just four months to stay stateside with their newborns before deploying to the war zone, leaving them little time to bond with or...
Results of a recent study suggest that the birth control pill may alter the type of men women seek for in a partner. Published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, the research article titled "Does the Contraceptive Pill Alter Mate Choice In Humans" focuses on secondary...
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Just a five minute talk with a pretty woman raises a man's testosterone levels by 14 percent, making him feel better and more alert. A new study shows that chatting with women raises the levels of the hormones...
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"The BBC is actively seeking an older female newsreader, as it seeks to counter accusations of ageism. Director general Mark Thompson asked news director Helen Boaden to find the presenter, although reports of a recruitment deadline have been denied."I was so sad to hear of...
"Fathers will be able to take six months' paternity leave, the government has announced. The move will allow mothers to decide to return to work after six months and fathers to stay at home for the rest of the 12 months off allowed by law. "Good, and not before time. I...
"Female managers are 137 percent more likely to experience sexual harassment than their rank-and-file counterparts, according to a recently released study.Even Heather McLaughlin, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota and the primary investigator on the study, was...