Over 50% of women are concerned about excess body hair says a report published by market research company Mintel last month. In the online survey of more than 2,000 women, excess hair was rated just behind weight gain for body dissatisfaction. It is also estimated that one in ten women suffers from excess facial and body hair. What causes excess body hair? Dr. Rina Davison, an endocrinologist fro…
…#8217;s rights in Saudi Arabia are still defined by Islam and lack basic freedoms found in many Western cultures. Last September, King Abdullah announced that women will be able to vote and run in the 2015 local elections but Saudi Arabia is still the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving and it took huge efforts from the International Olympic Committee to persuade them to en…
…just ahead of Bangladesh, Ghana and Papua New Guinea Figures from the UN Population Fund indicate that Uzbekistan had a maternal mortality ratio of 30 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2008 – a 44% improvement on 1990 This ratio put it level with Iran, just ahead of Albania and Malaysia (31) and just behind Armenia (29), Romania and Uruguay (27)…
tee, Leymah Gbowee had “worked to enhance the influence of women in West Africa during and after war”. Leymah Gbowee said: “I am confused. I am humbled. This is the first time in the 39 years of my life that I am out of words. “This is a victory for women rights everywhere in the world. What could be better then three women winning the prize? “This is the recognition…
Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia spoke out during an interview with BBC about the many changes she would like to see in her country. Princess Basma, 47, is the youngest daughter of former Saudi Arabia’s ruler, King Saud, and niece to its current king. The princess currently lives in Acton, West London, and is a businesswoman setting up a series of restaurant chains in…
, defying the trends seen in every other battleground and national poll.” Overall, Mitt Romney has 50% of support among likely voters in the 12 battleground states, while Barack Obama is trailing with 46% support, according to the survey. Without winning women, Barack Obama’s path to victory in November is complicated, if not impossible. The memo includes a chart of selected surveys from a h…
, defying the trends seen in every other battleground and national poll.” Overall, Mitt Romney has 50% of support among likely voters in the 12 battleground states, while Barack Obama is trailing with 46% support, according to the survey. Without winning women, Barack Obama’s path to victory in November is complicated, if not impossible. The memo includes a chart of selected surveys from a h…
According to a controversial study, the real reason women pursue careers is because they fear they are too unattractive to get married. The research team, made up of three women and two men, said that when men are thin on the ground, “women are more likely to choose briefcase over baby”. And the plainer a woman is, they claim, the more she is driven to succeed in the workplace. Central to their a…
…marrying up, and one in five women are now marrying men who are seven or more years older than them.” Official figures last week showed 52% of women aged 17-30 went into higher education compared with 42% of men. …
…udies are harder to carry out in women due to the varying effects of hormones during the menstrual cycle. “In addition, many believe men are the only ones to suffer from heart disease. “However nearly 40,000 women die of coronary heart disease each year in the UK and we do not yet know whether all the diet recommendations which we currently advise are as effective for women as for men. “The good n…
o Beauty study, British women cite Holly Willoughby’s cleavage as the curves they most covet The survey of 1,000 UK women found the average bra size is now a large D cup, edging towards a DD. However, 40% of women say they wish their boobs were bigger. In contrast, 28% wish they were smaller. One in 33 of those surveyed (3%) said they have had implants, and another 27% admitted they would consider…
A British Medical Journal analysis has found that dieting in pregnancy is safe for women and does not carry risks for the baby. The review looked at the findings from 44 previous studies involving more than 7,000 women. The London-based team said following a healthy diet – and not eating for two – prevents excess weight gain and cuts the risk of complications. But current guidelines d…
…the Office of Dietary Supplements and the Office of Research on Women’s Health. Solae LLC, based in St. Louis, provided study products without charge. A total of 350 healthy postmenopausal women, aged 45 to 92 years, were enrolled and 313 of them were included in intention-to-treat analyses. Neuropsychological tests were given to the participants at the start and at the end of the study. They rece…
s at least twice a day reduced their chances of becoming pregnant by 20%. There was no effect on the chances of pregnancy for women who preferred to drink coffee. The findings were based on a group of 3,600 women who were actively trying to have a baby. The study’s author, Professor Elizabeth Hatch, wanted to determine if caffeine intake had any effect on women trying for a baby. While there have…
ntered and sat with them. The man was asked to smile at them and engage them in friendly conversation. Unknown to the women, the man had been pre-selected for his attractiveness by a separate group of 31 women who had awarded him an average of 7.28 on a scale of 1 to 9. The man then accompanied the women down a corridor to the laboratory, where they were told the study would take place. But withou…
…ire – and in fact, does not require sexual activity at all. The study, which was published this week in the American Journal of Medicine, found that in a group of more than 800 women between age 40 and 100, those under 55 and those over 80 were most likely to declare themselves satisfied with their sex lives. And almost half of women who had not had sex in the past month said they were sexua…
…cal media. The middle-age women, believed to be from County Down, Northern Ireland, were murdered late last night in a forest, near the city of Izmir, about 75 miles from the Kusadasi resort. A 17-year-old Turkish youth, who seemed to be the boyfriend of a daughter of one of the women, has been arrested. Two women believed to be from Northern Ireland have been stabbed to death by a teenage…
Thousands of women have taken part in a march in Delhi to protest against the recent gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student. The victim died at the weekend from severe injuries she sustained during the December 16 attack in a bus. The incident has caused a national outcry. Police are expected to charge five of six suspects with murder on Thursday. If convicted, they could face the death penal…
A new study has found that when it comes to finding a mate, men may not be looking for charm and intelligence, but rather a woman who looks dumb and sleepy enough for a one-night-stand. In an article soon to be published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, University of Texas at Austin graduate student Cari Goetz and her team focused on the so-called sexual exploitability hypothesis, whi…
A new study has concluded that women may be able to better gauge their own fertility based on the age their mother went through the menopause. Women whose mothers had an early menopause had far fewer eggs in their ovaries than those whose mothers had a later menopause, a Danish team found. Women with fewer viable eggs have fewer chances to conceive. The study, of 527 women aged between 20 and 40,…
…e more women are being diagnosed with the disorder. Most scientists define a premature menopause, or premature ovarian failure (POF), as occurring when a woman’s ovaries stop working before the age of 40, though some studies include women up to the age of 45. As well as cerebral aneurysm, they are also at greater risk of heart disease – they are 50% more likely to die and 80% more likely to…
in this century,” says Dr. Mahinda Watsa, a gynaecologist who writes a popular sexual advice column in the Mumbai Mirror and Bangalore Mirror newspaper. Dr. Mahinda Watsa has answered more than 30,000 questions from Indians wanting sexual advice, and says a common question from men is how to find out whether their wife is a virgin, or from women who are keen their husband doesn’t know…
…ociety will accept this,” the official said. It is not the first time a Saudi monarch has backed a controversial reform against domestic opposition. King Faisal, who introduced television in the 1960s and was eventually assassinated, insisted on introducing education for girls. Today, Saudi women graduates outnumber their male counterparts. …
New research might help explain why black women are much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: they seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women are 40% more likely to develop cervical cancer and twice as likely to die from it. The…
some, it’s simply a case of achieving the look they think suits them best; 37% of women for example state that their hair color is the color they were born to have, not born with (a view supported by 45% of blondes). Yet, beautifying appears to be a huge self-esteem boost too, as three quarters believe that they are much more confident when they have completed their beauty regime and 61% say that…
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