…#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…
Aug 12 2012 | Posted in
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…put it just behind Laos, Madagascar and Bolivia, and 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 Urugua…
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…
…e simply in the case of <<irreconcilable differences>>.” Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia spoke out about the many changes she would like to see in her country 3. Overhaul of the education system “The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school. The content of the syllabus i…
ersuasion than men. This makes female voters, particularly the blue-collar “waitress moms” whose families have been hard-hit by the recession and unemployment, the most-prized group of swing voters in 2012. Celinda Lake, a veteran Democratic pollster, told USA Today: “In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since the Denver debate. “Women went into the…
ersuasion than men. This makes female voters, particularly the blue-collar “waitress moms” whose families have been hard-hit by the recession and unemployment, the most-prized group of swing voters in 2012. Celinda Lake, a veteran Democratic pollster, told USA Today: “In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since the Denver debate. “Women went into the…
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…
…ficial guidelines recommend its consumption at least once a week. In the study around 60 people, half men and women, were given test drinks containing either saturated fats or a combination with omega 3 fish oils, equivalent to a 200 g portion of oily fish. Imaging was used to check the reaction of the blood cells to the different drinks, says a report in the Journal of Lipid Research. Prof. Chris…
Oct 13 2012 | Posted in
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According to an Ultimo Beauty study, British women are happiest with their breasts at the age of 26 – and cite Holly Willoughby’s cleavage as the curves they most covet. The research found women ideally want a D or DD cup – which explains why the shapely This Morning presenter, who boasts a 34DD chest, has the country’s most envied breasts. Half of the nation’s women would gladly pay…
Nov 13 2012 | Posted in
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…and cuts the risk of complications. But current guidelines do not advocate dieting or weight monitoring. The advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), published in 2010, says: “Dieting during pregnancy is not recommended as it may harm the health of the unborn child.” However, women are advised to aim to reach a healthy weight before conceiving. Hal…
May 18 2012 | Posted in
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…r Mike Tindall Of the women born between 1976 and 1981, only 16% married up and more than half (56%) married someone of the same class, defined by the IPPR as someone in a similar occupation. In 1958, 39% married someone of the same class and 38% married up. The research also showed that while attitudes towards marrying across social class have changed, those towards age have become more entrenche…
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…
…omplementary and Alternative Medicine, 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…
Jun 5 2012 | Posted in
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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…
Jan 22 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » …211; 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 sexually sat…
ned by 8.6%, 6.8% and 4.2% a year in the groups of women with mothers who had early, normal or late menopauses, respectively. A similar pattern was seen for AFC, with annual declines of 5.8%, 4.7% and 3.2% in the same groups, respectively. Past research suggests there is about 20 years between a woman’s fertility starting to decline and the onset of menopause. So a woman who enters the menop…
Nov 7 2012 | Posted in
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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…
U.S. doctors have discovered that women who go through a premature menopause are more likely to suffer a potentially fatal brain haemorrhage or a cerebral aneurysm. This occurs when part of the artery weakens and swells. The artery can then burst and cause a stroke or death, with half of those suffering a cerebral aneurysm likely to die. The new U.S. research is part of a growing body of evidence…
Jun 19 2012 | Posted in
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…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…
…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. …
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…
Aug 28 2012 | Posted in
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…y common in young women. They usually go away on their own within a year or so and only pose a cancer risk when they last long-term. Researchers at the University of South Carolina in Columbia studied 326 white and 113 black students taking part in a wider federal health study. All were given Pap tests – lab exams of cells scraped from the cervix – and HPV tests every six months throug…
…“But our lizard brains go after these things even when we think we’re too smart to be lured in by manipulative advertising claims like, <,these jeans will help get you a man>>.” For the study 154 university students including 82 women and 72 men were presented with fictitious articles highlighting the recession. The participants were then asked if the content caused them to think there we…
omen’s motivations for all this hard work, pointing to the fact that women want to look good to feel good for themselves. For 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 t…
Oct 25 2012 | Posted in
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