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Golden Years Shine Brighter For Men
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Why are women facing difficulties when it comes to going it alone in retirement? One main reason the report found was a lack of education women are offered on the subject. More than half of the respondents said they don't have any kind of retirement strategy planned while 60 percent say they can only guess at how much they will need for retirement.
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Young Women Come Out Ahead
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The city with the largest margin was Atlanta, Georgia where young women earned 21 percent more than men. And in at a close second was Memphis, Tennessee where young single women were ahead of their male counterparts by 19 percent.
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Pushed Into Pregnancy
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The women who were asked about this type of abuse in the family planning clinics saw a 70 percent drop in the rate of subsequent pregnancies involving reproductive coercion. Just being asked the question seemed enough for a lot of the women to wake up and take a stand. In the clinics where women were asked these questions, 60 percent of them left their relationships afterward because "it felt unsafe."
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The Organic Option: Is It Worth The Cost?
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Many were shocked to read results from a 2009 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that found little difference in vitamin content of organic food and the non-organic goods. This was surprising to many food purists who believed using chemical fertilizers depletes the nutritional value of food.
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Anonymous Fathers
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Wendy Kramer, who conceived a son through artificial insemination and founded the Donor Sibling Registry, believes the way sperm banks are currently run is dangerous. Kramer says, "There are no rules or regulations about donor identification, testing donors, monitoring numbers of children, or medical records. They recruit young college kids with no education and no counseling for the donors.'
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Drum Roll Please: Propel Blogger Challenge Winners!
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The time has finally come to announce the winners of our Propel Blogger Challenge!
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Cougars: Fact of Fiction?
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Dunn believes the cougar craze has become popular from all of the media attention shows like "Cougar Town" and celebrities like Madonna and Demi Moore have gotten in recent years for dating younger men. But just because a handful of celebrities are doing it does not mean women are rushing out to find younger men. Dunn says, "I do believe the cougar phenomenon is a myth and, yes, a media construct."
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Men Step Out On Successful Women
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So, why would these guys step out on their successful wives? Conductor of the study, Christin Munsch, believes it may have something to do with men having insecurities about not fitting into the idea of what a man should be. Munsch says, "Having multiple sexual partners may be an attempt to restore gender identity in response to these threats."
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Why It Can Hurt To Be A Woman
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Though researchers are unsure exactly why women have more recurrent pain and disabilities from pain, one theory has a lot to do with hormones. Jennifer Kelly, from the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Medicine in Georgia, discusses this theory and how the menstrual cycle often has a lot to do with discomfort for women who suffer from recurrent pains.
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Facebook Crooks
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PleaseRobMe was created as a way to draw attention to the subject and show the public just how easy it would be for house thieves to find out when someone will be away on vacation by simply reading a status that might say something like, "Can't wait to leave for our two-week-long vacation this Friday!" and rob their house.
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