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Woman can learn more about popular health and beauty products with comprehensive reviews and real time ratings. Miami, FL (PRWEB) August 08, 2011 WomensNow.com has officially launched a women's online review website where women can access and participate in reviews of popular health and beauty products. The brand new website offers comprehensive product information and real-time user reviews of the most popular health and beauty products available. WomensNow.com consists of dozens of in...
LYNCHBURG, Va., July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent quantitative study conducted by Summer's Eve®, nearly 70 percent of women are unable to identify five major parts of their female genitalia, and nearly 60 percent struggle with unresolved feelings about the word "vagina." The dilemma? If the majority of women don't know their own anatomy or feel comfortable talking about it, how can they properly care for it? To address this issue head-on, Summer's Eve, the...
University of Minnesota School of Public Health researcher Ellen Demerath, Ph.D., is among an international group of researchers that has identified 30 new genes responsible for determining the age of sexual maturation in women. Many of these genes are also known to influence body fatness, obesity, and energy metabolism. Prior to the multi-institutional study, only four genes had been identified as contributing to the process.The findings, which were reported in Nature Genetics, help to...
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amnesty International is joining with Yoko Ono and Ozzy Osbourne in shining a light on the 70th anniversary of the birth of John Lennon with a special new recording of the iconic Lennon song "How?" to be released on iTunes on Tuesday, October 5. All U.S. proceeds will benefit Amnesty International, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organization. The recording will be available worldwide as a digital download exclusively on iTunes. The...
"Love stinks!" the J. Geils band told the world in 1980, and while you can certainly argue whether or not this tender and ineffable spirit of affection has a downside, working hard to find it does. It may even shorten your life.A new study shows that ratios between males and females affect human longevity. Men who reach sexual maturity in a context in which they far outnumber women live, on average, three months less than men whose competition for a mate isn't as stiff. The steeper...
A researcher from the University of Miami and his daughter explore the role of men and women in maintaining the gender hierarchy in societyThere is a tendency to think that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a new study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our society. The study, titled "Social Dominance and Sexual Self-Schema as Moderators of Sexist Reactions to Female Subtypes,"...
Before the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law by President Kennedy, women earned about fifty percent less than men. Nationally, women still earn an average of thirty percent less than men regardless of education, choice of industry, or professional standing. Even some of the most highly educated and qualified women are subject to salary discrimination.A new study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly analyzes the salaries of faculty members at a large, American University and...
Australian researchers have linked motherhood, widowhood and other life events to exercise. The study, part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health involving more than 40,000 participants, surveyed women at three life phases -- young womanhood, middle age and older age. The younger women were ages 18-23; middle-aged women ages 45-50 and older women ages 70-75. Decreases in physical activity were associated with marriage and childbirth in young women and declining health in...
NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolfmother is back with sharpened chops, and the band will preview new material on the road this summer, including a run of shows with the Killers. The Sydney, Australia, rockers have joined on as the main support for six shows in the Northeastern U.S. and Canada, where they'll unveil the songs they've spent months recording in L.A. Tickets are now on sale for the following dates: (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090722/LA50237) Mon-Aug-31...
Sexist jokes favor mental mechanisms linked to violence and battering against women in people with macho attitudes, researchers in Spain said. University of Granada scientists applied several questionnaires to a group of 109 male university students ages 18-26. The study participants were shown two series of jokes -- one with sexist jokes in which women were denigrated and another one with neutral jokes without any kind of sexist content. The researchers then proposed several scenes with...
