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Feeling down? Try a tuna sandwich: Eating the fish found to reduce risk of depression by 25% - but only if you are a woman. Having seafood at least twice a week reduces the risk of depressionOmega-3 fatty acids may combine with female sex hormones to help brainAround five million Britons are living with depression at any one time By Mark Howarth Published: 00:38 GMT, 5 May 2014 | Updated: 00:38 GMT, 5 May 2014 The secret to happiness could lie in something as simple as a tuna sandwich or cod and chips.
Eating fish can keep the blues at bay, according to a new study – but only in women. Researchers discovered that having seafood on the menu at least twice a week reduces the risk of depression among females by 25 per cent. However, for men, fish had no protective effect. Whisper it... but NO mother wants to work. At first, Helena was too scared to admit she was a stay-at-home motherNow she sees it as a 'liberation'Believes women who are critical of those who don't work are jealous By Helena Powell Published: 21:17 GMT, 9 April 2014 | Updated: 22:32 GMT, 9 April 2014 Two years ago I suddenly found myself, for the first time in my adult life, in a position where I didn’t need to work.
Over dinner one evening my husband, Rupert, announced that he was earning enough money for me to stop working. ‘You could stay at home and look after the children,’ he said, before adding rather nervously, ‘if you want.’ Woman Travels For 14 Years With Mannequin Family To Prove She Doesn't Need To... World• Katie Gonzalez • One single woman had enough with “concerned” friends and family always asking the same question: Why aren’t you married yet?
So instead of caving into their pressure and settling for the next Joe Schmo who came along, art director Suzanne Heintz created her own family, just the way she wanted them. Over the course of 14 years (accumulating over 10,000 miles in family trips and extended vacations), Heintz lived with her family of mannequins. In a trailer describing this longtime project, Heintz reveals a number of photos she took with her “family.” In every picture, she hilariously looks like June Cleaver, and the three of them (husband and daughter, of course) always look like they’re having a hell of a lot of fun. No One's Favorite Holiday April 8 is Equal Pay Day, marking the number of extra days into 2014 the average woman has to work to earn as much as her male counterpart did in 2013.
No one who cares about economic justice and the rights of women is celebrating this occasion. Although, of course, over at Fox News, according to Media Matters: Fox News contributor Erick Erickson argued that the increase in female breadwinners defies natural order because "the male typically is the dominant role" in "the natural world. " He added that these changes showed that "we as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complimentary relationships in nuclear families, and it's tearing us apart.
" Meanwhile, back in the real world -- for full-time, year-round workers, women are paid on average only 77 percent of what men are paid; for women of color, the gap is significantly wider. In 1963, when the Equal Pay Act was passed, full-time working women were paid 59 cents on average for every dollar paid to men. If You Envision It, It Will Come. How?
Studies have shown that concentrated visualization efforts work because your subconscious mind does not like the conflict that exists between your current situation and what you’re visualizing. It will try to resolve that conflict and move toward your visualized reality. Your subconscious is like the mediator, trying to arbitrate for a way to get to what you’re seeing. Related: Become More Positive With These 5 Tips. Ban Bossy Debate Marginalizes Real Issues for Women and Work We're picking hash tag sides again.
This time it's #BanBossy versus #EmbraceBossy. Two thirds of women do the cleaning even if their husbands say they've already done it. Men guilty of cleaning avoidance tactics such as moving mess out of sightThey also just push rubbish down into a full bin rather than emptying it Four in ten women suspect it's just a ploy to avoid being asked in future By Sarah Bridge Published: 12:50 GMT, 31 March 2014 | Updated: 13:31 GMT, 31 March 2014 If you have ever found yourself having to clean the house even though your husband claims that he's already done it, then you are not alone.
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Bamboo Ceiling Is Holding Down Asia-Pacific. Credit: Marcelo Druck/mardruck on Flickr, under Creative Commons HONG KONG (WOMENSENEWS)--The Asia Pacific region's failure to keep up with Western women's business opportunities is glaring when you look at corporate boards.
And in that area, things could get worse. The European Parliament, after all, recently voted to require large, listed companies to ensure that women hold 40 percent of non-executive board seats by 2020. If the Council of Ministers endorses the directive, member states will then be expected to adapt their laws to meet these goals.
And that could easily lure away female leaders in Asia-Pacific and cause a costly talent drain in the region. Women represent around 10 percent of all board-level positions worldwide even though they make up over 40 percent of the global work force. In the Asia Pacific region, Australia is the front-runner in gender diversity, with approximately 12 percent of all board seats filled by women. Money Lost. Women on Boards. In this article Women on Boards director Claire Braund illustrates how gender diverse boards are integral to better financial performance and improved governance, align with Australia’s economic imperatives and satisfy community and shareholder expectations.
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Women Dominate Every Social Media Network. A greater percentage of adult U.S. women use Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter than their male counterparts. The one social network that boasts more men is the professional-networking site LinkedIn. How to balance life as a single parent. Plan ahead. Events - Women Going Global Seminar. Women in Global Business together with TiE Sydney invites you to the Scale Up series.