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Younger Husband Shortens Wife's Life

Nick McMaster — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:08:10 CDT

Having a young husband can reduce a woman's life expectancy, a new study says. Marriage stats have long shown that men with younger wives tend to live longer. Researchers had assumed the same held true for women—but a study of 2 million Danish couples showed otherwise, Science Daily reports....

Help! There's a New Bitch in My Kitchen

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:07:51 CST

Over the past 40 years, the amount of time men spend in the kitchen has tripled—and they have turned the once-womanly art of home cooking into a competitive playing field. On TV, “it’s hard to keep up with the itinerant rage-aholics cycling through the Food Network,” writes Hanna Rosin...

Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool

Harry Kimball — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:55:23 CDT

Sara Mosle “came of age betwixt and between,” she writes on DoubleX—after feminism had freed women from the need to learn “traditional female skills” but before “they had begun to make real inroads into traditional male pastimes and professions.” So that left her with an English major and a...

Puppy Love Fuels Twilight Author

Harry Kimball — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:51:06 CST

Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight books, is not a shadowy vampire, Vogue reports. In fact, she is a shy, retiring Mormon mother of 3 living in a Phoenix suburb. Sure, the characters for the hit books came from a dream, but the substance is straight puppy love. “I...

To Work Or Not to Work?

Colleen Barry — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:34:15 CDT

The feminist generation gap gets a sharp appraisal in "The Feminine Mistake," the new book by Leslie Bennetts that questions why so many upscale young women are abandoning careers for children. Joan Walsh finds it a refreshing rebuttal to recent paens to motherhood, especially since Bennetts recognizes that status seeking...