Over at Curious Capitalist, our colleague Steve Gandel explores an intriguing explanation for the persistent income gap between the genders: When it comes to competitiveness, women just don’t stack up.
Love & Relationships
Study: Does the Pill Lower Sex Drive?
It’s no secret that women who take a hormonal birth control pill have less interest in sex.
‘Love Hormone’ Oxytocin Enhances Men’s Memories of Mom — Good or Bad
Oxytocin has been called the “cuddle chemical” and the “love hormone” — the glue that bonds parents to children and lovers to each other.
5 Ways to Spend Wisely During Holiday Shopping
Black Friday kicks off a season of holiday mega-sales that doesn’t let up until after New Year’s. But while the uptick in shopping may help retailers move into the black, it puts a burden of debt on many consumers: holiday …
The Rich Are Different: More Money, Less Empathy
Looking for empathy and support? You’re more likely to get it from a poor person than you are from a rich one, according to new research published in Psychological Science.
Turning Your Phone Off as a Technological Gesture of Affection
As a senior at Parsons The New School for Design, Ingrid Zweifel was hunting around for a thesis project. She knew she wanted to explore how technology has changed the way people interact.
Do Kids of Divorce Have Strokes More Often?
Of all the odd and unexpected consequences of divorce — missing kitchen utensils, kids with two sets of everything, a weird sense of sadness yet liberation — this is a new one.
Who Needs Marriage? Men, Apparently
Men, the stereotype goes, are dragged to the altar, fingernails clawing the floor of the church aisle into splinters until the very last step. There may be some truth to that, but once the marriage is underway, the shoe seems to …
How Prince William is the Model Modern Groom
A royal wedding is a big fat, tasseled (often literally) deal. Outside of fairy tales and Disney movies, new princesses don’t come around too often. But the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton is actually a textbook …
I ♥ Boobies: ACLU Defends Girls’ Right to Wear Sassy Bracelets
I ♥ boobies. They nourish children. They define a woman’s silhouette. And sometimes, they turn toxic.
Job Equality: Stressful Work Raises Women’s Risk of Heart Disease Too
Women who work in high-strain jobs have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and bypass surgery than women whose work environments create less stress, according to a new study presented in Chicago at a conference of the American …
Is Banning Pro-Pedophilia Books the Right Answer?
On Oct. 28, a book called The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct went on sale in Amazon’s Kindle store.
Are Men the Weaker Sex After All?
Men are dying younger than their female counterparts and of eminently preventable and treatable diseases, according to the Men’s Health Forum, an organization in the U.K. that aims to improve mortality rates in men.