The difference between a man’s paycheck and a woman’s paycheck may have something to do with where people live.
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Narrow the Gapp challenges app developers to narrow the pay gap
Unequal pay isn’t just unfair, it’s illegal.
After President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act nearly 50 years ago, on average women are still paid less than their male counterparts for doing comparable jobs in the U.S. — that’s called the pay gap. It means that each time the average woman starts a new job, she’s likely to start from a lower base salary than her male counterparts.
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Women are happier in relationships when empathetic partner feels their pain
Relationship satisfaction was directly related to men’s ability to read their female partner’s positive emotions correctly.
According to a new study published by the American Psychological Association, men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset
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Smoking makes men stupid: study
A new study has found that smoking is bad for the brain, especially men.
Here’s the perfect reason for men to kick the butt – smoking makes men stupid, according to researchers.
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Women have far less accurate memories than men when it comes to unpleasant events
Researchers monitored people’s brain waves with an EEG while they looked at pictures ranging from war photos to pictures of kittens.
Women remember unpleasant events far less accurately than men do, say researchers at the University of Montreal.
Study: women feel pain more than men
Women reported feeling more pain in 39 of 47 health problems examined by researchers.
While it is sometimes said men can’t take pain as well as women, because they don’t go through childbirth, researchers found that not to be the case.
Women embracing new technology at a higher rate than men
Women express more interest in buying tablets, laptops and smartphones.
Two thousand consumers were recently surveyed about their buying habits with unexpected results. The survey found that women are embracing new technology and gadgets at a higher rate than men. The insight, provided by retailer HSN, has left men everywhere responding with a characteristic “Whuh?”
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17 percent of adults in the U.S. binge drink
Binge drinking is defined as consuming four or more drinks for women, and five or more drinks for men, on one occasion.
Thirty-eight million people, about 17% of adults in the U.S. say they binge drink, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Men claim two-thirds of new jobs, even jobs in retail
Men are grabbing most new jobs as the economy recovers.
Men are grabbing more than two-thirds of the private-sector jobs created as the economy recovers, reversing a long-running trend that came within a whisker of giving the U.S. its first-ever majority-female workforce.
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Women still multitask more than men but find it stressful
Women do about 10 hours more multitasking in the home each week.
Even thought men may be helping more in the home, working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study.
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Men DO think about sex more often than women but only 19 times a day: study
Men also think about sleeping, eating and other basic biological functions more than women.
That old cliche about men thinking about sex more often than wome is true and researchers have proven it by sending students out into the world to ‘log’ what they are thinking about.
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Women’s pay will overtake men’s by 2020
Pay for women will overtake men’s within a decade if current trends in the labor market continue, new figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the “gender pay gap” – the difference between average salaries of men and women – has fallen to under 10 per cent for the first time ever.
