women for women
Recent research by a leading philosopher has revealed that women are more moral than men – and it's ladies over 30 who are the most honest.
The study, by professor Roger Steare, based its conclusion on a ‘Moral DNA test’ which 60,000 participants from 200 countries completed in a bid to test their moral levels.
Society is missing an 11th commandment. Woman, thou shalt be judged. Last week, there were three high-profile examples. First, Madonna, who appeared on stage in tiny shorts, displaying her allegedly withered and hideous (though actually toned and fit) buttocks. Next Victoria Beckham, widely ridiculed for describing herself as the "average woman".
Finally Rihanna, who was accused of bleaching her skin. So here was a mixed bag of world-famous womanhood: past-it pop mutton, deluded skeletal hag, and self-hating black woman? "J'accuse!" went the cry, when in fact all three of these women are probably owed an apology.
Katharine Lloyd, left reeling when an acquaintance angled for an affair with her husband, discovers she is not alone in finding herself victim to a new, highly predatory female.
My husband and I walk into the drinks party. “There you are!” our hostess trills, “Let me introduce you.” She does the rounds, escorting us from one group to another, introducing us as “the Lloyds”. It is clear we are a married couple.
OK, we don’t hold hands and gaze rapturously into one another’s eyes; but the shared surname and the fact that James gets me a glass without needing to ask whether I prefer red to white send out a pretty clear message. There is no excuse, then, for what happens next.
In the same way that smoking no longer looks cool, businesses need to change perception of women board-members, writes Joni Farthing According to the BBC less than a third of top jobs in this country are held by women and recent research by NYU and University of Utah finds that senior men with wives who don’t work outside the home generally see women as “unsuited (sic) to the corporate world”. Surprised? No, neither am I. Interested?
Kate Adams had been working for the same advertising agency for nine years when the recession began to bite.
Round after round of redundancies put her and her remaining colleagues under increasing pressure, and the hours became unbearable
Some days she would get home at 2am and be back at her desk at 7am. The stress soon started to have an effect. ‘I became a different person as soon I walked through the office doors,’ says Kate, 39. [more…]
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