Tag: women

Statistics show there has never been a better time to be a woman. As of 2014, there were almost 9.1 million female-owned businesses in the United States, generating more than $1.4 trillion (yes, with a “T”) in revenue. The percentage of women who are household breadwinners is rising. Young American women are 33 percent more likely than their male peers to have earned a college degree by age 27. And around the world, women hold several of the highest offices in the land.

The following is a round-up of news items compiled by the Hitched editors during the week of July 10, 2014.

Giving Birth at an Older Age Linked to Longer Life
We know that couples have been getting married at an older age (29.0 years old for men and 26.6 years old for women, according to a November 2013 report from the U.S. Census Bureau; and that the average age of women giving birth to their first child has risen steadily over the past four decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The following is a round-up of news items compiled by the Hitched editors during the week of June 27, 2014.

Little Has Changed In Household Chores

Women have leaned in at the office and the men have stepped in and picked up the slack at home, right? Well, the data seems to have stayed about the same for the past 10 years according to the latest American Time Use Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Back in their 2004 release 84% of women spent some of their time doing household activities, such as housework, cooking, lawn care, or financial and

I think we all have begun to see a disturbing trend in recent years. More often we are seeing girls bullying girls, but not like it used to be. Historically, girls have not been immune to bullying, but the way they approached it was typically through manipulation, name calling, getting others girls to not be friends with a girl or even making up very painful stories. What we are seeing now is that bullying is becoming much more aggressive and physical. All across the country more stories are surfacing about brutal types of bullying among girls. Research is showing that bullying behavior with girls has been on the rise since the 1990s.

People who are already battling the bulge seem to really pack on the pounds when they experience stress. Jason Block, MD, whose Harvard research was published in The American Journal of Epidemiology, implicates stress as a trigger for weight gain. Apparently the stress response is gender specific. Men get stressed over workplace hierarchy, difficulty paying the bills, the inability to learn new skills along with workplace demands.

However, women have broader categories when they experience stress; they are hit hard by strained relationships and feeling limited by life’s circumstances, according to Dr. Block.

How do you men put up with this? Brian, what can I say to women about their body image that hasn’t been said a thousand times before? Women have been there, done that, worn the t-shirt.

Women resonate when Joy Davidson, author of Fearless Sex writes, "Eighty percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. Five to ten million adolescent girls and adult women struggle with eating disorders in the United States alone. Almost half of all American women are on a diet any day of the week."

An unhappy marriage predisposes women to metabolic syndrome, a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to a study by University of Utah psychologists. Apparently, when women are stressed, they are prone to an increase in blood pressure, an unhealthy lipid panel, insulin resistance and fat distributed around the middle. Yes, your husband could be making you fat! Who knew?

Purposeless arguing, red-hot anger and simmering resentment in marital life cause women to feel stressed, which leads to depression. Since women feel stress more intensely than men, they are more likely to fall into a negative loop.