Do homosexual marriages last longer ?

There will always be battles during heterosexual marriages between the sexes because men and women want different things. According to one study, over 40-year span, the divorce rate for heterosexual couples in their 1st marriages is 67%.

Guess what is the divorce rate of homosexual marriages ?

In theory (and many studies have showed), gay/lesbians couples should understand their partners' bodies and biases with a certainty, resulting relationships less mired in deception and friction. However, it turned out that the break-up rate for homosexuals, over a 40-year span, is grim 64%, and gay men are far more likely to split than lesbians.

Well..., we are all Homo sapiens.

Source: Psychology Today, Jan/Feb, 2007.

51% of women live outside of traditional marriages

According to a New York Times analysis of census results, in 2005, 51% of women in US said they were living without a spouse, up from 35% in 1950 and 49% in 2000.

There are several factors contributed to this statistical shift - women are marrying later or living with partners more often and for longer periods; women are living longer as widows and, staying single longer after a divorce, sometimes delighting in their newfound freedom.

As for men, a larger share of men are married and living with their spouse - about 53%. Men often remarry quickly than women after a divorce.

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Is silver hair really sexy on guys ?

According a recent pull among Match.com users, the answer is yes. 72% of women think gray hair is hot! Apparently many women believe men with gray hair (silver fox ?) having more money and power, and much more mature in terms of building relationships and families.

I don't have anything to wear !

Oh, yeh? Many women are 'periodic excessive buyers', according to Jean Chatzky, the author of book Make Money, Not excuses. Although women's income are less then men, they spend more. In 2005, full-time full year female works earned 23% less than male workers, but single women spent $1,069 on clothing and services vs. $832 spent by single men. By some estimates, 12% -15% of American women are so called 'excessive buyers'.

Are female teacher better for girls ?

Are female teachers better for girls? or male teachers better for boys? One interesting (may be controversial ) study say the answer is yes. According to the author, Thomas S. Dee (an economist at Swarthmore College), “Learning from a teacher of the opposite gender has a detrimental effect on students, My best estimate is that it lowers test scores for both boys and girls by approximately 4% of a standard deviation and has even larger effects on various measures of student engagement".

I am just glad that the 4% is not a big number (if it is confirmed by other studies). Be reminded that about 80% of teachers in U.S. public schools are women currently - the same likely to be true, more or less, for other countries.

Dee said he also discovered that a teacher's gender influenced attitudes towards student behavior: Female teachers were more likely to see boys as disruptive, and male teachers were more likely to see girls as inattentive.

Half of the sky

• According to a 2003 survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 1/3 of wives earn more than their husbands.
  
• According to a study by the Families and Work Institute, a nonpartisan research organization in New York, women overall bring in 43% of household incomes.

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Taller men and slimmer women have better chances of finding a date

Ever wonder why Snow White found Prince Charming so attractive ? May be because he is tall.

A new study out of the University of Essex shows that for every 1 inch of height a man has on his rivals, the number of women who want to go out with him increases by 5%.

In addition to discovering that ladies like tall men, the researchers found that dudes dig smart chicks: Women with a college degree bested their less educated counterparts. Thin women also did better than the clinically overweight. Both sexes preferred youthful partners, and non-smokers generally stuck to other non-smokers, showing that people prefer rosy cheeks and rosy lungs. Most significantly, the researchers said, a man's success was dependent upon how he stacked up against the others in his speed dating group; a 5'9 man in a group of 5'6 guys did as well as a 6'2 man in a group of 5'11 guys

Men do compulsive buying too

I have long believed that only women experience compulsive buying disorder, a condition marked by compulsive buying and subsequent financial and relationship ruins. It turn out that men have the same problem, according to a survey done by Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers found that 6% of women and 5.5% of men in US had symptoms consistent with compulsive buying disorder.

Well, we are all human; men and women just buy different things.

Divorce harms women's long-term health

Another study from Iowa State's Institute for Social and Behavioral Research suggests divorce harms women's long-term health. In the short term, women who got divorced reported 7% more "psychological distress" than those who didn't. After a decade, the divorced group reported 37% more physical illness than the married group. Women who remarried fared better than those who didn't.

Midlife divorce increases heart disease for women but not men

Based on several thousand cases beginning at age 51, researchers calculated that by age 60, women who were divorced, remarried, or widowed were nearly 50% more likely to have cardiovascular disease than women who stayed married".

No such difference was seen for men. In fact, men who remarried were actually 19% less likely to develop heart disease than those who had stayed married to the same person. The researchers conclude that "emotional distress and socioeconomic status" cause the harm to women.

Women are still uncertain about their financial futures

Although increasing number of women are controlling more money, running countries and companies, and taking care of their family, still 90% of the 1,925 women surveyed said they feel financially insecure, according to a study about women and money released by Allianz Life Insurance Co.

Why the fear? Women have longer life expectancies, but typically earn less than men. Some spend years out of the work force raising children, to name few reasons.

Sex Differences in the Brain

Chart above is a summary of recent a study on psychological gender differences.
In comparing differences between the sexes, researchers use a statistical measure called d. This indicates how far apart the averages of two groups (in this case men and women) are, taking into account the range of values that contribute to each average. For example, the value of d for adult height is around 2. There is no arguing that in any given population men, on average, are taller than women. For behavioural and psychological phenomena, a value of d greater than 0.8 is considered large, of 0.5, moderate, and of 0.2, small. Any d less than 0.2 is a negligible difference.
Of the 124 cognitive tasks studied, 30% had a value of d close to zero and in a further 48% of cases, d was small. In other words, only 22% of reported behavioural differences between the sexes are worth raising an eyebrow over.
In summary, men and women think differently, but not that differently.

Girls gone wired

A study found:
77% of women surveyed would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond solitaire necklace;
56% would opt for a new plasma TV over a weekend vacation in Florida;
86% would prefer a new digital video camera to a pair of designer shoes.

Women react fast to erotic images too

It is a general believe that men are more aroused by erotic images than women, but according to a recent study, it turned out, women have responses as strong as those seen in men. Erotic images elicited women neuron firing within 160 milliseconds—about 20% faster than occurred with any of the other pictures.

Women outnumber men on campus

According to recent Federal statistics, the U.S. population is 51% female. The number of women enrolled in undergraduate classes has grown more than 2-times as fast as it has for men. Women out number men on campus by at least 2 million, Women now account for about 50% the enrollment in professional programs such as law, medicine and optometry. That is up from 22% a generation ago.

Working moms healthier, thinner than stay at homes

Women who juggle career and family tend to be thinner and healthier as they approach midlife than long-term stay-at-home moms, a new study suggests - fewer than 23% of women in stable relationships who had raised children and held outside jobs for many years were obese at age 53, compared to 38% of women who were described as long-term married homemakers. In addition, full-time homemakers reported the most poor health, followed by single mothers and the childless.

Researcher believe “being able to participate fully in society, both in and outside the home, is important for health.”

The findings also suggested that the stresses associated with holding down a job while raising small children take their toll on women’s health, especially when children were younger than 6; but it began improving afterward.

Moms at work

After adding up all the different jobs moms do, if paid, stay at home moms would earn $134,121 annually (up from 2005's salary of $131,471) according to Salary.com.

Job titles stay at home moms are: housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, CEO, psychologist and teacher.

A survey by the professional women's networking organization WorldWit found that 69% would rather work for a mother than a non-mother, and only 2% prefer a non-mother. They say mothers have patience, listening skills, time management and prioritizing skills, and understand when others encounter family demands.

Women are from Venus, men are from ...

According to results of the new ELLE/MSNBC.com Sex and Love Survey, although men and women start with the same level of sexual satisfaction when they begin a relationship, after just a few years, almost twice as many guys as women reported being very dissatisfied (24% vs. 13%) with their bedroom activities. Men were more likely to report less sexual frequency -73% of men said there was more sex in the early days, compared with 65% of women.

Experts say men have a greater preference for different partners and variety; when not satisfied, they become less content, both physically and emotionally, than they were in the early days.

Women dig guys with creativity

Women love men's artsy side. A 2005 study put this well-known fact down to numbers - it found that artists and poets had had a total of 4 - 10 sexual partners, while people with less creative jobs had 3. According to the study’s author, Daniel Nettle, Ph.D., a psychology lecturer at Newcastle University, creative people tend to be charismatic and their artistic pursuits are particularly interesting to others. The study also found that the number of sexual partners an artsy type had increased when he spent more time on creative, right-brained pursuits.

How the other sex experiences an orgasm ?

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