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Excessive maternity leave and huge sex discrimination payouts 'risk backfiring on women' - Daily Mail 15th October 2009
"Labour's equal rights laws risk harming the prospects of women in the workplace, one of Britain's top businesswomen said last night.
Nichola Pease, deputy chairman of JO Hambro capital management and a mother of three, said excessive maternity leave and eye-watering sex discrimination payouts could backfire on women. "
Darth Vader voices 'scare girls' - BBC Health News 15th September 2009
Young girls are intimidated by deep voices such as Darth Vader but get to love them as they get older, new research has found.
The St Andrews University study found the fear soon changes to curiosity at puberty, when they are drawn to deep tones such as soul singer Barry White.
'I was treated like a circus sideshow' - The Independent 12th Spetember 2009
Janet (who wishes to remain anonymous) knows how Caster Semenya feels. She describes the trauma of growing up in the medical hinterland between the sexes
South Africa threatens 'world war' if Semenya receives ban - The Independent 12th September 2009
South Africa's sports minister yesterday threatened to wage "a third world war" if his country's world champion 800m runner, Caster Semenya, finds herself banned from competition as a result of the tests she has taken to determine her gender.
'Third World War' threat over gender-row runner Caster Semenya - Daily Mail 12th September 2009
South African politicians have threatened a 'Third World War' over claims that teenage runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite.
The 18-year-old underwent tests to determine if she really is a woman after becoming 800m world champion last month.
SA threatens 'war' over Semenya - BBC Health News 11th September 2009
South African officials have stepped up their defence of Caster Semenya, warning of a "third world war" if the row over her sex stops her competing.\n\nThe 18-year-old 800m world champion has had medical tests following doubts about whether she is actually female.
Women judge, but do they convict? - BBC Health News 7th September 2009
Women are more likely to view someone as dishonest, but are less likely to convict, suggests an online study on attitudes to theft called Honesty lab.
And only 42.9% of people think that it is dishonest for a carer to pressure an elderly lady to change her will.
Transsexual killer wins battle to serve life sentence in a women's jail - The Times 5th September 2009
A transsexual killer who was born a man has won a legal battle to be transferred to a women’s prison.
The prisoner, who was also convicted of attempted rape, will be moved to a women’s jail within weeks after a High Court ruled that the refusal by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to transfer her violated her basic human rights and increased her long-term risk to society.
Transexual prisoner wins High Court battle to be moved to women's jail - Daily Mail 5th September 2009
A transsexual killer jailed for trying to rape a woman is to be moved to a women's prison - to protect his human rights.
He will now be housed with hundreds of female inmates after he claimed that serving his sentence in a men's jail was violating his right to live as a woman.
The High Court ruling comes despite a Parole Board warning that he still poses a risk of sex offending.
Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women - Daily Telegraph 3rd September 2009
Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.
It's official! Why chatting to a pretty woman is 'bad for a man's brain' - Daily Mail 4th Septemebr 2009
It is an experience that turns many chaps into an awkward, mumbling wreck.
Now scientists have confirmed that being in the presence of a pretty woman really does scramble the male brain.
A study has revealed that men who spend just a few minutes in the company of an attractive female perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function.
Women 'doubt men will take pill' - BBC Health News 25th August 2009
A university report has claimed that while men welcomed a male contraceptive pill, women said their partners could not be trusted to take one regularly.
A Teesside University team questioned 380 people about their attitude to the male pill, which is still under test.
Caster Semenya gender row: what is a hermaphrodite? - Daily Telegraph 20th August 2009
The controversy surrounding the gender of South African teenage athlete Caster Semenya has prompted the question: what is a hermaphrodite?
Woman, man or a little bit of both? How deciding Caster Semenya's gender is more complex than you might think - Daily Mail 22st August 2009
At first thought, it seems strange that the South African runner Caster Semenya needs to take a sex test to determine whether she is indeed a woman - or a man, as rumours suggest.
One would imagine that sex is something fairly clear-cut: that you are either one or the other.
Fat women 'have fat daughters' - Daily Telegraph 13th July 2009
Childhood obesity could be linked to the weight problems of parents in a gender-specific way, research in the EarlyBird Diabetes study has suggested.
Girls are 10 times more likely to be overweight if their mothers are obese - Daily Mail 13th July 2009
Obese mothers are ten times more likely to have fat daughters than those of healthy weight, research shows.
Overweight fathers are also six times more likely to have obese sons, a study of British families has discovered.
The findings, which suggest children are picking up bad eating and exercise habits from their parents, have serious implications for the childhood obesity epidemic.
Motherhood 'devastates' women's pay, research finds - The Guardian 10th July 2009
Women with children earn about 22% less than their male colleagues, according to a new report that explores the "devastating" impact of motherhood on earnings.\n\n"Before becoming parents, men and women are equally likely to be employed, but childbirth marks the start of a great divide, which continues even after children have left home and does lasting damage to women's careers," the report finds.
We need more diverse doctors - The Guardian 3rd June 2009
Within eight years, most NHS doctors will be women. But to provide the best care, we also need a social and ethnic mix
The future is female – how women are transforming face of the health service - The Guardian 3rd June 2009
A quiet sexual revolution, brought about by the overwhelming success of bright young women applying to medical schools, is about to deliver the NHS into female hands. Within eight years, according to a report published today, most doctors will be women.
Women changing the NHS: view from the surgery - The Guardian 3rd June 2009
I work three days a week as a part-time GP. I've been in the same practice for 20 years. In that time, I've raised three kids, written a couple of books, indulged my passion for medical journalism and tried to get the hang of jogging.
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