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Working Moms Quit Breastfeeding Too Soon

Researchers have found that working mothers often stop breastfeeding when their maternity leave expires, according to WalletPop. Breastfeeding is healthy for both mother and child, and doctors advise mothers to bre…
Sweet Deals: Dockers & Magazines — Great Last-Minute Gifts!

It's Christmas Eve, which means retailers and getting more and more desperate to sell products to last-minute shoppers. Our first two deals come from The Bargainist: The Winter Sale at Dockers features bargains at…
The Real Reason Why It Costs More To Be A Woman

This is a response to a recently featured post called "Why It Costs More To Be a Woman." It annoyed me a bit that the post said how it costs more to be a woman, but not really why. Market price is driven by supply and…
Why It Costs More To Be a Woman

twentyfivecents@dollarish sent us a disturbing article from MSN Money about how women are typically charged more than men for essentially the same products. Women-targeted products, such as lotion, shampoo, razors, and…
The Recession: Good for Marriages?

Divorce rates across the country have decreased since 2008, but Recessionwire has a cool article up listing five more substantial ways that the recession is actually benefiting married couples. Let's have a look: Coup…
Gender Equality In The Post-Feminist Era

Hooray! We live in a woman’s world, according to the recent Shriver Report. Mothers are the major breadwinners in 40% of families. We have a female speaker of the House and Secretary of State, and women serve as Gover…
P&G Gambles on Periods

Image Source Procter & Gamble is employing a targeted, Internet-heavy ad campaign to market their female sanitary products in Singapore, where most American commercials ("Outsmart mother nature!" and so on) would…
Female Purchasing Power

Image Source The Los Angeles Times recently printed an interesting review of two books exploring the growing spending power of women, and what retailers can do to harness that power. The first is Why She Buys, a ligh…
"Stiletto Stoners" — Career Women turn to Cannabis

Image Source The New York Daily News had a very enlightening article yesterday about a new trend in the drug/career world: "Stiletto Stoners." This refers to the growing population of high-powered career women who li…
The Man-Cession: More Men Out of Work

Image Source I'm always on the lookout for cleverly coined terms, and today my scouring of the Internet did not disappoint. Ladies and gentleman, I give you: man-cession. This term has been popping up all over the p…