Self-Confidence

Many women are not aware that they are suffering from lack of self-confidence.

It is a question of the women's regard of themselves. Is it confidence or cockiness?

Are you the kind of woman who is obsessed with your faults and mistakes that you hate yourself for them?

Are you the kind of woman who does not take risk?

Are you the kind of woman who define success as achievement only?

Are you kind of a woman who does not voice her opinion?

Are you the kind of a woman who rationalizes for everything that you do?

Are you the kind of woman who avoids challenges?

Then face the mirror and aks yourself if you have self-confidence. I am sure that the woman in the mirror will not able to answer the question.

Women dress their best when ovulating

My old folks used to tell us that when a pregnant lady dresses well, it means that the baby is a girl.

This research shows that women even though she's not pregnant with a baby girl still dress their best when ovulating. This is the story:

Women dress their best when ovulating, study says

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Women dress better when they are most fertile, according to a study published online last week in the journal Hormones and Behavior.

Using 30 college-age women as subjects, five researchers had a panel of 42 men and women compare photos of the women taken both when they were ovulating and when they were not, asking in which photo each woman looked more attractive. Sixty percent of the time, the panel chose the photos of the women taken when they were most fertile.

In an interview, the study's lead author, Martie Haselton, called the findings "highly statistically significant" and said, "We know the effects have something to do with ovulation." She added that the judges thought the women dressed increasingly attractively the closer they were to their most fertile day.

While other species emit scents or display other physical changes when they are ready to mate, researchers have traditionally assumed humans conceal their fertility, the paper's authors wrote. They added that their work suggests that ovulating women engage in "self-ornamentation through attentive personal grooming and attractive choice of dress."

"It's just showing us our evolution, our biology, is showing up in even the most modern of behaviors," said Haselton, a scientist at the Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture at UCLA.

The researchers were uncertain what was motivating these women, however: whether ovulating women may be trying to attract mates beyond their primary partners or simply reflecting a mood change, they wrote.

Source: SF GATE.

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REASONS WHY MEN DOMINATE SCIENCE

I just love this news article. When I was trying to climb the so-called corporate ladder, I was met with opposition and indifferences from the pant-wearing/beard/shaving citizens of the Earth, both from the top and lower rungs of the ladder. According to my deceased ma-in-law, my sis-in-law, the Harvard graduate lawyer did not pursue an academic career because of the same experience. Green-eyed but never was legally blonde, she excelled in her practice of law profession.

Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist Biologist Who Underwent Sex Change Describes Biases Against Women

Excerpt of the news:

Neurobiologist Ben Barres has a unique perspective on former Harvard president Lawrence Summers's assertion that innate differences between the sexes might explain why many fewer women than men reach the highest echelons of science. That's because Barres used to be a woman himself.

According to Barres who used to be Barbara, it is the bias which prevents women from succeeding in science and if I may add business as well.

Just look at the comments that he/she gathered in her own personal experience.

1. "Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's.- a comment made by another scientist who did not know the transgender operation Barres had so he's referring to the same person.

2. "Your boyfriend must have solved it for you."--comment made by his/her professor when once solved a difficult math problem.

3. "I had never met a woman surgeon who was as good as a man." --comment by a surgeon he had conversation with.

Besides that he felt that he is more respected now that he is a man than when he was a woman. "I can not even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted".

Another woman shares this opinion of Barres.

Nancy Andreasen, a well-known psychiatrist at the University of Iowa, agreed with Barres. She said it took her a long time to convince her husband that he got more respect when he approached an airline ticket counter than she did. When she stopped sending out research articles under her full name and used the initials N.C. Andreasen instead, she said, the acceptance rate of her publications soared.

PMS

When women say that they have PMS, it means that they feel ugly, fat, tired and bloated. PMS or Premenstrual Syndrome is a disorder characterized by hormonal changes that cause disruptive symptoms for up to two weeks before menstruation. While there is no need for medication, some women require medical treatment for marked mood swings and behavioral changes. These symptoms regularly occur from ovulation until menses.

How to Avoid Having PMS
1. Excercise. It helps boost the endorphins which are the body's natural painkillers. They may help cramped feeling.

2. Avoid sweets and eat six small meals at regular three-hour intervals, high in complex carbohydrates and low in simple sugars. This helps to maintain a steady blood glucose level and avoid energy highs and lows.

3. Reduce and eliminate use of caffeine, alcohol, salt, fats, and simple sugars to reduce bloating, fatigue, tension and depression.

4.Daily supplemental vitamins and minerals may be administered to relieve some PMS symptoms.

1. A multivitamin with B6(100 mcg)
2. B complex, magnesium (300mg)
3. Vitamin E (400 IU) and
4. vitamin C (1000 mg)

These vitamins alleviate irritability, fluid retention, joint aches, breast tenderness, anxiety, depression and fatigue.

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Midlife Crisis

Midlife is not linked to hormonal changes of women so it is not true that it starts after 40 like menopause. According to San Franciscan psychologist and author, the transition changes manifest between 35 and 40. Men may not have them until 45.It can be triggered by death of a loved one, job change, separation and divorce.A woman in her late thirties or early forties realize that they are approaching the age when childbearing is riskier if not bear physically and or or mentally incapacitated children.According to Carl Jung, it is a normal part of 'maturing'. A journey.A difficult journey with a certain amount of suffering, meaning to live through or to allow by suffering the loss, change, and letting go of much of what was brought into midlife. This transition is not easy and is greatly resisted. Midlife is ultimately about the search for true meaning in life. So when women start asking who they are, what are they doing in their lives, assessing what they have done, they are said to be going through the crisis.How do you know that you are into this crisis even you have not reached the start of life at forty? "New York Times" Editorial Page Editor Howell Raines wrote that

"it typically begins with mild twinges of dread, disappointment and restlessness that tiptoe in on little cat feet. Then in some cases, the cat feet turn to elephant feet.

Some symptoms of the crisis:

1. Fear or anxiety. Women tend to become secure of their security for the love of their spouses, their jobs or their financial resources and attention of their growing children.

2.Tension and stress. Plans that are perceived to be not going anywhere.Failures and disappointments are more in numbers than successes.

3. Anger of struggle. Believing that one does not deserve such struggle if only people she depends on are very cooperative and generous.

4. Health condition. Recognizing the symptoms associated with ageing process make one thinks of the mortality.

5. Time is running out. Aware that sooner or later, one is restricted physically and mentally to engage in activities/chores because of age.

6. Relationship. For unmarried or unattached women, the issue of being single at that point in life make them question what lead them to have celibate lives.


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