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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; women</title>
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	<description>An intellectual climate favorable to marriage</description>
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		<title>Will women stock exchange traders rescue Wall Street?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/23/will-women-stock-exchange-traders-rescue-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/23/will-women-stock-exchange-traders-rescue-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex differences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Denyse O&#8217;Leary The new science of neuroeconomics is making big claims. Can they be justified? Can neuroeconomics rescue shattered economies? We are asked by some to believe that it can. “Neuroeconomics” is one of many new directions in neuroscience &#8211; scanning the brains of floor traders, for example. In &#8221; Testosterone and high finance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women, Sex and the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/20/women-sex-and-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/20/women-sex-and-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 18:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Convert From Radical Feminism Gathers Women to Defend Church Teaching Note from Dr. Morse, who is a contributor to this volume,: &#8220;Erica’s personal journey  is precisely the story we are looking for at the Ruth Institute: people who have learned from experience that the sexual revolution is a lie. &#8216;The divorce at 12 was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest from the University of the Bleedin&#8217; Obvious: Couples stay together because women want love and men like sex</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/29/latest-from-the-university-of-the-bleedin-obvious-couples-stay-together-because-women-want-love-and-men-like-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/29/latest-from-the-university-of-the-bleedin-obvious-couples-stay-together-because-women-want-love-and-men-like-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Co habitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cohabitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pat Hagan It&#8217;s a bit of a cliche that women settle down for love, and men for regular sex. But scientists are claiming it&#8217;s true. A study shows that women agree to cohabit because they view it as a stepping stone to marriage. Yet men move in hoping for more sex and to &#8216;test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men have upper hand in sexual economy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/24/men-have-upper-hand-in-sexual-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/24/men-have-upper-hand-in-sexual-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Co habitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hooking up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-marital sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Elizabeth Landau &#8211; CNN.com Health Writer/Producer It&#8217;s not a new theory:  As women progress in educational and professional opportunities, their odds of finding a committed man appear to go down. Women in their 40s and 50s have long heard this, but new research finds it&#8217;s true for women just entering adulthood as well. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mental health of women in crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/14/mental-health-of-women-in-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/14/mental-health-of-women-in-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=5322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amelia Hill According to survey of 2,000 girls and women, around two-thirds have had mild to moderate mental health problems. Almost a third of women aged over 18 have taken antidepressants, according to research published today which its authors claim reveals &#8220;generations of women in crisis&#8221; with mental health problems. According to a survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalamazoo podcasts</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/22/kalamazoo-podcasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/22/kalamazoo-podcasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Podcasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalamazoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=4268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately there have been quite a few blog posts about the goings-on at last weekend&#8217;s Catholic Women&#8217;s Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Dr J gave two talks.  They&#8217;re now available on our podcast page so you can go straight to the source. Female without Apology Marriage without Adjectives]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Female Fertility</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/27/the-gift-of-female-fertility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/27/the-gift-of-female-fertility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Roback Morse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short excerpt from an outstanding chapter in the Women, Sex and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching anthology, to which I am a contributor. Angela Franks, Ph.D. contributed the chapter on contraception. As you know, the prohibition on contraception is one of the most controversial teachings of the Catholic Church. My arrangement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women, Abortion, and the Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/20/women-abortion-and-the-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/20/women-abortion-and-the-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz September 20, 2010 Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings. This past semester, in a course taught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double Standards or &#8220;Why hooking up is dumber for women&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/12/double-standards-or-why-hooking-up-is-dumber-for-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/12/double-standards-or-why-hooking-up-is-dumber-for-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Integrity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An awful lot of nonsense has been said about the supposed &#8220;double standards&#8221; between the sexual histories of men and the sexual histories of women.  The discussion of sexuality is full of it like so much verbal ipecac.  The typical whine goes like this &#8220;why is it that a man who&#8217;s been with a hundred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This month&#8217;s Mapping America: &#8220;Women with Two or More Cohabitations in Lifetime&#8221; by Current Religious Attendance and Structure of Family of Origin</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/this-months-mapping-america-women-with-two-or-more-cohabitations-in-lifetime-by-current-religious-attendance-and-structure-of-family-of-origin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/this-months-mapping-america-women-with-two-or-more-cohabitations-in-lifetime-by-current-religious-attendance-and-structure-of-family-of-origin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Co habitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cohabitation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=3136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ruth institute Advisory Board member Pat Fagan edits the Mapping America series for Family Research Council. In this month’s edition, he asks, “What increases the likelihood of a woman having two or more cohabitations in her lifetime?” Looking at two or more cohabitations is significant because this weeds out the couples who move in together right before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/27/the-paradox-of-declining-female-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/27/the-paradox-of-declining-female-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting, and relates to some of our other recent posts, for interested parties. By Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years by many objective measures, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pill’s deadly affair with HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/28/the-pill%e2%80%99s-deadly-affair-with-hivaids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/28/the-pill%e2%80%99s-deadly-affair-with-hivaids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fifty Years on the Pill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting. Verrrrrrrrry interesting. It only makes sense that there would be consequences to putting foreign chemically junk in your body, right? by Carolyn Moynihan Why does HIV/AIDS strike more women than men globally? Why is sub-Saharan Africa the home of the world’s largest heterosexual HIV/Aids epidemic? Why does Thailand have an HIV infection rate of over [...]]]></description>
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