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- Healthier men now OUTLIVE women in many parts of England as they quit smoking and get fit in middle age
- The Global Gender Gap report assumes that women SHOULD live about 6% longer than men - i.e. a country wherein men and women live equally as long would be counted as one in which women face a gender gap. Historically sex-based differences in life expectancy seems to have been impacted by childbirth related deaths. Are differences in typical gender roles in the last century or so now having a related effect?
- Abba admit outrageous outfits were worn to avoid tax
- "the reason for their bold fashion choices lay not just in the pop glamour of the late 70s and early 80s, but also in the Swedish tax code. According to Abba: The Official Photo Book ... the band's style was influenced in part by laws that allowed the cost of outfits to be deducted against tax – so long as the costumes were so outrageous they could not possibly be worn on the street."
- Goldman Handed Out Cosmetic Mirrors and Nail Files at Women’s Coding Event
- I don't have a problem with this. I've heard complaints about conferences before where, e.g., t-shirts only come in male sizes. That said I'm going to guess that someone will object by claiming that it contributes to the objectification of women's appearances.
- Conservative MP Rob Anders seeks return of 'rape' as a distinct crime, along with harsher penalties
- Only "sexual assault" exists in there at the moment. It seems to me that to a certain extent the boy-who-cried-wolf phenomena applies here - "When the language of sexual assault is used ... we can deny violence against women by saying "Well, for all we know he bumped up against her accidentally in the elevator."'" There's a lot of stuff that studies in this area classify as rape or sexual assault that relatively few would be likely to recognize as such.