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<description>In an age when feminists have become post-feminists and men are pushing to &amp;quot;reclaim&amp;quot; manhood, what do our gender differences really mean?</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 13:48:59 CDT </pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[ Farewell to Hillary, and  to Sexism]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton will almost certainly not be the Democratic nominee for president, and the end of her campaign is a relief for Marie Cocco in the Washington Post&mdash;but not for political reasons. The end of the Democratic primary, she writes, will also put to rest the sexist rhetoric of Clinton's opponents and the media, who have called her a &quot;she-devil,&quot; &quot;whore,&quot; and worse.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:24:55 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  May-December Effect Is Real  ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The older men are when they walk down the aisle, the more likely they are to have a younger bride, according to a new study. Famous May-December pairings usually involve the rich and famous&mdash;think Donald Trump or Larry King&mdash;but the trend holds up at every income level, the San Jose Mercury News reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 07 May 2008 19:14:22 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Fertile Women Sound Sexier, Study Says]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Barflies take note: A woman's voice is sexiest when she's most fertile, a new study says. Scientists recorded women counting from 1 to 10 and found that their voices were rated most attractive when they were closest to ovulation, the BBC reports. What gives? Researchers aren't sure, but they speculate that hormones may affect the voice box.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 02 May 2008 13:37:53 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Iraqi Dad Freed in Daughter's 'Honor Killing']]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Iraqi authorities will not press charges against a father who murdered his 17-year-old daughter for falling in love with a British soldier because it was an &quot;honor killing,&quot; reports the Guardian. The father stood on the girl's neck and stabbed her last month after he learned she was attracted to a soldier distributing relief supplies in Basra. The father was arrested, but later released. &quot;Not much can be done when we have an honor killing,&quot; explained a police sergeant.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:29:14 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  50 Ways to Hock Your Lover ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Diamonds really are a girl's best friend, especially when auctioned off to sympathetic sisters on ExBoyfriendJewelry.com. EBay offers goods without much backstory, but the founders of the gem-hocking site put a personal twist on swapping, selling, and auctioning artifacts of toxic relationships, the New York Times reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:08:59 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Guardian System Has Saudi Women 'Perpetual Minors']]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Women in Saudi Arabia need to gain a male guardian&rsquo;s consent to do almost anything, living as &ldquo;perpetual minors,&rdquo; the Telegraph reports. Research by Human Rights Watch found that male permission is needed to go to a doctor, travel, and even get dressed. In addition, strict segregation denies women access to public libraries and educational institutions.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:55:16 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Women Rule in Spain's New Cabinet]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[So much for machismo. Re-elected Spanish Prime Minister Jos&eacute; Luis Rodr&iacute;guez Zapatero announced a new government this weekend, with a surprise twist: His new cabinet boasts more women than men. The eight men and nine ministras include a pregnant woman who will head the army as defense minister, the Independent reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:31:12 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Japanese Women Turn to 'Geisha Guys']]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A new breed of companion is the rage in Japan, entertaining women with lavish compliments, conversation and undivided attention&mdash;the male geisha. Businesswomen pay upwards of $1,000 a night for these men, CNN reports&mdash;with, industry reps say, nothing physical being exchanged. Hundreds of such services have sprouted across the country, driven in part by the increased spending power of Japanese women.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:11:19 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Hubbies Cost 7 Hours of Extra Housework a Week]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Husbands create seven hours a week of extra housework for their wives, while they themselves spend less time on housework than they did as singles, a new study has found. But it's not all bad news for women. Researchers tracking housework hours of single and married people also found that women devote less time now than they did in 1976, while men do more than twice as much, the Ann Arbor News reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:47:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ First Preggers Guy:  It's My Right to Have Baby]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A pregnant transgendered man always wanted to have a baby and kept his uterus so he could do so, he told Oprah Winfrey yesterday. The 34-year-old man, who's expecting in July, had his breasts removed years ago and underwent hormone treatment to change his sex. He decided to step up and be the &quot;mom&quot; when his wife learned she could not become pregnant.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:41:51 CDT  </pubDate>
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