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#Nomos, Childless and Childfree

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I have attached a flow chart I found on Facebook on trying to decide on whether or not to have children.   Some of it gets cut off when I put it into this post.

I am one of the twenty percent (and the percentage is growing) of women who have entered menopause without having children.   For some women it was a conscious choice and some it was a result of circumstance.

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Men Still Make More Money Then Women

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I attempted this short post last Friday on May 4 but somehow it got eaten up.   I did not keep a hard copy; I can hear my husband yelling at me to always make backups of my work.

There has been a lot in the new recently about women overtaking men in earning money.  I happen to be one of the forty percent of wives who earn more than their husbands though most of the time I have known him he has made more money than me.

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The Complexities of Cohabitation

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This week I told two friends I was going to be doing a blog post about an opinion piece written by a therapist in the New York Times called The Downside of Cohabitating before Marriage.   This article stated that cohabitating actually had a negative impact on the happiness of ma

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Is Might Right?

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I am being both serious and sarcastic when I say I am trying to toughen my image at work.   As readers of previous posts know I am considered petite and small boned.   In the world of work, I think this is a liability.   For both men and women tall and big is an asset-even if white-collar job.   I tell myself that I am like a dog where the small dogs tend to be more vicious then the big dogs.   So what if I have small bones?   Think of how scary poisonous snakes are-with snakes bone size does not matter.  Think of germs-s

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Accepting Smallness

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post asking if there is a style of eating that is “masculine”.   I just wanted to share an article from the NY Times called Old Gender Roles for Dinner which states that the restaurant industry believes that men and women have different food preferences and tries to market to these different eating styles.

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Are Women Becoming the Richer Sex?

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In this post, I will be making extensive references two these two web posts where Liza Mundy discusses her new book The Richer Sex.  Here are the two links below for your reference

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Manly Foods?

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Before, I begin my post for this week, I just wanted to include some links to interesting things going on in the news this week.   If you have time you can listen to this very interesting On Point radio show about the sentencing of Dahrun Ravi for hates crimes in relation to the suicide of Tyler Clemen

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