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End-of-the-Year Checklist for Divorcing Women

Most women wait until after the holidays to move forward with their divorces –and that’s completely understandable. Many don’t want to disrupt family traditions for their children. Some welcome the distraction offered by [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Give divorced women more rights, take suggestions from the U...

The social activist was addressing the audience at an event focused on the UN’s ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ organised by the US consulate at Marriot Hotel. National Commission on the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

The Stress of Divorce, Writ on Women's Heads

In men, baldness is due mostly to an unlucky roll of the genetic dice. But in women, hair loss appears to be linked much more strongly to lifestyle factors like stress — from divorce or the death of a spouse, for example — acc [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Divorce, smoking may trigger hair loss in women

As if the heartache of divorce wasn't hardship enough, it appears that women enduring marital break-up may also have to deal with hair loss. New research reveals that, genetics aside, the next strongest predictor of midline (central) [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Divorce And Women's Hair Loss Linked In New Study

Divorce and women's hair loss may be linked, a new study shows, and stress is the most likely reason. "Most likely, stress is the aspect of a troubling divorce that appears to lead to hair loss among women," lead researcher [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Women face cash crisis in break-ups as banks tighten purse s...

Women stuck in unhappy marriages face a cash crisis with 'divorce loans' at banks drying up in the financial squeeze. Even in London – which has a reputation for being the world's 'divorce capital' – it has [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Women gain weight after marriage, men after divorce

It seems that marriage and divorce are both bad for the waistline -- while women are most likely to gain weight after tying the knot, men tend to pile on the pounds following a break-up, say researchers. A new study of more than 10,000 pe [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Strict Divorce Rules Leave Women 'Chained' to Husbands

A Lakewood, N.J., rabbi and his wife are facing life in prison. They were brought up on kidnapping charges July 18 for their alleged roles in the abduction and beating of an Israeli man who refused to give his wife a Jewish divorce, other [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Women who lose virginity as teens more likely to divorce

Researchers at the University of Iowa surveyed 3,793 women and discovered that 31 of those who lost their virginity as teens cut ties with their husbands within 5 years and nearly half divorced within 10 years. Only 15 percent of those wh [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Women More Open than Men to Divorce

Korean women are more open to the idea of divorce than men are, and also more prepared, a survey reveals. In the survey by matchmaking agency Duo of 978 single men and women in their 20s and 30s, only 20 percent of female respondents sai [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Fatwa validating divorce over phone inhuman, say women’s gro...

A fatwa issued by the Sunni Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband stating that divorce pronounced by the husband over phone is valid even if the wife has not heard it due to network problems, has evoked strong protest from activists and w [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Women file for divorce over hubbies unusual sex drive

TWO women have filed for divorce on grounds that their husbands’ unusual sex drive is linked to black magic, reports Metro Ahad. Syarie Lawyers Association deputy president Musa Awang said in the first case, the couple had been marrie [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

In Divorce, Women No Longer Have All the Power

For many years the process of divorce was a process heavily biased toward women - to balance out the fact that it was a man’s world. Traditionally, women were considered the weaker sex. They were the sex to be protected and protected [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Why I (and, I suspect, many separated women) regret divorcin...

Last weekend, at a family wedding in the country, I was overwhelmed by an emotion that has, in the last year, become only too familiar to me. Sitting in a stifling marquee, listening to my cousin Sally's husband making the tradition [...]