According to an Upshot analysis of data from multiple sources, the practice of keeping one’s maiden name after marriage—which declined sometime in the 1980’s or 1990’s—has begun rising again. Women are choosing to keep their maiden names more for practical reasons than political ones. For many women, sociologists say, keeping their maiden names has lost […]
Divorce may be linked to a higher heart risk for heart attack, especially for women. A study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes on a nationally representative sample of adults ages 45 to 80, all of whom were married or had previously been married, showed that women face a higher risk of a heart […]
Recently hundreds of millions of email addresses and other types of personal identification were found in the hands of Russian hackers. Here are some steps you can take to keep the impact of hackers to a minimum: 1. You should assume that your personal information is part of the stolen data. The wisest thing to […]
Assaults involving drugs seem to be on the rise in the United States. And it doesn’t only happen to women—it can just as easily happen to men! Drugs have earned a more menacing reputation than liquor-induced incidents. Drugs like gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) amd Rohypnol (“roofies”) are increasingly in the news. They are called “knockout drugs.” […]