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French Women Push To Do Away With 'Mademoiselle'

What are your thoughts on the need to remove this linguistic custom? How would the change happen?

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How could a less-expensive form a birth control change opportunities for women in developing countries? Zoom Image

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How could a less-expensive form a birth control change opportunities for women in developing countries?

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Female Orgasm Remains an Evolutionary Mystery | Wired Science | Wired.com

Why is it important to understand the evolutionary origins of female orgasm? Do you find the research methods discussed in this article to be valid? What other purposes can you think of for female orgasm?

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Gender Gap Vanishes in Female-Empowered Cultures | Wired Science | Wired.com

This article describes the factors that are related to the missing gender gap on a spacial reasoning test in a culture that promotes the leadership of women. What is your bet on how education and/or home ownership is related to performance on this test?

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Seven Creepy Experiments That Could Teach Us So Much (If They Weren’t So Wrong) | Magazine

What kind of information about the Psychology of Women could be gained through these types of experiments? Can you think of any circumstance that would make these methods justifiable?

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What do you make of the limited number of states that require sex education? Is it fair to compare rates of sexually transmitted infections with sex ed requirements?
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What do you make of the limited number of states that require sex education? Is it fair to compare rates of sexually transmitted infections with sex ed requirements?

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Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?

If it’s true that our culture is failing to train men in skills needed for successful interpersonal relationships, how might women be affected psychologically? What role might psychologists have in easing this trend?    

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Women’s Sex Noises and Orgasm Screams: Voluntary or Not? | World of Psychology

What type of research biases might be present in this study? Is self-report a good research design? Are the findings a result of essentialism or social constructions?

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