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Should Brides Take Their Husband’s Last Name?

I ran across an article on the USA Today website which was titled “70% say brides should take husband’s name” (written by Jillian Berman and datelined August 11, 2009), and decided to add a few comments of my own.
As the title says, they found that roughly 70% of the 815 respondents in a University of [...]

Men: Earn More Money With Traditional Views on Sex Roles

I recently ran across “Men With Traditional Views on Sex Roles Earn More Money” (written by Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer at LiveScience.com) and decided to add my own thoughts on that topic.
For example, the article reports that:
“Results showed that men who reported having more traditional gender role attitudes made an average of about $8,500 [...]

The Fallacy of the Six-Figure Mom Phenomenon

Every year around Mother’s Day, Salary.com comes out with a report that purports to calculate what a mother’s work is worth (in dollars). This year was no exception, as Meredith Hanrahan of Salary.com wrote in an article entitled “Six-Figure Moms” …
“While it is impossible to put a price tag on the value of [...]

Taller People Earn More Money - Size Does Matter

I recently ran across “Taller People Earn More Money” (written by Robert Roy Britt, the Editorial Director at LiveScience.com) and experienced a bit of déjà vu, as that has been quite well known for a long time.
For example, the article mentions that:
“In more than a century, no U.S. president has been below average height [...]

Man Jailed For Not Supporting Someone Else’s Child

I recently ran across an Associated Press story datelined Adel (Georgia) July 16th and entitled “Man jailed for not supporting someone else’s child”, and decided to add my own two cents worth.
The article describes the sad plight of Frank Hatley (age 50), a Georgia man who had been jailed since 2008 for failing to keep [...]

Thoughts On The Wingspouse Concept

In military aviation (according to Wikipedia), a “wingman” is a pilot who supports another pilot in a potentially dangerous flying environment (the term had originally referred to the plane flying beside and slightly behind the lead plane in an aircraft formation).
We ran across an interesting blog the other day which has adopted a similar metaphor [...]