Why Do Russian Women Convert to Islam?

Why do women hamper other women?

In virtually every forum in which I’ve been asked to speak on a gender-related subject over the past 25 years (about 100 academic health centers and 20 professional societies), I am asked some version of ‘‘Why do women treat each other so badly?’’ The turmoil resulting from feeling undermined or cut by a trusted woman seems to have more negative impact than women’s conflicts with men have. Desp...

Why do women have abortions?

Most respondents to a survey of abortion patients in 1987 said that more than one factor had contributed to their decision to have an abortion; the mean number of reasons was nearly four. Three-quarters said that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities, about two-thirds said they could not afford to have a child and half said they did not want to be a single pa...

Women and Islam

Why do women have stress urinary incontinence?

This article reviews progress made in understanding the causes of stress urinary incontinence. Over the last century, several hypotheses have been proposed to explain stress urinary incontinence. These theories are based on clinical observations and focus primarily on the causative role of urethral support loss and an open vesical neck. Recently these hypotheses have been tested by comparing me...

Why do women live longer than men?

In the contemporary United States, males have 60 percent higher mortality than females. In Part I, published in the previous issue, we showed that 40 percent of this sex differential in mortality is due to a twofold elevation of arteriosclerotic heart disease among men. Major causes of higher rates of arteriosclerotic heart disease in men include greater cigarette smoking among men; probably a ...