In a country where women are stoned for immodesty, appearing in a soap opera is practically a political statement. However, for many of these actresses, financial need overshadows their concerns about respect. The Secret of this House is Afghanistan’s first soap opera, created as a more wholesome alternative to those racy Hindi shows from India. ...
Working mothers are fine — mostly, a new study has revealed. Researchers looked at the results of 69 studies which were conducted between 1960 and 2010 and concluded that a working mother was a benefit to some families, as long as she didn’t have a career. The results varied based on the socio-economic make-up of ...
Jenna Jameson, star of such films as Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures 35 and Up and Cummers, has warned girls off a career in the porn industry. Speaking at the VMAs on Sunday, she said that it can be a tough industry. “It’s a hard lifestyle and I made the choice and I was able to ...
Want to be a CEO? To make it to the top of your field? Rake in more than $300,000 a year? Don’t have kids (if you are a woman, that is). A survey of British head-hunters (the kind that gives you jobs, not shrink your cranium) found that most thought motherhood was incompatible with high ...
Lily Allen met the man of her dreams. Then she made plans to move to the country and ditch all of her showbiz friends. Now she is planning on giving up her career and becoming a stay-at-home mom. Is the singer following her heart, or just her man? A “close” friend told the Daily Mail: ...
You know those women who drive up in their Lexus to attend a seminar about the slums of Mumbai, only to leave wishing they had such a “real” and “authentic” existence? Well they have turned their myopic sights to teenage pregnancy.
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Blondes have more fun. They are also “more aggressive and determined than redheads and brunettes” a study has found. This must explain Paris Hilton’s success!
It was with some awe that I, as a female child and then teenager growing up in a Western, democratic country, received news and associated gossip about women of my mother’s and grandmother’s generations who had ‘made it’. There were several after all: the thrice divorced and childless Queen’s Council; the UN Ambassador from India, ...
It’s true, even the rich and famous have trouble navigating motherhood and careers. Sarah Jessica Parker, Carrie from Sex and the City, has said that she has “enormous regrets about” signing up to do the movie sequel because of the strain on her new young family.
Mack, Morning Quickie
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
