Womens Corner

New York-based designer Kopal will teach clothing design to widows staying in shelter homes run by Sulabh International and the apparel created by them will be marketed in the US and Australia.

An initiative of ocial reformer Bindeshwar Pathak, the programme aims to empower widows by enabling them to learn new skills to serve the fashion industry.

Kopal Friday launched the training programme for widows at Meera Sahabhagini Ashram in Vrindavan.

A man from China, who had returned to live with his “jealous” wife after she chopped off his penis, had gotten his genitals dismembered again.

Han Mou, from Anhui, China, had asked his wife for a divorce, who believed that he wanted to split because he was sleeping with other women, News.com.au reported.

Zhang, who had slipped her husband some sleeping pills and cut off his penis, before flushing it down the toilet, was arrested but let out on bail and continued live with her husband and kids, while awaiting trial.

British women are way ahead when it comes to getting leisure time, as they have on average more than five-and-a-half hours downtime every day, researchers have found.

Girls spend over two hours watching TV and listening to the radio and the same amount of time socialising and on entertainment and sport, the Daily Star reported.

Fellas spend even more time having fun – six-and-a-half hours, on average. But women do spend two hours and 13 minutes on jobs such as cleaning, washing and shopping, while British men spend an hour and six minutes doing chores.

A Northwestern University biomedical engineer has designed a first-of-its-kind intravaginal ring that reliably delivers an antiretroviral drug and a contraceptive for months. Patrick Kiser’s one ring delivers two drugs that do three important things: the device is designed to protect against HIV and herpes as well as unwanted pregnancy. It will be the first device with the potential to offer this protection to be tested in women.

A new study suggests that pregnant women who drink water and eat a diet rich in fruit, vegetables and whole grain cereal could reduce their chance of premature birth.

Experts found that women who enjoyed such a diet, also rich in oils, whole grain bread and poultry, were less likely to give birth before 37 weeks, News.com.au reported.

Those women who followed a different, more “traditional” diet of foods such as potatoes, cooked vegetables and fish could also cut their risk.

Experts studied data for 66,000 pregnant women, of which 3,505 (5.3 percent) delivered their babies early.

Researchers have said that girls who play with Barbie dolls see fewer career options for themselves than for boys.

Aurora M. Sherman, an associate professor in the School of Psychological Science at Oregon State University, said that playing with Barbie has an effect on girls’ ideas about their place in the world, asserting that it creates a limit on the sense of what’s possible for their future.

Barbie, introduced in 1959, was the first “fashion doll,” with an emphasis on her clothes and appearance.

A new study has found that women’s jobs are not only poorer paid, less flexible and more stressful, but they also offer fewer promotion opportunities as compared to men.

Professor Haya Stier of Tel Aviv University and Professor Meir Yaish University of Haifa found that men scored 0.215 points higher as compared to women when it came to income and opportunities for promotion, while men scored 0.159 points lower than women when asked about how stressful and exhausting the work was.

An Indian woman from Prakashan, Andhra Pradesh , regularly allows her husband to smash tiles on her head with a sledgehammer.

Bhramaramba Budati makes an unusual living by performing daredevil stunts with her husband and two sons, Daily Star reported.

Budati is one of the country’s most impressive daredevils. Her stunts also include slicing coconuts on her body. (ANI)

Sexual assault continued to be a pervasive problem in society and inside a bar or pub and sexual aggression against women has become a common experience, revealed a study.

The bar-based sexual aggression often reflects intentional sexual invasiveness and unwanted persistence rather than misperceptions in sexual advances.

“Bar-based aggression is almost certainly more likely to involve people who do not know each other very well or at all,” said Kate Graham, a senior scientist at the centre for addiction and mental health at the University of Toronto.

A new study has found that yoga can benefit women who are undergoing treatment for breast cancer, as it regulates stress and fights fatigue.

The research has found that patients, who participated in yoga exercises that incorporated controlled breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques into their treatment plan, experienced improved ability to engage in their daily activities, better general health and better regulation of stress hormone cortisol.

A classified ad in a newspaper seems to show an act of revenge against a cheating husband and his pregnant mistress.

The listing offers Patrick Brown and Shara Cormier congratulations on the news that the couple is expecting a baby together – and it has apparently been signed by Brown’s wife Timeshia , Metro.co.uk reported.

It’s unclear precisely where and when this advertisement was published, although it seems that the parties involved could be from an area in Sabine County, Texas. (ANI)

Researchers have said that women are able to carry higher levels of genetic defects without getting any brain development disorders like autism, supporting the possibility of a “female protective effect.”

The study has provided clues as to why 50 percent more males typically have an intellectual disability than females and why boys are four times likelier to suffer from autism than girls, Discovery News reported.

In an attempt to help lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women find love, a new dating app, dubbed Dattch, has been launched in San Francisco. According to TechCrunch, Dattch can be compared with Pinterest in user interface as it focuses on user’s photos like snaps of where they live, what they wear or what they like.

Researchers have suggested that a protein only recently linked to cancer has a significant effect on the risk that breast cancer will spread, and that lowering the protein’s level in cell cultures and mice reduces chances for the disease to extend beyond the initial tumor.

A woman from UK – dubbed hot convict after her image surfaced on internet – has filed a lawsuit against a background check website, saying that the company used her arrest booking photo for commercial and advertising purposes, without compensating or even getting her permission.

Meagan Simmons, of Zephyrhills, Florida, filed the lawsuit in Hillsborough County Court against InstantCheckmate.com, CBS reported.

In her lawsuit, she said that all the exposure has disturbed her peace of mind, and invaded her privacy, causing her mental anguish.

A 24-year-old girl from Cromer, Norfolk has come out in open regarding her sexual appetite.

Nessa Jay has revealed that she is a nymphomaniac and gets sweaty palms, feels angry and need to satisfy herself if she doesn’t get at least five orgasms a day through sex, Daily Star reported.

In an interview with The Sun, Jay said that if she is not having sex then she either writes about it, reads about it or even teaches her friends who aren’t as confident in the bedroom as she is.

A new study has revealed that women who take oral contraceptives are at higher risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). However, researchers said that the findings do not mean women should stop using birth control, Fox News reported.

The researchers, who utilized membership data from Kaiser Permanente Southern California, analyzed the health records of 305 women aged 14 to 48 who were diagnosed with MS or its precursor, clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), between 2008 and 2011.

A new study has revealed that women who take oral contraceptives are at higher risk of multiple sclerosis (MS).

However, researchers said that the findings do not mean women should stop using birth control, Fox News reported.

The researchers, who utilized membership data from Kaiser Permanente Southern California, analyzed the health records of 305 women aged 14 to 48 who were diagnosed with MS or its precursor, clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), between 2008 and 2011.

A UK teenager is so obsessed with eating ketchup that she consumes her bodyweight of the stuff everyyear.

Melissa Ibbitson said that she started eating ketchup when she first went to McDonalds as a kid, Daily Star reported.

The 19-year-old teen said that she eats so much of that stuff that she is now anxious thinking what it’s doing to her body.

Ibbitson eats spaghetti or beans on toast with ketchup for breakfast; in lunch she eats a sandwich with ketchup and dinner includes ketchup with whatever she eats.

Researchers have said that social pain activates some brain circuits of physical pain whether we feel it personally or when we experience it as an empathic response to other people’s pain.

The study by Giorgia Silani, Giovanni Novembre and Marco Zanon of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, is innovative since it adopted a more realistic experimental procedure than used in the past and compared behaviours and the results of functional magnetic resonance imaging in the same subjects, during tests involving both physical and social pain.

Previous studies have shown that children who were breastfed score higher on IQ tests and perform better in school, now a new study has revealed the reason behind this well stated fact.

The study by sociologists at Brigham Young University pinpoints two parenting skills as the real source of this cognitive boost: Responding to children’s emotional cues and reading to children starting at 9 months of age.

Breastfeeding mothers tend to do both of those things, the study’s lead author Ben Gibbs, said.

Researchers have found that ovulation alters women’s economic decisions and shifts their focus on their social standing relative to other women, making them meaner towards other women and, surprisingly, nicer towards men.

According to a new research from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, the ovulatory cycle alters women’s behavior by subconsciously motivating them to outdo other women.

A new study has found that overweight or obese women, who think that they are “eating for two”, are more likely to experience excessive weight gain while pregnant.

Cynthia Chuang from Penn State College of Medicine studied the attitudes and habits of women who gained appropriate weight and those who exceeded guidelines.

Participants in the study were asked about their diet habits, experience with morning sickness and physical activity habits during pregnancy.

Eliminating maternal mortality, which is defined as the deaths related to pregnancy, would result in a gain of over a half year in life expectancy worldwide, according to a new study.

Over the twentieth century, women’s life expectancy in developed countries increased by 0.5 years due to a near elimination of maternal mortality.

In sub-Saharan African countries, the possible achievable gains from eliminating maternal mortality fluctuate between 0.24 and 1.47 years, or 6 percent and 44 percent of potential gains.

A new research suggests that for women who carry a notorious cancer gene and need to remove healthy ovaries through surgery, may benefit most from having the operation as young as 35.

Women who inherit either of two faulty BRCA genes were at much higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer than other women, and at younger ages.

Actress Angelina Jolie generated headlines last year when she had her healthy breasts removed to reduce her cancer risk.

The study just out was the largest yet to show the power of preventive ovarian surgery for those women.