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Sexual satisfaction was greater, she found, in relationships in which partners initiated equally or in which women sometimes initiated sex. Sprecher tracked 38 college-educated couples (28 of them ...

Women enjoy most freedoms today that men enjoy, and have joined the American work force in droves to work as doctors, lawyers, teachers, designers, truck drivers and in many other professions.

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Gillette introduced the first razor marketed specifically to women, called the Milady Decollette, in 1915. In the 1920s, the new fashion for sleeveless tops and short dresses meant that the legs and ...