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Woman Who Wants to Make Changes on the Job
Working women know the pressures of balancing work and family, the difficulties of making ends meet and the challenges of getting ahead. Find out about working womens priorities for change in the 2004 Ask a Working Woman report and the state-by-state summaries.
Whether your top concern is equal pay or flexible hours, child care or elder care, training for a new job or respect for the one you do now, one thing is certain: Working women agree that its more effective working together to make changes on the job than trying to go it alone.
Thats why the AFL-CIO is working with womens, civil rights, community and religious organizations. We re ready to bring into focus what needs to be changed and make it happen.
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Dieting and exams dont mix
If you've got exams coming up and want to perform at your peak, then new research suggests you shouldnt diet.
Australian research shows that dieters are more forgetful when it comes to carrying out some complex cognitive tasks.
It seems that some of their memory space is taken up thoughts of food, weight and body image.
PhD student Jacqueline Shaw and Professor Marika Tiggemann from Adelaide's Flinders University publish their research in the latest issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology.
Tiggemann said memory consisted of a central executive that acted as memory headquarters to tell two slave systems what to do.
One of the slave systems looks after hearing and verbal tasks, the other is a visual spatial sketch pad.
Scientists know that dieting affects cognitive performance. Previous research had identified that it was the central executive and verbal and auditory system, but not the visual system, that are affected most by dieting.
The Australian study confirmed the verbal and auditory system finding.
The researchers divided 92 female university students into three groups: those currently on a diet, those who had dieted in the past and those who had never dieted.
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