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Finance
Publication: The Guardian
Ruth Kelly, economic secretary to the Treasury, is concerned that women are not interested in long-term financial planning. Women over the age of 55 are half as likely as men to have their own pension. This figure falls to around 20% less likely, for women under 35.
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Weddings
Publication: The Guardian
Spring is here, and every marquee in the Cotswolds has been hired out for a wedding. My futile search for a stretch of canvas was solved by my assistant finding us a Scout Kitchen from Yorkshire. She's from Yorkshire herself, and she says it's still too cold up north to be starting the rest of your life in a tent.
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Lesbian
Publication: The Guardian
In the long argument over designer babies, did anyone imagine that parents might prefer a designer disability?
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Nature Nurture
Publication: The Guardian
I am feeling weighed down by the new Essentialism. The nature and nurture debate is as old as we are, but recent years of trendy relativism seem to be collapsing back into a genetic-based argument where science has replaced God as the irrefutable So What?
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Mothers
Publication: The Guardian
Mother love is a tricky business. There are Madonna mothers and monster mothers. There are mothers of all mankind, like Mother Theresa and Princess Di, and there are mothers like my own Mrs Winterson, who on hearing the news that I had fallen in love with a girl, lay on the settee and said 'My varicose veins are going to burst.'
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Mothers
Publication: The Guardian
Mother love is a tricky business. There are Madonna mothers and monster mothers. There are mothers of all mankind, like Mother Theresa and Princess Di, and there are mothers like my own Mrs Winterson, who on hearing the news that I had fallen in love with a girl, lay on the settee and said 'My varicose veins are going to burst.'
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Fat
Publication: The Guardian
This is an expanding universe and we are all getting fatter.
Last week's reports from health watchdogs had me reaching in a panic for the biscuit tin - just as I was about to eat every single Jaffa Cake, I knew I had to throw them all away. Comfort eating is over - actually eating is over. We had all better stop now, before it's too late.
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Marraiges
Publication: The Guardian
The row about arranged marriages is missing the point: This is more than an immigration issue or a cultural issue; it is a question of identity. The important decisions of our lives are the ones we need to make for ourselves. This is especially true for women, whose choices are often lost inside those of husband and family.
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Gay Marraiges
Publication: The Guardian
Last week I went into the House of Lords as a guest of Ruth Rendell, who was speaking in support of Lord Lester's Civil Partnership Bill.
This bill, dubbed by the tabloids as 'Gay Marriage', seeks to create a legal register where same sex and heterosexual couples can declare their commitment to each other, and so obtain both the benefits and the obligations of marriage.
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Women Priests
Publication: The Guardian
The Crown Appointments Commission is meeting to draw up a shortlist of Bishops, one of whom will be chosen by the Prime Minister to be the next archbishop of Canterbury.
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