However, women who are obese before pregnancy do not further increase their already high risk of lactation failure, regardless of their weight gain after conception. She is the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies at Cornell and co-director of the Cornell Gerontology Research Institute, which funded the study. And contrary to the traditional view, she says, women are just as likely as men to believe they have had a midlife crisis. One of the hidden costs of welfare reform, both at the federal and state levels, is addressed by a new study at Cornell University. The study also found that unemployed individuals who use alcohol to excess are at greater risk of committing family violence than the employed who abuse alcohol or nondrinkers, with the greatest risk among employed welfare recipients.
Most people are better judges of other people's moral character than they are of their own.
Participants in the survey consistently tended to overestimate their own generosity, but actually were quite accurate when predicting the generous behavior of others, according to Nicholas Epley, a graduate student of psychology, and David Dunning, a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. According to Friedan, most jobs are still based on the model of the employee with a non-working partner who takes care of the family and the details of life. But as the global economy has drawn increasing numbers of women into the paid labor force, this model is out of step with reality. In fact, it's getting longer. We still do not have a national child-care policy.