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What do ladies like more than orgasms? Yes, ice cream, but, also: MULTIPLE ORGASMS. With this in mind, we asked relationship expert Issy Wharton and her sexy advice-giving friends to reveal how you could
6 Charts That Should Freak Out Every Single Young American
America has a youth unemployment problem on its hands. Millions of 20-somethings
can't find full-time work, according to the Center for American
Progress. That could have long-term consequences: a six-month period of
unemployment costs a person under 25 at least $45,000 in lost wages, the
Center noted in a report released Wednesday.
This isn't just a young-adult problem; it hurts everyone else too. Youth unemployment is poised to cost the U.S. some $18 billion over the next decade, according to an analysis last month by Bloomberg Senior Economist Joseph Bruseulas.
So how did we get here? The Great Recession dealt a particularly harsh blow to young people as unemployment rose, and employers opted for the abundance of job-seekers with more experience. As a result, nearly half of the nation's unemployed are under 34 years old, according to an April report from Demos.
Here are six charts from the Center for American Progress that will freak out any young person looking for work:
The unemployment rate for Americans 16-to-24 years old is 16.2 percent, more than double the 7.5 jobless rate for all Americans.
Millions of teens are out of work or underemployed.
This isn't just a young-adult problem; it hurts everyone else too. Youth unemployment is poised to cost the U.S. some $18 billion over the next decade, according to an analysis last month by Bloomberg Senior Economist Joseph Bruseulas.
So how did we get here? The Great Recession dealt a particularly harsh blow to young people as unemployment rose, and employers opted for the abundance of job-seekers with more experience. As a result, nearly half of the nation's unemployed are under 34 years old, according to an April report from Demos.
Here are six charts from the Center for American Progress that will freak out any young person looking for work:
The unemployment rate for Americans 16-to-24 years old is 16.2 percent, more than double the 7.5 jobless rate for all Americans.
Millions of teens are out of work or underemployed.
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More women embracing single-mother role, U.S. poll finds
As Christy Everson was nearing age 40, she made a decision: She wanted to have a child, even though she was single and it meant doing it all alone.
Her daughter, conceived via a sperm donor, is now 21/2 years old, and Everson hopes to have a second child.
“Was it worthwhile? Well, I’m thinking of doing it again, aren’t I?” she said.
Everson and women like her are part of a shift in American society. An Associated Press-WE TV poll of people under 50 found that more than two in five unmarried women without children — or 42 per cent — would consider having a child on their own without a partner, including more than a third, or 37 per cent, who would consider adopting solo.
ON THE RISE
The poll, which addressed a broad range of issues on America’s changing family structures, dovetails with a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau that single motherhood is on the rise: It found that of 4.1 million women who’d given birth in 2011, 36 per cent were unmarried at the time of the survey, an increase from 31 per cent in 2005. And among mothers aged 20 to 24, the percentage was 62 per cent, or six in 10 mothers.
The AP-WE poll also found that few Americans think the growing variety of family arrangements is bad for society.
QUALMS ABUNDANT
However, many have some qualms about single mothers, with nearly two-thirds — 64 per cent — saying single women having children without a partner is a bad thing for society. More men — 68 per cent — felt that way, compared to 59 per cent of women.
The survey found broad gender gaps in opinion on many issues related to how and when to have children.
One example: At a time when the can-you-have-it-all debate rages for working mothers, women were more apt than men to say having children has negatively impacted their career.
And this was true especially among mothers who waited until age 30 or older to have children. Fully 47 per cent of those mothers said having a child had a negative impact on their careers.
Of women overall, 32 per cent of mothers reported a negative effect, compared with 10 per cent of men.
‘HARD TO BE A ROCK STAR’
For Everson, who lives in a suburb of Minneapolis and now is 44, being the only parent means daily responsibilities that naturally suck up some of the time she used to spend on her career as a financial consultant.
“To be honest about it, it’s hard to be a rock star” when parenting a baby, she said.
But she sees it as more of a temporary career setback, and feels she’s already getting back on track with her toddler now over age 2. Soon, she says, “I’ll be getting back on my A-game.”
For Joyce Chen, a hospital occupational therapist in San Francisco, it’s a question of what kind of career she wants to have.
Chen, 41 and also a single mother, is happy to have work that she not only enjoys, but that she can balance easily with caring for her 10-year-old daughter.
SHE FEELS BLESSED
“I’ve been blessed,” she said. “I have a decent income. I don’t feel like I need to climb the ladder. I enjoy what I do, but I can leave it at the end of the day and not think about it.”
Chen also credits a strong community of friends from church for helping make her family work.
“That community has helped me raise my daughter,” she said. She hopes to get married one day if the right situation comes along.
But Chen feels that a single mom can do just as good a job of raising a child as two parents can.
Overall, the poll found decidedly mixed results on that question: Thirty per cent of respondents said yes, 27 per cent said no, and 43 per cent said “it depends.”
CSU's Cigui, Weikard earn All-America honors in singles and doubles
SKILLMAN, N.J. -- Columbus State University women's tennis
players Paola Cigui and Carolin Weikard have been named All-Americans in
both singles and doubles play by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association
Friday afternoon.
Cigui earns her second consecutive All-American honors as a singles and doubles player after finishing the year ranked second in the nation in singles action and fourth in doubles with Weikard.
In doubles, Cigui teamed up with Weikard to post a 22-3 record. All three losses came against top-10 opponents while the tandem also knocked off four ranked pairs.
Weikard also had a banner season for the Lady Cougars as she finished the year as the seventh ranked singles player in the nation earning All-American status.
Cigui earns her second consecutive All-American honors as a singles and doubles player after finishing the year ranked second in the nation in singles action and fourth in doubles with Weikard.
In doubles, Cigui teamed up with Weikard to post a 22-3 record. All three losses came against top-10 opponents while the tandem also knocked off four ranked pairs.
Weikard also had a banner season for the Lady Cougars as she finished the year as the seventh ranked singles player in the nation earning All-American status.
D.C. Ranked ‘America’s Best City for Women’
LANHAM, Md. (CBSDC) — If you’re a woman and you’re looking for a great place to live, it doesn’t get better than the nation’s capital, according to a report from a real estate blog.
Movoto, a blog covering the lighter side of real estate, named Washington, D.C. “America’s Best City for Women.”
The report surveyed and ranked the 100 most populous U.S. cities based on “socioeconomic factors like income and women’s health as well as some ‘fun stuff’ — shopping, personal care, and even the number of proverbial fish in the sea for single ladies who’re ready to mingle,” according to Movoto.
After all the number crunching, the District earned the top overall spot thanks to ranking in the top 25 in every category except percentage of divorced residents.
The city women should avoid the most? Wichita, Kan.
Each city was researched, surveyed and ranked using resources including Yelp and the U.S. Census based on the following six criteria:
Socioeconomic:
- Median income for women (compared to the cost of living)
- Percentage of single men
- Percentage of divorced residents
- Number of women’s health physicians
- Number of women’s clothing stores
- Number of salons
1. Washington, D.C.
2. Pittsburgh, Penn.
3. Santa Ana, Calif.
4. Anaheim, Calif.
5. San Francisco, Calif.
6. Oakland, Calif.
7. Detroit, Mich.
8. Orlando, Fla.
9. Seattle, Wash.
10. St. Louis, Mo.
A new generation of American talent announces arrival
Madison Keys came to Paris for the first time last week with a few
simple goals. Like all visitors, she and her friends wanted to hit at
least one tourist destination, maybe the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre. And
because Keys is no normal teenager on a gap-year trip, she wanted to
get through the French Open without falling and getting the famous red
clay on the muted colors of her clothes.
"It's, 'Oh my gosh, I'm at the French Open,'" Keys said. "I used to watch it on TV and now I'm here. It's a surreal moment. You want to be here when you're younger; then when you're actually there, it's, 'Am I dreaming? Because this is a cool dream.'"
The dream got a little better Monday when Keys, competing in her first French Open, beat Misaki Doi of Japan, 6-3, 6-2, in the first round. Keys, a bubbly 18-year-old with the powerful ground strokes of a midcareer professional, is one of eight American women who are in the second round, with three more to play Tuesday. American women went 6-1 Monday, which is particularly surprising because clay has long been considered a U.S. weakness.
There were 15 American women in the French Open main draw when play began Sunday, more than from any other country and the most in a Grand Slam draw outside of the U.S. Open since the 2005 Wimbledon, which had 17.
But there is a significant difference from that field. Only four players in the 2005 group were 23 or younger, and seven were 25 or older, portending an absence of top American prospects for nearly a decade. The 2013 group skews much younger: just four are 25 or older, including the Williams sisters, and nine are 23 or younger. Although only top-ranked Serena Williams is in the top 10, 12 American women are in the top 100.
The group that alighted on Paris, many of whom constitute Keys' planned sightseeing group, underscores how disparate the pipeline to tennis success has become. On Sunday, Shelby Rogers, 20, who decided to forgo college to turn pro and had struggled in recent months until she earned a wild card to the French Open, won her first-round match. So did Mallory Burdette, 22, who is ranked 80th but at this time last year was playing in the NCAA tennis tournament for Stanford.
"If you had told me that a year ago, I would say you were absolutely crazy," Burdette said.
It is still a long way from the most successful days of U.S. tennis. In 1983, 56 American women were at the French Open. No country may ever regain that level of dominance. More countries are producing at least a few quality players, and the U.S. emphasis on team sports for women has spread the country's best athletes among many disciplines. Chris Evert recalled that when she was a teenager, the choices for girls who wanted to play sports were tennis, golf or an Olympic sport like ice skating or swimming.
In May 2011, for the first time in the nearly 40 years since computerized rankings were used, the United States had no man or woman in the top 10 in singles in the world. The U.S. tennis firmament, particularly the U.S. Tennis Association, was criticized for failing to cultivate the future of the game.
"There was a generation that was missed," said Evert, a seven-time French Open champion who is working here as an ESPN analyst. "And I think that there was definitely a gap. There was always that slew I saw of 12- to 16-year-olds. We skipped the 16- to 21-year-olds when Serena and Venus were coming up, after they made their mark. But now that 12-to-16-year-old slew of women has emerged."
Reaching that critical mass of ranked players was central to Patrick McEnroe's plan when he took over as the USTA's general manager for player development five years ago. On his first trip to the USTA training center in Boca Raton, Fla., after taking the job, McEnroe looked around and saw only two girls training there. He said he asked a coach where everybody was, and was told that most of the girls were scattered around the country, training independently.
Before he took the job, McEnroe said, he believed that talent would rise to the top, no matter who prepared them. But he looked at successful programs around the world and changed his mind. Now, he said, he believes that an organized effort, in which promising players are brought together more often to train and practice, produces more contenders. Many of the younger women who are playing in Paris work at least some of the time with the USTA.
The system has done everything from help to improve Burdette's fitness to create a strong peer group that roots for and challenges its members. Before the French Open, several American women said they were inspired by the success of 54th-ranked Jamie Hampton, who reached the semifinals in a clay-court tournament in Brussels last week.
"We've seen in the history of tennis, when you get a good group of players, they tend to steamroll a little bit," McEnroe said in a telephone interview. "We're starting to see the beginning of that. Our main goal has always been let's increase the numbers, and the great one will come. I don't look at Switzerland, where they have one unbelievable player. I look at Russia on the women's side, where they have tons of players in the top 100 and a few top players."
"It's, 'Oh my gosh, I'm at the French Open,'" Keys said. "I used to watch it on TV and now I'm here. It's a surreal moment. You want to be here when you're younger; then when you're actually there, it's, 'Am I dreaming? Because this is a cool dream.'"
The dream got a little better Monday when Keys, competing in her first French Open, beat Misaki Doi of Japan, 6-3, 6-2, in the first round. Keys, a bubbly 18-year-old with the powerful ground strokes of a midcareer professional, is one of eight American women who are in the second round, with three more to play Tuesday. American women went 6-1 Monday, which is particularly surprising because clay has long been considered a U.S. weakness.
There were 15 American women in the French Open main draw when play began Sunday, more than from any other country and the most in a Grand Slam draw outside of the U.S. Open since the 2005 Wimbledon, which had 17.
But there is a significant difference from that field. Only four players in the 2005 group were 23 or younger, and seven were 25 or older, portending an absence of top American prospects for nearly a decade. The 2013 group skews much younger: just four are 25 or older, including the Williams sisters, and nine are 23 or younger. Although only top-ranked Serena Williams is in the top 10, 12 American women are in the top 100.
The group that alighted on Paris, many of whom constitute Keys' planned sightseeing group, underscores how disparate the pipeline to tennis success has become. On Sunday, Shelby Rogers, 20, who decided to forgo college to turn pro and had struggled in recent months until she earned a wild card to the French Open, won her first-round match. So did Mallory Burdette, 22, who is ranked 80th but at this time last year was playing in the NCAA tennis tournament for Stanford.
"If you had told me that a year ago, I would say you were absolutely crazy," Burdette said.
It is still a long way from the most successful days of U.S. tennis. In 1983, 56 American women were at the French Open. No country may ever regain that level of dominance. More countries are producing at least a few quality players, and the U.S. emphasis on team sports for women has spread the country's best athletes among many disciplines. Chris Evert recalled that when she was a teenager, the choices for girls who wanted to play sports were tennis, golf or an Olympic sport like ice skating or swimming.
In May 2011, for the first time in the nearly 40 years since computerized rankings were used, the United States had no man or woman in the top 10 in singles in the world. The U.S. tennis firmament, particularly the U.S. Tennis Association, was criticized for failing to cultivate the future of the game.
"There was a generation that was missed," said Evert, a seven-time French Open champion who is working here as an ESPN analyst. "And I think that there was definitely a gap. There was always that slew I saw of 12- to 16-year-olds. We skipped the 16- to 21-year-olds when Serena and Venus were coming up, after they made their mark. But now that 12-to-16-year-old slew of women has emerged."
Reaching that critical mass of ranked players was central to Patrick McEnroe's plan when he took over as the USTA's general manager for player development five years ago. On his first trip to the USTA training center in Boca Raton, Fla., after taking the job, McEnroe looked around and saw only two girls training there. He said he asked a coach where everybody was, and was told that most of the girls were scattered around the country, training independently.
Before he took the job, McEnroe said, he believed that talent would rise to the top, no matter who prepared them. But he looked at successful programs around the world and changed his mind. Now, he said, he believes that an organized effort, in which promising players are brought together more often to train and practice, produces more contenders. Many of the younger women who are playing in Paris work at least some of the time with the USTA.
The system has done everything from help to improve Burdette's fitness to create a strong peer group that roots for and challenges its members. Before the French Open, several American women said they were inspired by the success of 54th-ranked Jamie Hampton, who reached the semifinals in a clay-court tournament in Brussels last week.
"We've seen in the history of tennis, when you get a good group of players, they tend to steamroll a little bit," McEnroe said in a telephone interview. "We're starting to see the beginning of that. Our main goal has always been let's increase the numbers, and the great one will come. I don't look at Switzerland, where they have one unbelievable player. I look at Russia on the women's side, where they have tons of players in the top 100 and a few top players."
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