Upscale, full-service day spas across the country pamper women (and men) with all sorts of face and body treatments. It doesn't have to be Mother's Day to treat yourself or your mom.
Angela Merkel, the first woman to become chancellor of Germany, has displaced Condoleezza Rice as No. 1 on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women.
Which of the differences between the sexes are 'biological' and which are 'cultural' or 'environmental' and might more easily be altered by changed circumstances, is still fiercely debated.
A new study by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, suggests it may be a simple supply-and-demand issue: there are more beautiful women in the world than there are handsome men.