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...bachelor suddenly jilted his fiancée for another contestant in front an audience of more than 15 million viewers. No one watching was more shocked than Kennedy, the author of a new book - Left at the Altar: My Story of Hope and Healing for Every Woman Who Has Felt the Heartbreak of Rejection - about her own wedding trauma. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Kennedy at her home in Atlanta. (See pictures of the busiest wedding day in history...
...long was it before you completely got over that? Several years. Every time I'd start to date again, I'd compare everybody to him - the good parts, not the bad parts. So nobody ever lived up to that level of happiness that I had felt with him, which was so unfair because there were obviously aspects of him that I wouldn't want to have in a mate. The book is filled with other women's stories of rejection as well. I interviewed a lot of single women, and I kept hearing the same story. "Oh, we were dating...
...every employee in insecure industries has such a gloomy view, Burchell says. Entrepreneurs seem to thrive. In general, women fare better too. While reporting higher levels of anxiety than men when directly questioned, women scored lower in stress on the GHQ 12, even when they had a job they felt insecure about losing. As Burchell explains, "For women, most studies show that any job - it doesn't matter whether it is secure or insecure - gives psychological improvement over unemployment." Burchell hypothesizes that the difference in men is that they tend to feel pressure not only to be employed, but also...
...illusory sense of power, a team led by business professors Nathanael Fast and Deborah Gruenfeld of Stanford University devised a series of experiments. In the first, they recruited 38 students and divided them into three groups. They asked one group to write about an experience in which they felt they had control over other people, and another group to write about a time they felt out of control. The third group wrote nothing. All of the students were then given dice and told that if they correctly guessed the number they rolled, they would win $5. They were also given...
...opinions “anti-woman” and “anti-feminist”. Narefsky attended an event in the fall with a “Feminists for Life speaker” and said that she was dismayed by the comments. “I felt that women were talked about as though they were children or objects and not as though they were active, thinking adults,” she said. —Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman can be reached at segroopm@fas.harvard.edu