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In some cultures, including Botswana [70] and Nigeria, [63] women can select a woman with whom she allows her husband to sleep with in hopes of conceiving a child. [63] Women who are desperate for children may compromise with her husband to select a woman and accept duties of taking care of the children to feel accepted and useful in society. [70]
It is also a normal state in women after menopause. In humans, infertility is the inability to become pregnant after at least one year of unprotected and regular sexual intercourse involving a male and female partner. [2] There are many causes of infertility, including some that medical intervention can treat. [3]
1970: Nawal El Saadawi criticizes FGM in Al-Mar'a wa Al-Jins (Women and Sex). [A 12] 1972: Saadawi's The Naked Face of Women describes her own circumcision. [A 13] 1975: UN International Women's Year. American social scientist Rose Oldfield Hayes calls it "female genital mutilation" in paper on Sudan. [A 14]
The average life expectancy for women is 80.2 years, per the CDC, which means women spend about a third of their life in this post-menopausal phase. So, while women live longer, on average, than ...
A growing number of women in the US are deciding not to have children — part of a trend that has been underway for more than a decade. But many say they still face judgment for their child-free ...
Why breastfeeding is so hard. Even when everything goes well, breastfeeding is taxing. In the very beginning, newborns typically get hungry every one to three hours. That means multiple feedings a ...
Infertility and childlessness stigmas are social and cultural codes that identify the inability to have children as a disgraceful state of being. Broadly speaking, in many cultures, "Demonstrating fertility is necessary to be considered a full adult, a real man or woman, and to leave a legacy after death," and thus the failure to make this demonstration is penalized. [1]
The demonstration was inspired by South Korea’s “4B” movement against gender-based violence where some women in that country have vowed to follow the four “no’s” — no sex, no dating ...