• what your surname says about you (if you’re a woman) This is kinda interesting. Something I wonder about a bit. New research says when a woman changes her surname when she gets married, or hyphenates it, she’s judged as more feminine, in the painfully stereotyped sense of the word. Surname-changers were seen as more dependent, less intelligent and less ambitious, according to the study by Tilburg more
• some happy relationship maths (and proof every woman needs a plumber) A couple of new UK studies out today have boiled down relationship success to a few simple stats. Totally fascinating, albeit overly generalised, stuff! (Anyone love relationship generalisations as much as me?) The spurious figures: * Women should be 27 per cent more intelligent: Of the 1,074 couples looked at aged between 19 and 75, more