Do bullets make this easier to read, or are they merely irksome?

[dreamer_easy]

• One in 10 young women polled by Grazia magazine have taken illicit drugs to lose weight.

• A study by the AMP and the University of Canberra cheers the closing of the wage gap for Australian women in their 20s and 30s, but lists the many reasons for the huge differences in lifetime earnings, from child-rearing to the glass ceiling. Of interest to Miranda Devine may be their findings that:

"Women with children employed full-time spend on average 78 hours a week in paid and unpaid work, while full-time working men with children spend only 74 hours a week working. These women are spending on average 15 hours a week cooking and cleaning while the men are spending only six hours a week. A part-time working mother spends 23 hours a week with the kids and 20 hours on the housework while a part-time working father spends 14 hours with the kids and nine hours on housework."

• The John Barrowman episode of The Making of Me was broadcast on BBC America with some very suspicious edits.

Comments

Bullets

[hermaj.livejournal.com]

For the elderly and infirm such as I, bullets make things much easier to read.

[alawston.livejournal.com]

One in 10 young women polled by Grazia magazine

I call stat shenanigans.

First, it says a lot more about readers of Grazia magazine than it does about young women as a species. So they're really saying that 1 in 10 of the sort of young woman who regularly reads a vapid fashion magazine takes drugs to lose weight. This is less than shocking.

Then there's also the fact that cocaine and speed have effects additional to aiding weight loss. They're lifestyle/party drugs and most of the people I know (across both genders) who take them are in it for the euphoria rather than the waistline.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Obviously this is a self-selected sample (so obviously I didn't point it out!). Hopefully more info will be available from the Grazia Web site tomorrow, but the news item states that the women took the drugs specifically to help them lose weight.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Wasn't speed used back in the early-to-mid 20th century as a diet pill?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Notoriously, yeah. Lots of resulting addictions.

[hexacontium.livejournal.com]

I am rather shocked by these numbers above. 15 hours on agerage cooking and cleaning *eek* I can understand that having children means more work but if you are short of time prioritizing can be so important. On average Mr.Hexa spends about 6 hours cooking and cleaning per week while I work. We eat healthy food and it's clean enough. Perfect. Lots of time to do nice things. But then we're not pretending to be housefairies. *rolleyes*

[ajponder.livejournal.com]

Be shocked. Having children is hard work, they drag dirt from one end of the house to the other, spill food, break things, dirty their clothes -- young kids can require multiple changes a day and have to be dressed, there's extra beds to air and change, $$$ are always tight so that can mean more food preparation - and cleaning up afterwards, and it also often means living in crappier houses which are more difficult to clean.
Seriously 15 hours is nothing, and yet for a single couple 6-7 hours yeah - I kindof even remember those days... and I'm seriously looking forward to them again! Prioritise ! huh!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Whenever I'm with parents of young kids I'm staggered by the non-stop attention the littlies require, especially once they're mobile. I'd go stark raving mad in the face of it. Any other kind of work you can take your eyes off for a few minutes without risking disaster.

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

• 'Option' bullets are pretty small...

You can get prettier ones by using < li >.

[ajponder.livejournal.com]

I think mostly you don't need to bother with bullets - set out is enough - except in this case where you have two p/graphs on the same topic (the AMP/Canberra U study) - it then becomes useful as a visual aide to say the two p/graphs are linked

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Yup. This. =:o}