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| http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Abundance-Journal-Gratitude-Breathnach/dp/B000IAZOZS/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275746852&sr=1-20
A daily journal for counting one's blessings, specifically intended for women. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65B/5/609.abstract
The authors report that while retirement may come more as a relief than as a stressor for individuals previously experiencing high levels of work demands interfering with family life, retirement may not relieve the burdens of family life stressors, particularly among women. |
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| BBI Media, $22.00/year
http://www.cronemagazine.com/
A magazine that explores the gifts and concerns of women who seek to fully embrace Earth’s cycles of life and death and transformation. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/97/5/866/
The authors found that women (but not men) with the lowest degrees of religiousness through adulthood had shorter lives than did women who were more religious - largely attributable to differences in personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120083089/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Sointu and Woodhead argue that “holistic spiritualities align with traditional spheres and representations of femininity, while simultaneously supporting and encouraging a move away from selfless to expressive selfhood,” accounting for the greater involvement of women in “holistic spirituality.” |
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| http://www.emptynestmoms.com/index.html, Free
A website for, you guessed it, empty nest moms. The site is reasonably informative, if you dig around enough, and it can lead to other good resources. It also offers forums and chat, and they will help you set up a local chapter, if you want to. |
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| Boston College Center for Retirement Research, December 2010, Free
http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Working_Papers/wp_2010-22.pdf
Bosworth and Burtless find essentially no evidence that fluctuations in the prime-age unemployment rate have an important or systematic effect on the labor force participation rates of women past age 55, though it has a noticeable impact on the participation rate of older men. |
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| Fairview Press, 2003, $19.95
http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Lives-Legacies-Blessings-Generations/dp/157749119X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288206891&sr=1-1
Shows women how to create an enduring document that expresses who they are, what they value, and how they want to be remembered. |
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| http://www.womenemployed.org/index.php?id=75, Free
Provides a lot of information and an active network for women with job-related problems, with special emphasis on sexual harassment and discrimination. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/64B/1/77
The authors have measured women’s expectations about retirement over a seven-year period and found significant fluctuations in individuals over that time, suggesting that capturing people’s feelings at multiple time points prior to retirement may provide a truer picture. |