Meditation or Medication? Today’s Plague of Pill-popping

An estimated 80 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, according to the American Chronic Pain Association, but women experience pain more often and with greater intensity. Research also shows men and women respond differently to pain medications, and in fact use separate mechanisms in the brain to achieve pain relief.

Gender Balance: What Women Bring to the Table

Thirty years ago, statistics showed that fifty percent of the college graduates in the United States were women. Thirty years later, women still only hold a small percentage of leadership positions in government, business and industry. This means that women’s voices are not heard in the decisions that most affect our lives.

Warren Buffett said recently in an interview in Fortune Magazine, “ For most of our history, women—whatever their abilities—have been relegated to the sidelines.” Mr. Buffet points at the amazing progress that has been made even when society has used only 50% of its human potential by sidelining women. He says, “If you visualize what 100% can do, you’ll join me as an unbridled optimist about America’s future…Women are a major reason we will do so well.”