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Thank you for your help in gathering this important information. Please complete as many questionnaires as you would like. The Women's Realities Study will remain open indefinitely, and you are welcome to return to it at any point. All anonymous data gathered from the women who respond to the Women's Realities Study is to be used exclusively toward the goal of publishing a collection of their narratives into a book by Joyce McFadden, CSW, NCPsyA. Click on the link to take each questionnaire. It will open in another window on this page, and leave you back at this page when you are done.
Please be sure to click on "DONE" at the end of each questionnaire when you are finished completing to ensure that your data is recorded.
Click here to read samples of some of the responses. All samples chosen will be very general so as to protect anonymity.
LIFE TRANSITIONS	RELATIONSHIPS	SEXUALITY
Menstruation Pregnancy Childbirth Perimenopause Menopause Postmenopause Aging Grief	With your mother With your father With your sister/s With your brother/s With childhood girlfriends With your adult girlfriends With men	Masturbation Orgasm Loss of virginity Sexuality in adolescence Sexuality in the single woman Sexuality in the married woman/ woman in long term relationship
LOVE RELATIONSHIPS/ GOOD & BAD	MOTHERING	VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN/GIRLS
Marriage Long term committed relationships without marriage Affairs Separation Divorce	Being a mother Being a stepmother Being a grandmother/great-grandmother Relationship with your daughter/s Relationship with your son/s Adoption	Sexual abuse Physical abuse Rape Verbal Abuse Sexual harassment
SINGLE WOMEN	CAREER/EMPLOYMENT	LESBIANS/BISEXUALS
SINGLE WOMEN	CAREER/EMPLOYMENT	LESBIANS/BISEXUALS
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH	FERTILITY/INFERTILITY	WOMEN WHO HAVE NOT HAD CHILDREN
Depression Anxiety Eating disorders Alcohol and substance abuse Postpartum depression Heart disease Female cancers AIDS/HIV Sexually transmitted diseases Gynecological conditions	Abortion pre-Roe v. Wade Abortion post-Roe v. Wade Miscarriage Stillborn baby Giving up baby for adoption Assisted reproduction	Inability to have children Not having children by choice
APPEARANCE	WRAP UP
Physical appearance Body image Medical procedures Thoughts on the marketing of beauty	4 FINAL QUESTIONS BEFORE SURVEY COMPLETION
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