"Highly educated women react to employment uncertainty by adopting a 'postponement strategy,' especially if they are childless.

Postponement Postponement strategies are generally aimed at building skills and access to services which will postpone pregnancy.

"Strategically adjust safety stock policies, rationalize SKUs, revisit your sourcing plan, quantify your supply and demand uncertainty, and consider postponement strategies.

In a series of experiments, Mead and her colleagues found that this postponement strategy neither encourages guilt-ridden indulgence in an unhealthy treat nor does it encourage painful abstinence (which all too often leads to later bingeing).

It's not clear whether using the postponement strategy would work as a weight-loss method, Mead said, as focusing on the dieting aspect of postponement might, ironically, keep the temptation in your mind, where you have to fight it.

We are opposed to this new postponement strategy.