re: Help me with my nested if statements in java (self-learning Novice)

What you can do in situations like this is, right before the:
if(gender == female && married = yes)

block, print out the values of gender, female, married, and yes. This will let you see, from the program's perspective, what those values are and make sure they match up.

If they match up, it may be an issue of comparing strings. I'm not sure if java has different functions for strings like this or not, but I know C had strcmp() for comparing them.

Just by looking at it, I have a feeling the program is seeing a difference between declaring a variable as a string and reading one in from keyboard.next()