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- NATION, Page 26Odds & Trends
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- Some Things Women Are Less Likely to Do Than Men:
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- -- Flip channels during a TV program (17% of women do, 22%
- of men).
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- -- End a friendship should they discover the friend is
- homosexual (28% of young women would, 54% of men).
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- -- Be in a traffic accident (63% of all reported accidents
- involve male drivers).
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- -- Receive a pension (23% of women do, 46% of men).
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- -- Buy junk food (in 61% of households, men choose the
- snacks).
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- Some Things Women Are More Likely to Do Than Men:
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- -- Earn a bachelor's or master's degree (women earn 51.9%
- of these degrees).
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- -- Buy a greeting card (women account for 90% of card
- purchases).
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- -- Take dictation (99% of all secretaries are women).
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- -- Vote in presidential elections (in 1988, 58.3% of
- eligible women voted, 56.4% of men).
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- -- Take vitamins (39% of women do, 27% of men).
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- I Do, for Now
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- -- An estimated one-half to two-thirds of women who married
- in the 1980s will divorce.
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- -- Couples who live together before getting married are more
- likely to divorce within 10 years than couples who don't.
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- -- More women (43%) than men (31%) approve of divorce for
- unhappily married couples with young children.
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- -- Fewer women (37%) than men (50%) say it is better to be
- married than to go through life single.
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- -- 40% of female high school seniors don't consider it very
- likely that they'll be married to the same person for life.
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- Why Jane Fonda Is Rich
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- Twice as many women ages 30 to 64 as men think they are
- overweight. In one University of California study, 58% of
- 17-year-old girls said they were overweight; only 17% actually
- were.
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- They Don't Do Ovens
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- Husbands may be doing more of the dirty work at home -- 20%
- of the cooking, cleaning and laundry, up from 8% in 1965 -- but
- they have their limits. Take oven cleaning . . . please. The
- Roper Organization reports that this most widely disliked
- household chore is also one of the two chores least performed
- by men (the other is ironing).
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- Working Stiffed
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- You won't run into too many male RNs -- 94% are women -- but
- if you do, chances are he'll be smiling. He earns 10% more than
- female nurses. And the 2% of all construction workers who are
- women earn 25% less than male hardhats.
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- Why Women Skip Breakfast
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- Dermatologist Paul Lazar of Northwestern University Medical
- School found that women use 17 to 21 grooming products every
- morning.
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- Taking The Fifth
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- In an American Bar Association survey, 20% of female lawyers
- admitted to having at least six alcoholic drinks a day, compared
- with 11% of male lawyers. But who's making the full disclosure?
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- Have Son, Will Not Travel
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- The parents of sons are less likely to separate or divorce
- than couples who have only daughters. The reason? University of
- Pennsylvania researchers say fathers are more involved with sons
- and concerned about providing a role model.
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- WARNING
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- THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH ON THE JOB FOR WOMEN IS HOMICIDE.
- OF WOMEN FATALLY HURT AT WORK FROM 1980 TO 1985, 42% WERE
- MURDERED, 64% BY GUN. AMONG MEN, ACCIDENTS ARE THE TOP
- OCCUPATIONAL KILLER; HOMICIDES ACCOUNT FOR JUST 12%.
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- [Sources: Center for the American Woman and Politics, Rutgers
- University (1988 voting statistics); Rodale Press; Girl Scouts
- of the U.S.A.; Hallmark Cards Inc.; The Gallup Organization
- Inc.; Cosmopolitan/Battelle (I Do, for Now); Wider Opportunities
- for Women; Americans' Use of Time Project; Times Mirror Center
- for the People & the Press; Centers for Disease Control.]
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