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- <text id=90TT2963>
- <title>
- Nov. 08, 1990: Odds & Trends
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 08, 1990 Special Issue - Women:The Road Ahead
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 26
- Odds & Trends
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Some Things Women Are Less Likely to Do Than Men:
- </p>
- <p>-- Flip channels during a TV program (17% of women do, 22%
- of men).
- </p>
- <p>-- End a friendship should they discover the friend is
- homosexual (28% of young women would, 54% of men).
- </p>
- <p>-- Be in a traffic accident (63% of all reported accidents
- involve male drivers).
- </p>
- <p>-- Receive a pension (23% of women do, 46% of men).
- </p>
- <p>-- Buy junk food (in 61% of households, men choose the
- snacks).
- </p>
- <p> Some Things Women Are More Likely to Do Than Men:
- </p>
- <p>-- Earn a bachelor's or master's degree (women earn 51.9%
- of these degrees).
- </p>
- <p>-- Buy a greeting card (women account for 90% of card
- purchases).
- </p>
- <p>-- Take dictation (99% of all secretaries are women).
- </p>
- <p>-- Vote in presidential elections (in 1988, 58.3% of
- eligible women voted, 56.4% of men).
- </p>
- <p>-- Take vitamins (39% of women do, 27% of men).
- </p>
- <p> I Do, for Now
- </p>
- <p>-- An estimated one-half to two-thirds of women who married
- in the 1980s will divorce.
- </p>
- <p>-- Couples who live together before getting married are more
- likely to divorce within 10 years than couples who don't.
- </p>
- <p>-- More women (43%) than men (31%) approve of divorce for
- unhappily married couples with young children.
- </p>
- <p>-- Fewer women (37%) than men (50%) say it is better to be
- married than to go through life single.
- </p>
- <p>-- 40% of female high school seniors don't consider it very
- likely that they'll be married to the same person for life.
- </p>
- <p> Why Jane Fonda Is Rich
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> They Don't Do Ovens
- </p>
- <p> 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).
- </p>
- <p> Working Stiffed
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> Why Women Skip Breakfast
- </p>
- <p> Dermatologist Paul Lazar of Northwestern University Medical
- School found that women use 17 to 21 grooming products every
- morning.
- </p>
- <p> Taking The Fifth
- </p>
- <p> 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?
- </p>
- <p> Have Son, Will Not Travel
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> WARNING
- </p>
- <p> 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%.
- </p>
- <p>[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.]
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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