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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: More women than men
Message-ID: <5464@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 12:48:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 12:48:34 1985
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Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
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Summary: 

In article <262@timeinc.UUCP> Ross M. Greenberg writes:

>Regarding the reasons that women tend to sever the relationship more often
>than men:
>
>Women, on the other hand, had more men after them then they could possibly
>handle: generally turning down more dates than they accepted.  So breaking
>up from a not-so-perfect relationship did not mean that they were to
>be lonely on friday night. And so breaking up was not such a big deal.
>
>The situation hasn't changed much: men still do the majority of the
>initial asking and still take the initial risk of being turned down.
>Women still can get more dates than they can handle.  I'm talking
>quantity here, not quality, so no flames, okay?
>
>These are just my opinions, of course.  Your mileage may vary.
>
>Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York 
>              --------->{ihnp4 | vax135}!timeinc!greenber<---------
>

Well, Ross, this isn't MY experience  (except at a few computer conferences
:-).

There is a paperback out entitled .  Now, I haven't had the training to be very
critical about statistical methods, so all I will say in support of the
thesis is that it does match some of my perceptions with some reasonable
supporting data.  General disclaimer:  I read this book about a year
ago, and promptly recycled it to make room for more unread books.

Essentially, as we get older, there are FEWER men "available" for partnering
for a variety of sociological and biological reasons.  More female babies
were born, a higher childhood mortality rate for males, and a shorter life
expectancy for males in general are cited as the major biological reasons
(and they call US the weaker sex?).  The sociological reasons have to do
with girl-children being socialized to "marry up", combined with women
(particularly we baby-boomers) doing well in our own right, 
making "up" even higher, and therefore, decreasing further the number of
"available men".

I don't know how old you are Ross, but it seems it's only a matter of
time before your situation changes.  Or is it a matter of attitudes?

I didn't find anything too illuminating in the "what to do about it"
section, though it may provide some good suggestions for those of you
who want to investigate new ways of meeting singles. 

Moira Mallison 
tektronix!moiram