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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>
</body>
</article>
</text>