Posted on 11/01/2013 12:45:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new survey suggests that marriage is actually more important to men than it is to women. In fact, just since last year, the number of women who say their definition of success is not linked to marriage (or relationships at all) has nearly doubled.
According to the third Professional Women Report (h/t the Atlantic), a survey of over 1,000 male and female professionals released yesterday by LinkedIn and Citi, 9 percent of women say that marriage and relationships do not factor into their consideration of success, compared to 5 percent last year.
It turns out that men are more likely than women to equate marriage with success: a quarter of women polled said that being in a strong, loving relationship would constitute having it all, and the distinction of being married was unnecessary a position that only 14 percent of men agree with. 79 percent of men equate having it all with being in a strong, loving marriage, versus 66 percent of women.
Of course, this could also just be further evidence that men tend to have less nuanced perspectives on "having it all," because they're never really asked about it.
This is really a area big for that (DC-Baltimore) , no wonder our government(s) here are solid Democrat.
Years back on dating websites I would get wimmin posting “I dont even meet men unless they believe in ‘the woman's Right to Choose (abortion)”, almost all libs,
My theory goes:
1) Lots of government jobs for women, good paying ones, and colleges here prefer women. Diversity rules.
2) Punitive child support laws, (births=21 years of $$$) they take away the mans drivers license then they arrest him for driving to his ordered child support hearings.
The geography of that single mother phenomenon is more related to the “Great Society” making a man in the home a disqualifier for benefit, and having ever more babies to derive benefits more profitable.
Those B-W corridor single mother women are not the success/career driven types targeted in this poll. Your GS is.
I see that was ambiguous. I meant it makes sense to me that marriage is now more important to men than women.
LOL! Annuity plan... I like it, so true.
I wouldn’t know about that. Marriage is a lifelong commitment. I’ve been married 30 years to the love of my life. She’s everything to me and she’s the only woman I’ll ever be with until I die.
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Married women live longer than men because
they want to.
I fervently hope you NEVER know about that.
Not all of them. My wife had been widowed twice before I met her (widowed only once for me). She insists that this time she gets to go first.
“If something happened to Mrs Clamper ... I would never ever get married again”
I wouldn’t either; having started a family, I wouldn’t feel right starting another (I owe our children better than that). If I didn’t have children I might feel differently.
She has a really decent college education and she specifically used it to get a secure nothing GS job because work is just a paycheck to her and pay and benefits are good esp for what she does.
She got paid for being off both this shutdown and the ones in 1996/1995.
She told me only suckers work at real jobs, she has a sense of humor which is why we are friends.
And as I said she planned to have a baby and just went online to find a male donor who was obviously attracted to some sex as most men are(he didnt know what she was up to). Planned single Mom
Guys don’t want to take care of OTHER guys’ babies. Simple as that. They don’t want others having sex with their woman.
And as far as I am aware, most women still don’t want other women having sex with their man.
Same here. Marriage is great to experience, but one ride is enough for this cowboy.
They wish.
Women live longer than men because men generally do not treat women the way women treat men.
I knew a professional woman who purposely became pregnant as the bio time clock was about to go off. No one I’ve ever met was less suited for motherhood. She took her son to every museum and art gallery but never to a sporting event. Never signed him up for any kind of team or scouts, nor did she ever teach him about cleaning up after himself. The end product was a mess.
By high school she was counting off the exact number of days till he’d graduate and she’d be free of him. Irony of all ironies: she died a week before his h.s. graduation.
That's because "is your definition of success also linked to your being married" is a stupid question. The way our ladies are indoctrinated, this is no way to ask such a question.
I'd settle for a nice simple: "Would you like some day to be married?"
“Years back on dating websites I would get wimmin posting I dont even meet men unless they believe in the woman’s Right to Choose (abortion), almost all libs,”
White liberal women deserve the extinction of their race.
Man’s choice is: Marriage or financial slavery and rarely being able to see your kids.
Woman’s choice is: Marriage or receive child support, possibly alimony, possibly gov’t assistance, and able to see your kids most of the time.
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