Women Around the World

Upon reading through the recent (May ‘05) issue of Esquire Magazine, I was quickly intrigued by the article entitled “The Global Survey of the Female Species.” They completed a survey in which they interviewed 11,000 women from 15 countries around the globe in an attempt to find differences, commonalities, and interesting details among the data in which their readers would be interested. Some of the details I find to be somewhat shocking, while other data is somewhat indicative of their specific culture.

An example of this would be how the majority of American women prefer to be taken to dinner on a first date, but this is vastly different in other countries. In Sweden, 32% prefer a coffeehouse, 29% in Slovenia prefer “a walk”, 28% prefer a bar in the United Kingdom, 12% prefer a house party in Spain, and 7% chose a religious function in Indonesia.

Regarding the issue of a “one-night stand”, most respondents chose the “sometimes a good idea” choice, except for two nations: 61% of Russian women chose that it is “often a good idea”, whereas Indonesian women answered to the contrary with 71% opting for the “never a good idea” choice.

These statistics can mostly be related to the specific culture being evaluated as some are more religiously-based and others are more sexually carefree. As a female, I found this article to be interesting as it evaluates the preferences/views of women throughout the world.