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• Warren Farrell: Men and women make 25 different work-life choices. Each leads to men earning more money; and each leads to women having better lives.

• In most fields men still do earn more for the same job title. For example, technically, male doctors earn more than female doctors. But male and female doctors behave very differently. The man is more likely to be the surgeon (vs. GP or psychiatrist), work in private practice (vs. HMOs), work hours that are longer and less predictable, for more years. It is only when everything is equal that the women earn the same or more. I used to teach at the School of Medicine at the University of California in San Diego. I saw my female students even in their first year expressing preference for shorter, more predictable hours, and a desire to avoid surgery.
  

• Women who have never been married and are without children earn 117% of their male counterparts.
  

• Women who own their own businesses earn only 49% of male business owners. That is, women make 80% of what men make when their bosses are usually men, but 49% when their bosses are themselves.
  

• When the Rochester Institute of Technology surveyed business owners, they discovered money was the primary motivator for only 29% of the women, vs. 76% of the men. Women wanted flexibility with family opportunities, freedom, control, no commute.

63% of girls would rather be glamour models than nurses.

Wooing girls with costly, but essentially worthless gifts ? such as theatre tickets or expensive dinners out ? is a winning courtship strategy for both sexes.