What Women Want – Picture of the Day – Kommersant

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Initially conceived as a day of solidarity in the struggle for equal rights and emancipation, later it became just a gender holiday dedicated to all women. Many have tried to answer the question of what they really want. noteworthy study This topic was discussed by American scientists who found out how women’s preferences changed when choosing a potential partner for almost seven decades. After conducting surveys and comparing them with historical data, they ranked the qualities they were looking for in descending order.

According to the results, in the first half of the 20th century, women primarily looked for maturity, reliability, and ambition (or hard work) in men. Beginning in the late 1970s, love came to the fore in importance. Since then, she has not given up her position. At the beginning of the 21st century, the top 3, in addition to her, includes the same maturity and reliability, which have consistently been among the most important male qualities in the entire history of observations. Over the past years, the role of education and sociability has visibly increased. After the failure in the 1970s, the desire to own a house and have children returned to high positions. Women began to pay more attention to appearance, less to ambitions and social status. Political, religious views, the ability to cook and housekeeping have never been highly rated.

Similar studies, albeit not in such a historical perspective, were also carried out in Russia. In particular, in 2021 survey VTsIOM top 5 desirable male qualities included honesty, reliability, decency, masculinity and fidelity. IN research 2022 from the Rabota.ru service, intellect came out on top. Also, a sense of humor, which was not covered by the American study, occupied a high position in it.