MARRIAGE
PROPOSALS
How many women will actually
get down on their knees on February 29.
Are modern, independent self sufficient women prepared to take
the plunge and go down on one knee?
According to a new poll by
handbag.com. It seems that modern, independent,
self-sufficient women will take the initiative in most areas of
their life except when it comes to the big M, where their traditional
values demand a man down on one knee.
So how did women vote in a generation where girls outperform boys
at school, more and more women are securing top-earning jobs and
are delaying having a family for an extended single life?
The poll
revealed that a staggering 91% of readers who are in a relationship
will not be proposing to their boyfriends this leap year.
Old-fashioned values - but why?
Alarmingly, 49% said they would
prefer seeing their man down on one knee, just how their fathers
had proposed to their mothers. In
fact, 90% of voters came from parents whose father had proposed
to their mother and seem to have embraced their old-fashioned values.
A quarter (24%) even felt that it was a 'man's place to do it',
whilst 20% of modern women felt it was too forward and would be
too scared of rejection.
Overall 60% of handbag.com's
single readers said they would never consider
proposing to a boyfriend on a leap year. A minority 36% said that
they
would propose regardless of whether it is a leap year.
Hopeless romantics
• Interestingly, 79% of readers who are not in a relationship said
they wish they were in one, proving that dynamic modern women are
not only traditional when it comes to proposing marriage but are
also hopeless romantics who would prefer to be wooed than single.
Marrieds - as traditional as Singles
• The
poll proved that married women are just as traditional as their
single
peers. A majority 79% did
not propose to their
husbands whilst a minority 21% did. From those who did propose,
over half (54%) felt it would have been more romantic if their
partner had proposed and 44% wished their husband had proposed
as they are more traditional now than they were back then.
So it seems married women are as romantic and traditional as
the single lot but are they any happier? A majority 64% confirmed
they are happily married whilst 36% said they are not.
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