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Show Post Poll Reveals Beliefs of Women An average of 77 per cent of married women in America and 76 per cent of the single girls approve of birth control, regardless regard-less of their religious beliefs, an extensive national survey published pub-lished in the Saturday Evening Post revealed. Surveyors in th poll conducted exclusively for the Post by the famous Dr. George Gallup and Evan Hill discovered that some women were disappointed that the study wasn't devoted exclusively exclu-sively to sex, which was only mentioned in 7 out of 207 questions ques-tions asked women. Women disagree with the theory the-ory that sex is responsible for most divorces. Few even mentioned men-tioned sexual incompatibility as a case for divorce. The overwhelming over-whelming majority listed lack of cooneration, stubbornness and unwillingness to compromise as major causes of marriage breakups. break-ups. Wives complain most about the untidiness of their husbands, and single girls bitterly describe American men as "inconsiderate, untruthful, insincere, egotistical, and lacking understanding." American women are perfectly perfect-ly content with their lives, enjoy motherhood and don't mind be- man must be the leader. Typical observations were: "being subordinate sub-ordinate to men is part of being feminine. A woman needs a master mas-ter slave relationship. Women who ask f o requality are fighting nature. Yet, responsibilities of women are clearly defined and a majority ma-jority handle family finances, decide which church to join and what neighborhood to live in J once the husband makes choice of the town. The "say so" about schooling for children is evenly divided, but husbands rule in selecting automobiles, houses, and large appliances and which candidate to vote for. ing the second sex. The Post survey shatters the stereotype of the lonely, lazy, over-worked, frigid and bored woman. On the contrary, the typical American female is serene, secure, se-cure, happy and just glad she's a woman, according to Dr. Gallup Gal-lup and Hijl, who found that the woman talks and worries about and works at her strongly rooted life's purpose of home and family. fam-ily. "She rarely loses her protective protec-tive family mother instinct even when the children are grown. Motherhood is her happiness if she has it and her despair if she does not." One major problem discovered in the study is that most women are not preparing for the "empty years" after the children have grown and left home. The typical woman in "superb optimism or narrow shortsightedness" lives from day to day, letting the future fu-ture take care of itself, unaware of the lonely years ahead. More Jewish women oppose religiously mixed marriage than Catholics or Protestants, it was found, but protests were based not on religious conviction but the belief that mixed marriages do not work. Most women believe that the |
