Trust The New Yorker to have an interesting article…but have the font so small on the website, you practically go blind trying to read it! The trouble was well worth the effort for this piece talking about what women want!
According to Michael Silverstein, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group, in Chicago: Women want to be Swedish! “The best place in the world for women to live is Sweden,” said Silverstein. “There is virtually no gender discrimination there. Men and women live as equals.” Yayy
Silverstein also talks about particular findings regarding New York women.
“Women in New York have enormous issues with money, enormous issues with time,” he observed. “They are more likely to get divorced, and they are more troubled about finding love.” Only seventeen per cent of New York women rate themselves “highly satisfied” with their sex lives, compared with twenty per cent nationally and twenty-five per cent globally.
On the other hand, New York women have more friends than anyone else on the planet: the average New Yorker would invite at least sixty-five friends to her wedding, compared with a national average of fifty-nine.
Called upon to explain this phenomenon, Silverstein remembered a recent visit to a New York Bikram-yoga studio. “I have been to Bikram yoga all over the country, and this was the friendliest, most conversational, most open yoga class I have ever been to—like, in a different category,” he said. “I have been there twice, and the instructor knows me by name. I have been to the studio in Chicago forty times, and the instructor doesn’t know me.”
Read the whole piece at The New Yorker.
