Why Can't Women Make Their Minds Up ?

What do women want ? As a man this is a question you spend your life not working this out. You follow clues , you take them literally and then metaphorically, but the shy fawn , “what she wants “, skits away in the dappled shadows of the wood . And then ..and then; there is that terrible suspicion that should you ever locate the mercurial creature it will metamorphosise in your hands into a gorgeously plumed bird, and fly off as you stare hopelessly at a receding speck against the sun. ..where was I ..oh yes....

Women not only cannot decide, but they seems to want impossible combinations of rewards . Men, who can lick their own eyebrows are likely to remain popular then . But seriously ,consider the evidence.

Women still overwhelmingly want to get married. In 2005 only 12 out of every 1000 singletons tied the knot . A record low ,and yet 75% of co-habiting people say that they want the rice and cake .Then why don`t they do it ? I `ll tell you why not . Women.

OK I have no evidence but men in these matters grunt with the looming sexuality of a young Marlon Brando and go along . Its the women who can’t decide. Children now ,career later , IVF soon , more career, ,thawing out an embryo from the arctic perma-frost embryo at 60, its endless . There are now more first time mothers between 34 and 34 than between25 and 29. Men wait disconsolately outside the bathroom of life, for them to make their minds up.

Today the fatherhood institute says that fathers feel their role is undervalued .75% of men feel the mother`s role with a child is valued more than theirs. About the same proportion of women way that the father is equally good with the children . They “say” that . I say they speak with forked tongue, and in practice the courts don’t give the notion the time of day. You see what this is about don’t you , ask women if men should do as much house work, and they say yes . Ask them, seriously, if the father should have the children and the house, and they say ,“mais non monsieur “, its confuses us terribly .

What about sexual morality? 40,244 abortions were carried out on girls aged between 15 and 19 last year. 3990 of the on girls under the age of consent . You look at the role models for teenage girls, and is it any surprise . Jordan , a “Glamour model “and slut , Posh spice , a talent less oik .Women’s rights are pretty academic when a baby at the hip is as much of a prestige item around some schools as a Chloe handbag. Suggest to women, however, that they have a particular need to be careful; about their “virtue”, in that quaint phrase, and whammo , an Amazonian spear buries itself in your spine. The low rape conviction rate is shocking yes, but short of making men guilty by association with a penis, the only cure is for women to be careful. ….ouch…. not another one !
Women still want to cuddle babies and yet they also want to follow work friendly Spartan regimes like Claire ( I don’t understand why anybody needs to touch a baby) ,Verity’s, which suggest a boot camp approach” YEooo are ceerying ,leeike a little baby . Deeoo you miss your mommy !”. And then when Claire Verity turns up to give a talk at Earls court what do the women do ,protest .

Ah yes ,those precious wee packets of theoretical joy .Professor Alison Booth conducted a study about whether the patter of tiny feet delivered the happiness goods and found misery. Between the ages of three and five women with babies were less happy than those without them , ok they pick up later but that when the kid has gone to school…sigh

There have been a number of reports out recently that are suggesting women are fed up because men don’t do enough house work. Cambridge University studied 30,000 , finding that an EU women in full, time work does an average of a 68 hour week that’s 13 more than the man, and this is because they still do the bulk of household chores. So presumably what women want is for men to do the ironing and washing up. Oh no! Women create a culture of ‘just so’ around the whole footling business that stretches it ad nauseum and makes it impossible for men to “Do it well enough “ . So who excludes men from the domestic environment ? Women. If men were allowed to attack it the way they would anything else , it would get done .

Women insist they are better at multi tasking and nurturing than men . They will not admit that men are sometimes better at strategy and problem solving . They smashed glass ceilings in the eighties and then decided that they did not want to be Shirley Conran`s Super Woman any more. According to Price Waterhouse Cooper this Partly explains why the pay gap is actually increasing ( ONS). The few women left in offices report conditions returning to the 1970s with middle aged men chasing around the junior , female staff .Then what do women who are conspicuously successful and older do ? Spend more ever on plastic surgery new boobs and fake lips. Women of 82 are opting for nip and tucks according to Poll of surgeons recently . It may just be me but I am rather partial to an older woman but she has to have some style for gods sake . That’s what ages gives you !

41% of children in day care for more than 20 hours a week are insecure while only 26 % of toddlers are for by their mothers are ( British medical journal).. Types of feminism then are irrefutably damaging children, even if the nanny can teach them to swear in Polish. Sadly the only sort of household that can provide that nest is declining. Couples have slumped from 81% to 70% since 1974 in all, but this is due to one specific trend. The single earner household was 42 % of all households and is now 22%. (1) Increasingly the unit is either two salaries or none .

Here is the problem though. Resistance to the one income family, where that income is a woman`s, is unchanged . The wives of men without jobs ,are no more likely to be in work now than they were 30 years ago. This taboo is reinforced by women as much as men. Oooo they are so contradictory , did I mention that?
Women are also highly averse to marrying beneath themselves in earning potential or IQ .They increasingly dominate Universities but cannot see that as they go up some men must come down , and they will have to do. It is a gloomy fact that 40% of female graduates born in 1970 are likely to enter their 40s childless . Furthermore women want men clever than them or at least on a par. A recent study( Quoted by Boris ) showed that if a man’s IQ rises by 16 his mating chances improve 35%. If a women’s does her chances of getting hitched decline by the same amount.

So here’s your problem women. You are out performing men educationally , increasingly flexible hours for men and are around the corner so you can have you man do the dusting and watch Eastenders and bring up baby,. You out drink men you can have as much sex as you like , then you can come home and beat him at chess. You should be happy but you are not ….. As alternative comedians say, “Huh?” “What’s all that about ? “ With the most important election in a generation soon to be upon us and the most influential constituency being women let us hope Mr. Cameron is able to understand them . I don’t and it sometimes seems to me …nor do they.
1-( Richard Berthoud Of the Institute for Economic Research for the Rowntree Foundation)