Women have been fighting for equal rights for decades, whether at work or in relationships. But despite the gender pay gap and the like, have we at least reached eye level when it comes to love? A study says no.
Let’s start with the good news: 80 percent of people in relationships feel equal to their partner. This was the result of a study by the dating portal Elite Partner, which surveyed 4,000 romantic partners. But the analysis of the study revealed piquant differences between the sexes when it comes to equality – apparently men and women are still not on equal terms when it comes to love.
The study results on the question “Do you feel equal to your partner” are all satisfactory. However, when we dug deeper into the relationships, it emerged that women in particular felt less supported by their men. Only 72 percent of the women surveyed agreed with the statement “My partner is always there for me when it comes to emotional matters.” Among men, approval was 78 percent.
Things get even worse for families. While fathers gave the same information as men without children, women in a relationship with children felt significantly less supported by their partner in everyday life. The results were 75 percent approval for support without children compared to just 67 percent approval for women with children. After all, men with children are also more likely to feel guilty about not doing enough for the relationship. Apparently it goes from the head to the hands less often, otherwise these results wouldn’t exist for the mothers.
Women are more likely to discuss problems in their relationships
The study was also able to underline another cliché. Women are less likely to hold back their displeasure and communicate more often when something bothers them, even if it threatens to be in a bad mood. One in four women prefers to keep their opinions hidden, while for men it is said to be one in three.
When it comes to love, the partners are not always on the same level. 19 percent of men and 13 percent of women have the impression that they love their partner more than their partner loves them. And a similar number think that they are not good enough for their partner. Interestingly, the younger men are the most insecure. One in three men under 40 believe that they love their partner more and are not good enough for her. The psychologist Lisa Fischbach sees the reasons for this in the strength women have gained over decades, especially when children are involved: “Younger men in particular seem to deal with this process of change differently and are sometimes unsettled by women’s self-confident demands.”
A fun fact of the study results was that, as you read above, women with children in particular feel less supported by their partner, but it also now turned out that one in seven men expects something in return for a favor. Puppy cake unconditional love. In addition, 18 percent of men make sure that the give and take within the relationship is balanced, but apparently not the same men who tend to hold back when it comes to family commitment.
“The little bit of housework takes care of itself, says my husband,” sang Johanna von Koczian in 1977 and fortunately this attitude no longer applies to women in particular today. According to the survey, couples at least meet at eye level when cleaning.
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