Costa Concordia: are women still prioritised over men in evacuation procedures?

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3. Some women are afraid to seem desperate.

That is one reason why many women do not do the approaching / asking out. I think if more men spoke up about the need for this, and stated openly that they would respect women who did so, and not consider them desperate, too aggressive, etc. that it would go a long way toward assuaging some of those fears and helping to change things where that issue is concerned.

As for paying, I think that's just down to tradition, and the tendency (given the culture we live in) that a man who does not do so is taking advantage of a woman, or treating her poorly (players will have their partners pay for everything).

Personally I used to think it was due to women earning less, rationalizing that once women are earning the same as men, I'd pay.

In all seriousness though I worked it out with each date on a case by case basis, depending on our income disparity (if I earned more, I paid; if he earned more, he paid; if we were about the same we split the tab).