Les femmes sont-elles plus généreuses que les hommes ?

Cet article publié par le Daily Mail de ce matin nous rappelle que les femmes aux Etats-Unis sont plus généreuses que les hommes à l'heure de répondre à des appels de fonds humanitaires.

Women really are more generous as study proves they donate more to charity

Generous: Women are signifcantly more likey to make a donation to charity, a new study has found.

It has long been suspected by charities and not for profit organisations.
But now an American study has found that women across nearly every income level give signifcantly more to charity than men - in some cases twice as much.
Researchers at the Centre of Philanthropy at Indiana University studied the donating patterns of 8,000 American households.
They found that women gave more in all income brackets apart from one, those with incomes between $23,509 and $43,500.
The research also said that there were several factors that contributed to the growing generosity of women.
Among them were that women's income has grown and that the number of American women who earn more than their husbands now stands at 26 per cent.
Debra Mesch, director of the institute that led the study, said that the results are so decisive that charities can stop wondering about whether women give more.
'I think the general assumption is that women might be more likely to give, but that they give less money,' Ms Mesch said.
However women gave more often than men to both different charities, and in the total number of dollars, Ms Mesch added.
The data used for the study was not broken down by gender, so researchers looked solely at households headed by single men or single women, including adults who have been divorced, widowed or never married.

Debra Mesch: Said the study's results are so decisive that charities can stop wondering about who donates more
Previous research had shown that women encourage their husbands to give, but generally it is the women that make donations within married households.
However Suzie Upton, chief development officer of the American Heart Association, disputed the findings of the research.
Ms Upton claimed her organisation had no data to show that women are more generous, despite the Dallas based charity targeting women in it's fundraising.
She said: 'We target lots of our efforts to women, not because they are more generous, but because they are the decision makers for themselves and for their families.'
But World Vision, a Washington State charity, said they were not surprised by the results.
Spokesman John Yeager claimed the charity had known for decades that its target voter was a a 47-year-old, college-educated female.
The American Red Cross has also targeted women for donations and added a donor group in 2005.
Nearly 600 women across the United States give $10,000 a year to its Tiffany's Circle fundraising arm to help provide a stable base for its disaster relief.
' Women have been incredibly generous, and they want to make a difference,' volunteer chairman Elaine Lyerly said, referring both to her organisation and philanthropy in general.
The charity said it has no plans to add a male only donation group.

Les femmes seules en hausse

Cet article de Steve Doughty, publié dans le Daily Mail, rappelle que le nombre de femmes seules en âge de travailler augmente.

Cette évolution statistique n'est pas sans conséquences pour le levage de fonds.

Une femme seule qui gagne sa vie est bien plus susceptible de répondre à des appels charitables et de donner du temps au titre du bénévolat.


The Bridget Jones generation: How half of women aged 18-35 are living alone

Trend: Fewer than half of young women now share their lives with a man - just like movie singleton Bridget Jones
Fewer than half of young women now share their lives with a man, researchers said yesterday.
Some, like movie singleton Bridget Jones, live alone while others are forced by the high cost of housing to remain with their parents.
A study shows that just over half of all women aged between 18 and 34 – 50.8 per cent – do not live with a partner.
The single majority reflects a big increase in the numbers who either by choice or necessity live with their parents, who have put their career before relationships, or have become lone mothers.
Less than 30 years ago well over half the women in the same age group were married, and around two thirds were living full-time with either a husband or boyfriend.
The figures were compiled by the European Union’s Eurostat statistics arm from figures collected from across EU countries by Brussels.
They also showed more than six out of ten men in the same age group are on their own – although men have always married or taken live-in partners at an older age than women.
In Britain the rise of singledom is partly a product of university or higher education for greater numbers of girls, together with far more opportunities for well-paid careers for young women.
However, the high cost of housing is also persuading many to stay at home with their parents.
It may also be that well-educated and well-paid young women are far more choosy about the qualities of the men they may pick as partners. Among less well-off young women, the ‘couple penalty’ built into the benefits system discourages the forming of partnerships.
Single mothers can lose as much as £200 a week in benefits and tax credits if they live with their child’s father or another man, and British official statistics have shown there are 1.2million couples who keep separate homes and regard themselves as ‘living apart together’.
Researcher and author on family life Patricia Morgan said: ‘We are always told the single life is exciting, but these figures hide a lot of dissatisfaction and a lot of heartbreak. The number of women who want to be married and to have a family is very high.
‘There is a squeeze on women at both ends of the income range. At the bottom the benefits system stops them finding partners. Higher up it is hard to afford somewhere to live and there is no tax help for couples. The Child Benefit changes are hardly going to help.’

True reflection: A Scene from the film 'Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason' starring Renee Zellweger as Bridget - today 50.8 per cent of women aged 18-35 do not live with a partner
There is no equivalent in figures collected for the British government to the percentage for those ‘living in a consensual union’ that have been published for the first time by the EU.
However in 1981, according to counts by the Office for National Statistics, 53 per cent of women in England and Wales aged between 16 and 34, some 3.7million young women, were married.
Since teenagers aged between 16 and 18 were the least likely to be married, the percentage among 18 to 34 year olds would have been higher.
A further 10 per cent of women in the same age group are thought to have been cohabiting. Mealtimes have been one of the traditions that have suffered as more people live alone.
Almost three-quarters of Britons no longer have three meals a day, with snacking becoming the preferred form of eating.
Half of Britons admitted they snacked because they were bored, with almost a quarter describing themselves as emotional eaters who nibble when sad and stressed, the survey for food company Feasters found.
One in ten said they snacked because they were too busy to prepare a meal and 72 per cent said they never ate three meals a day.
Feasters boss Nicola O’Dwyer said: ‘Today’s generation appear to prefer quick, convenient snacks over preparing a meal.
‘This is far from surprising when you consider hectic work schedules, social lives and other activities, which fill up the day.’