11/84Percentage of American men who admit they wear uncomfortable shoes because they look good: 20
Percentage of American women who admit they wear uncomfortable shoes because they look good: 45
12/84Number of American men who have surgery each year solely to improve their personal appearance: 500,000
5/84Percentage of American women who use deodorant: 89
Of American men: 75
7/84Percentage of American men earning less than $5,000 a year who say they cheat on their wives: 16
7/84Percentage of American women who consider themselves pretty: 13
Percentage of American men who consider themselves handsome: 28
6/85Percentage of American men who say they sleep in the nude: 19
Percentage of American women: 6
1/86Percentage of American men who say they enjoy sex more than money: 47
Percentage of American women who say this: 26
12/88Chances that a white American man is self-employed: 1 in 7
Chances that a foreign-born Korean-American man is: 1 in 4
12/89Percentage of American men who say they deal with depression by trying to figure out their problems: 23
Percentage who say they deal with depression by watching television: 35
10/90Change, since 1988, in the number of minutes an American man spends on personal grooming each day: +15
4/90Average number of pounds that American men add to their weight when reporting it: .91
Average number of pounds American women subtract: 2.3
9/90Change, since 1972, in the percentage of employed American men who have an employer-financed pension plan: -5
Change in the percentage of employed American women who do: +5
10/91Percentage of American men who say they have fantasized about having sex with a fictional TV character: 30
12/91Percentage of American men who say they would rather have sex with Betty Rubble than Wilma Flintstone: 58
9/91Chances that a single American man between the ages of 25 and 34 lives with one or both parents: 1 in 3
2/92Percentage of all employed black American men with a college degree who earned poverty-level wages in 1979: 9.5
Percentage today: 14.8
10/95Change since 1979 in the median earnings of an American woman with a full-time job, in constant dollars: +$1,925
Change in the median earnings of an American man with a full-time job: -$2,816
3/96Percentage of American men who believe “the country would be better off” if more members of Congress were women: 63
5/97Chance that an African-American man was ineligible to vote last year due to former or current imprisonment: 1 in 7
Chance that an American woman believes this: 1 in 9
5/00Estimated number of American men who suffer from compulsive bodybuilding: 669,000
12/04Percentage of 30-year-old American men who were married, self-supporting fathers in 1960 and 2000, respectively: 65,31
6/08Percentage of American men with a net worth of at least $20 million who admit to having paid for sex: 34