VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA: Russians Create Image of Ideal Woman

An ideal woman is a careful mother, a housewife or an attractive mistress

VLADIVOSTOK, March 7, vladivostoktimes.com Russian people create an image of an ideal woman and chose the main features of her. The Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) reported it and presented the information about what qualities, according to Russians, an ideal mother, wife, mistress, lady friend, lady colleague, and lady boss should have.

Woman image is very diverse among Russians.

Thus, a good mother should be

• careful (67%)
• domestic (66%)
• intelligent (37%)
• she should have the ability to overcome miseries (39%)
• empathize (35%)

An ideal wife should be

• domestic (61%)
• faithful and intelligent (47% each)

The image of an ideal mistress is different: she should be

• attractive and sexy (49% each)
• hot (30%)

Woman friend should be

• empathetic (49%)
• decent (42%)
• intelligent (35%)

The main quality for lady boss and lady colleague is

• intelligence (60% and 46% respectively)
• organized nature (47% and 46% respectively)

For lady boss ambition is more important than decency (41% and 31% respectively) but for lady colleague it is vice versa (31% and 41% respectively).

In comparison with the year 2001 Russians appreciate more

• domesticity (from 56 to 66%)
• ability to overcome miseries (from 32 to 39%)
• empathy (from 28 to 35%)

in mothers

• domesticity (from 47 to 61%)

in wives

• decency (from 20 to 31%)

in lady boss

• ability to make money (from 12 to 23%)

in lady colleague.

Less important qualities are mistress’ temperament (from 39 to 30%), lady boss’ appearance (from 22 to 15%) and lady friend’s faithfulness (from 40 to 29%).

For men a woman’s appearance is very important but they appreciate less

• carefulness in mothers (62 and 71% respectively)
• ability to overcome miseries (36 and 42% respectively)
• and ability to make money (8 and 13% respectively).

A wife’s appearance is more important for men than for women (36 and 28% respectively), the same thing about a mistress (53 and 45% respectively), and lady colleague (20 and 14% respectively).

But women appreciate more than men decency and empathy of both lady friend (37 and 47% respectively, 41 and 54% respectively) and lady colleague (37 and 49% respectively, 11 and 19% respectively).

The research was made by VCIOM on February 27-28 of the year 2010. The respondents were 1600 people from 140 cities and villages in 42 areas, territories and republics of Russia. Statistical error is not more than 3.4%.

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