Women are more likely than men to initiate1 divorces, but women and men are just as likely to end non-marital2 relationships, according to a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association . The breakups of non-marital heterosexual relationships in the U.S. are quite gender3 neutral and fairly egalitarian, said study author Michael Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University. This was a surprise because the only prior research that had been done on who wanted the breakup was research on marital divorces.Rosenfelds analysis relies on data from the 2009-2015 waves of the nationally representative How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey. He considers 2,262 adults, ages 19 to 94, who had opposite sex partners in 2009. By 2015, 371 of these people had broken up or gotten divorced.As part of his analysis, Rosenfeld found that women initiated4 69 percent of all divorces, compared to 31 percent for men. In contrast, there was not a statistically5 significant difference between the percentage of breakups initiated by unmarried women and men, regardless of whether they had been cohabitating with their partners.Social scientists have previously6 argued that women initiate most divorces because they are more sensitive to relationship difficulties. Rosenfeld argues that were this true, women would initiate the breakup of both marriages and non-marital relationships at equal rates.Women seem to have a predominant role in initiating7 divorces in the U.S. as far back as there is data from a variety of sources, back to the 1940s, Rosenfeld said. I assumed, and I think other scholars assumed, that womens role in breakups was an essential attribute of heterosexual relationships, but it turns out that womens role in initiating breakups is unique to heterosexual marriage.
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1 initiate vt.开始，创始，发动；启蒙，使基础知识；引入 参考例句： A language teacher should initiate pupils into the elements of grammar.语言老师应该把基本语法教给学生。 They wanted to initiate a discussion on economics.他们想启动一次经济学讨论。
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