Men And Women Ain’t Even Living On The Same Planet Anymore, Feels Like

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1. Commentary on commonalities

   Financial Independence 33 vs 32 %

   Making family community proud 23 vs 19 %
   Not too far adrift but notably an equal ranking on the scale
   Perhaps more interesting would have been a follow-up that asked What they thought might achieve this as a Top Three (suspect the examples would be very different)

   Having no debt 21 vs 21 %

   Able to retire early 9 vs 6 %
   Near enough the same rank and a distant prospect – so for all real purposes pretty closely matched

   Commentary on differences

   Fulfilling job career 30%; fully 20% down on what the Lasses want (51%)
   My takeaway is that as a cohort they have given up on the prospect of meaningful work
   What losers

   I’m interested on the Being married issue
   I suspect that the means by which the question was asked
   made the folks reflect personally and in the Now

   If they had asked whether they supported the notion of the Principle of Marriage
   then I suspect the percentages would have been different and possibly even inverted

   Being grounded spiritually 24%; about 15% up on what the Lasses want (11%)
   Possibly this means different things to different folks but the broad takeaway is an apparent lack or need (?) by either group to be mentally balanced. No wonder your society has problems

   Using talents and resources to help others 17%; fully 20% down on what the Lasses want (37%)
   Wow; what a self centred bunch

   Having emotional stability 9%; fully 40% down on what the Lasses want
   Kind of links with the spirituality one above
   My goodness what a difference ! That truly makes them look like Losers as a cohort

   Commentary overall

   The things in common are mostly monetary and one thing which is Societal but self actualising

   Finally these answers were framed considering what would indicate success.
   This rather leaves aside what they personally want and how that might differ from what they perceive as Societal expectations of success – I wonder how much skew that gives to each group

   An important question might be :
   If their lives aligned with the definition of success whether that would make them happy against various benchmarks and ages and whether that actually matches with longitudinal data from cohorts as they age – is there a fundamental difference with the Gen Z or is this typical age profile inexperience expressing itself ?

   Fascinating

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