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A study via California State University, Los Angeles shows that in our “age of equality,” guys and gals have varying opinions on who should spring for a date. Today Money reports:

… although more than half of women overall — nearly two-thirds of those 35 and younger — say they offer to pay for dates, 39 percent hope the guy will turn down the offer and 44 percent get annoyed if he lets her pay.

“We’ve always had a double standard with men paying,” said Janet Lever, sociology professor at California State University, Los Angeles, lead author of the report, “Who Pays for Dates? Following versus Challenging Conventional Gender Norms.”

Lever said men pick up on the idea that paying for dates is something they’re “supposed” to do, and a fair number of women let them. But this can backfire in a couple of ways. Nearly half of men say they’d dump a woman who never reached for her purse.

Males and females both are to blame for this “benevolent sexism,” the study says. More than three-quarters of men feel guilty if a woman offers to pay for a date, but only one-third of women believe they should spring if their income is greater than the guy’s.

Read the full article here.

UPDATE: The study noted in Today Money is from August 2013. We apologize for the oversight.

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