Women cheating at higher rates

> Every day, more women are having sex with men other than their husband. Younger women, under 25, and women over the age of 60 are cheating more than ever before… female infidelity has progressively increased, to the point where current estimates put it between 45-55% for lifetime risk of infidelity by a woman

https://i.imgur.com/65aClIn.jpg

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201005/why-are-women-cheating-more (https://archive.ph/1QFQc)

> The percentage of wives having affairs rose almost 40 percent during the last two decades… the number of men admitting to extramarital affairs held constant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-02/cheating-wives-narrowed-infidelity-gap-over-two-decades (https://archive.md/0OnCC)

> Among ever-married adults ages 18 to 29, women are slightly more likely than men to be guilty of infidelity

https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheats-more-the-demographics-of-cheating-in-america (https://archive.ph/u7HWA)

> According Dr. Tammy Nelson, a couples therapist and author of When You’re The One Who Cheats, there’s reason to suspect that women may be not only cheating more, but also getting away with it more frequently.

> “We don’t know if more men or more women are caught cheating, on average. But it would make sense that women are better at hiding their affairs.

https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/do-men-cheat-more-than-women-infidelity-data/ (https://archive.ph/coaHB)

> Dr Catherine Mercer, head of analysis for the Natsal study, says the gender gap may in part be because women are less likely to own up to cheating than men.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233843 (https://archive.ph/pXofb)

> However, Dr. David Holmes, a psychologist at Manchester Metropolitan University, claims that women are having more affairs than ever but behave very differently from the way men do when they cheat.

https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/reports/are-women-really-better-at-having-affairs-than-men-167004 (https://archive.md/w9oRc)

> Since 1990, notes the psychoanalyst and writer, **the rate of married women who report they’ve been unfaithful has increased by 40 percent, while the rate among men has remained the same. More women than ever are cheating, she tells us, or are willing to admit that they are cheating** — and while Perel spends much of her book examining the psychological meaning, motivation, and impact of these affairs, she offers little insight into the significance of the rise itself. So what exactly is happening inside marriages to shift the numbers? What has changed about monogamy or family life in the past 27 years to account for the closing gap?

https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/why-women-cheat-esther-perel-state-of-affairs.html (https://archive.ph/uTrZd)

> “We have this idea socially that men are cheaters, all men are susceptible to cheating, that men are dogs, right?” says Alicia M. Walker, an associate professor of sociology at Missouri State University. “But the data tells a very different story.”

> In the process of writing her book, The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife: Power, Pragmatism, and Pleasure in Women’s Infidelity,  **Walker learned that women cheat at the same rates as men, if not more. Turns out, the cheating wife is not an anomaly. And depending on the age group and behavior, sometimes women cheat even more often than men**. “Way more women are cheating than we think,” she says. “We just don’t like to talk about it and we don’t like to think about it. You don’t want to think that your neighbor, your Sunday school teacher, or your friend is doing this. But the reality is, you know a woman who’s cheating, you just don’t know that she is.”

https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/what-drives-women-cheat-infidelity-affair/ (https://archive.ph/igtmq)

Mary Jo Rapini: Women Cheat More Than Men (~800k views)
https://youtu.be/_HWpwClNKwQ