A startling new survey has for the first time revealed the kind of woman
the Kenyan man desires – she has a chocolate brown complexion, is of
medium build, works part-time and has no children.
That is the dream woman for majority of Kenyan men, according to findings in a research commissioned by the Saturday Nation.
Most
Kenyan men also want their ideal woman younger than them, shorter than
them and earning less money than what they make. Even then, they are
willing to let her share in making financial decisions but few would
brook her family’s deep involvement in their relationship.
Kenyan
men also prefer a woman who has the same level of education as they do,
and expect to share domestic chores equally with them.
The
survey, conducted by Infotrak Research & Consulting and Harris
Interactive Global across the country’s eight provinces in the last week
of July, sampled 1,200 single, married, separated and divorced men as
well as those living with a partner. The sample is part of a 2,800
population for a larger survey.
Across all the clusters, majority
believed that the best time to marry was between the ages of 26 and 35,
indicating a shift of accent to completing education and settling into a
career first before marriage.
Overall, those polled (54 per
cent) wanted to be in a monogamous relationship while 30 per cent
preferred an open relationship. Only 10 per cent of the population
sample felt they should have the freedom to roam, while six per cent
believed the woman could roam as long as they did not know.
Relationship attributes
Agreement
was highest that current relationships are based on financial status
(85 per cent), followed by love (76 per cent), character (72 per cent),
physical appearance (70 per cent) and level of education (60 per cent),
health (55 per cent), age (51 per cent) and cultural background (48 per
cent).
Ideally, though, men would like to choose their dream
woman on the basis of love and affection (78 per cent), followed by
character (70 per cent), physical appearance (68 per cent), level of
education (62 per cent), health (60 per cent), age (46 per cent),
cultural background (44 per cent) and religious affiliation (38 per
cent).
A significant proportion of men prefer a woman to have the
same level of education as they do (45 per cent), but 20 per cent would
like partners that have less education than they do. Only nine per cent
are looking for women who have more education than they do. Twenty six
per cent said it did not matter.
Just under half of the men
polled would want the woman’s family to be very involved in their
relationship against 34 per cent who would want it to be somewhat
involved. Another 11 per cent would like her family to be very involved
and 10 per cent said it did not matter.
On complexion, Kenyan men
who like chocolate brown women was 47 per cent, medium brown 36 per
cent while those who prefer the dark are 11 per cent. Yellow-brown
complexioned women fit the fancy of only 4 per cent of those polled
while one per cent desire bi-racial and another one per cent white
women.
Pencil-thin women are the least popular with Kenyan men,
with only two per cent of those polled saying they prefer them, and big,
well-rounded ones winning the hearts of 22 per cent.
The clear winners are the medium-shaped women, who were cited as the preferred choice for 76 per cent of sample population.
Majority
of those polled prefer women who are up to five years younger than them
(41 per cent) or same in age (28 per cent). Only a tiny minority (15
per cent) prefer women who are five years younger than them. Five per
cent said age did not matter while another five per cent preferred
someone who was up to five years their senior, and another two per cent
women who were more than five years older than them.
Only five
per cent of the men polled would choose a woman who is taller than them.
The majority prefer a woman shorter than them (45 per cent) or the same
height (26 per cent). Of those polled, 24 per cent thought height was a
moot point.
An overwhelming majority (70 per cent) of men polled
thought the ideal woman should not have any children with only 15 per
cent saying it did not matter and 10 per cent ready to tolerate one
child.
Few men prefer a woman with two children (three per cent)
and even fewer (two per cent) would like her if she had three or more.
Only nine per cent of the men in the survey prefer a woman with more
education than them, but the highest number (45 per cent) would like
someone with whom they are at par. Just 20 per cent want someone with
less education and another 26 per cent thought it did not matter either
way.
Half of those polled prefer a woman who earns less money
than they do, 35 per cent wanting those that earned the same and 15 per
cent keen on those who get less than them. Again, 50 per cent of the men
polled preferred a woman who works part-time while 39 per cent were
fine with women who worked full time. Just 11 per cent wanted women who
did not work at all.
Financial decisions
The power
struggle in relationships does not, however, spill over into money as 70
per cent of the men polled would prefer a woman who makes financial
decisions jointly with them. Only 17 per cent are comfortable making all
the financial decisions on their own, against four per cent who would
leave financial decision-making to the woman. A sizeable nine per cent
said it did not matter.
Although women like to think that men are
all the same, age seems to make them as different as day and night.
Kenyan men seem better and more open-minded in the lower age brackets.
Younger
men, for instance, are markedly different from their middle-aged and
older counterparts in their preferences. Those between 18 and 25 find
strong independent Kenyan women very attractive and a good match for
them while those who are over 35 see the same women as too intimidating
and too much trouble.
More men aged between 26 and 35 would like
to have sex with their future wife on the first date than any other age
group polled, with a significant number across the board keen on action
after five dates.
Those between 18 and 25 would like to wait
until they are married or at least after they are engaged. The same
group had the highest number of people who did not think it did not
matter.
For men who are 35 years or older, cultural background is
the most important determiner of their current relationship, followed
by character and health, then trailed by level of education, love and
affection, financial status and age, with physical appearance as the
least consideration.
Men between 26 and 35 years old place
emphasis on a woman’s level of education, followed by love and
affection, financial status, character, health and physical appearance,
with age and then cultural background.
Men between 18 and 25 are
smitten by good looks, conscious of age, interested in financial status
before they figure out how much love and affection exists in their
current relationships. Health, character and cultural background then
follow, with the woman’s level of education being the least important
factor.
Tuesday 18 November 2014
What Kenyan Men Want In A Woman
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