RESEARCH ARTICLE
Male Partners’ Portion of Date Among Heterosexual College Students: Changes from 1999 to 2014 in Korea
Gahyun Youn*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 11
First Page: 59
Last Page: 64
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-11-59
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101811010059
Article History:
Received Date: 28/11/2017Revision Received Date: 3/3/2018
Acceptance Date: 2/4/2018
Electronic publication date: 23/04/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Traditionally, men are perceived as the initiators of dating activities, with women as submissive followers. In this view, paying for a date is the responsibility of the man.
Methods:
This study examined how much money Korean heterosexual college men have paid for dates during the past decade.
Results:
Many women have become initiators of the dating process as society has become more egalitarian, but many studies have reported that men still pay for the first few dates.
Conclusion:
Men have paid about 72% of all the expenses for a date in 1999 but the ratio dropped to about 63% in 2014.