12/84Percentage of college men who say they might commit rape if there were no chance of being caught: 35
3/84Men under arms, worldwide: 25,000,000
Of a female Columbia University MBA: $40,022
7/84Earnings of the average U.S. female worker, expressed as a percentage of the average male’s, in 1981: 59.9
1/85Percentage of women executives who say they prefer a male boss: 29
10/85Percentage of teenagers who say they favor a one-year national youth service program for men: 62
Who are retired today: 20
1/86Chances that a male North Dakotan is an Elk: 1 in 10
10/86Percentage of men who say their biggest sports thrill would be to get the winning hit in the World Series: 32
2/86Percentage of acknowledged male homosexuals who are fathers: 25
2/86Percentage increase, since 1974, in the number of self-employed men: 12
Today: 2 to 1
11/87Tuition for a week at the Dollars ¢ Sense management camp for teenagers in Florida: $600
12/87Percentage of women in two-income families who say they “almost always” prepare the tax returns: 29
3/87Percentage of French men who say they would like to see Princess Stephanie pose nude in a magazine: 28
2/88Percentage of married men and women who say they were worried about sex on their wedding night: 18
3/88Percentage of the top sixty Republican presidential campaign aides who are black or Hispanic: 0
6/88Number of universities that have a Barbra Streisand Professor of Women and Men in Society: 1
7/88Percentage of 13- to 15-year-old boys who say that it is acceptable for a man to rape his wife: 86
Who say that it is acceptable for a man to rape his date if he has spent “a lot of money” on her: 24
8/88Number of New York Times articles since 1984 that have mentioned Nicaragua’s La Prensa: 263
1/89Number of the 83 Appeals Court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan who are white men: 75
11/89Percentage decrease, since 1979, in the number of white males applying to U.S. medical schools: 47
5/89Chances that a Palestinian male in the occupied territories has been arrested at least once since 1979: 1 in 10
8/89Percentage of men earning more than $50,000 a year who say they have had at least six affairs with co-workers: 20
1/90Chances that a Palestinian male in the occupied territories has been arrested at least once since 1980: 1 in 10
12/90Price of pectoral implants for a man, from Dr. Brian Novack of Beverly Hills, California: $6,500
4/90Percentage of men living in Bangladesh who live past the age of 65: 55
5/90Ratio of women who buy Mother’s Day cards to men who do: 5:1
Ratio of women who buy Father’s Day cards to men who do: 8:1
7/90Percentage of American women who said in 1970 that men were “basically kind, gentle, and thoughtful”: 67
Percentage who say this today: 51
7/90Price of a full back-waxing for men at La Carezza in New York City: $30
9/90Percentage of men who are chronically constipated: 12
1/91Percentage of male college students who say that “some women look as though they’re just asking to be raped”: 84
10/91Chances that a Thai man has been to a prostitute: 3 in 4
3/91Ratio of the number of profanities uttered by actors to the number uttered by actresses in films released in the 1960s: 10:1
4/91Ratio of the size of the female spider monkey’s clitoris to the size of the male monkey’s penis: 2:1
5/91Death rate, since last August, for American military personnel stationed in the Persian Gulf, per 100,000: 69
Death rate for men between the ages of 20 and 30 living in the United States since last August, per 100,000: 104
Number of Palestinians who have been laid off by Israeli manufacturers this year: 8,500
6/91Rank of Jose, among the names most often given male babies born in Los Angeles County this year: 1
8/91Year Brazil’s Supreme Court first ruled that it is illegal for a man to kill his adulterous wife to defend his honor: 1991
9/91Percentage of the references to male tennis players made by TV sportscasters that use the player’s first name only: 8
Percentage of the references to female tennis players that do: 53 [see page 38]
11/92Amount by which the number of women voting in 1988 exceeded the number of men who voted: 7,000,000
12/92Percentage change, since 1970, in the number of American women working more than one job: +390
12/92Weekly church services a Kentucky man must attend until 1997 as part of his sentence for growing marijuana: 3
12/92Ratio of American marriages between black men and white women to those between black women and white men: 2:1
2/92Average level of testosterone in the saliva of male trial lawyers, in nanograms per deciliter: 6.7
7/92Percentage of male college students who believe that life is “a meaningless existential hell”: 27
7/92Chances that a teenage American male has seen Wayne’s World at least three times: 1 in 10
10/93Chances that an Azerbaijani man has a mustache: 2 in 3
10/93Rank of Mother Teresa and Elizabeth Taylor, among the women most admired by U.S. Latinos: 1,2
Rank of Bill Clinton and the Pope, among the men most admired: 1,2
11/93Ratio of the average alcohol consumption of a college fraternity-house resident to that of a male college student: 3:1
12/93Fine levied on each of three children convicted in Texas last fall of assaulting a man dressed as Barney the dinosaur: $200
2/93Number of minutes it took an Australian man to give away the $1 million he won in a lottery last year: 30
2/93Years after winning a $3 million state lottery that a Los Angeles man was arrested for receiving looted merchandise: 3
3/93Number of times a West Virginia man accidentally shot himself in the foot while cleaning his three guns last fall: 3
4/93Ratio of the number of women who deal with depression by eating to the number of men who do: 3:1
Ratio of the number of men who deal with depression by drinking or taking drugs to the number of women who do: 5:1
6/93Number of black men, per 100,000, incarcerated in South Africa: 681
1/94Profits earned last year by two men selling used girls’ underpants from vending machines in Japan: $96,000
11/94Percentage of American women who say their car is “more reliable” than most men they know: 49
2/94Amount a California man won last year after suing his wife for feigning sexual attraction to him for 13 years: $242,000
5/94Chances that a man using a computer at work believes that PCs are “too technical for most people to use easily”: 1 in 5
7/94Number of unused condoms discovered last year aboard a 53-man German submarine sunk during World War II: 2,000
Chances that an American sentenced for crack-related offenses is white: 1 in 25
10/95Dimensions, in inches, of a gauze pad left in an Iowa man during an operation last year: 14 x 14
10/95Number of years a Utah man had been married before discovering last April that his wife was a man: 3.5
11/95Number of years by which Russian president Boris Yeltsin has outlived the average life span of a Russian male: 5
11/95Price of a man’s solid gold Nelson Mandela Commemorative Timepiece, from Hope Industries of New York: $5,000
3/95Average amount of his Social Security and Medicare taxes a single 30-year-old man will never receive in benefits: $37,200
Average amount in excess of his Social Security and Medicare taxes a single 65-year-old man will receive: $35,200
3/95Amount for which a Mississippi man attempted to sue “the Bible” last year, citing it as “oppressive hearsay”: $45,000,000
3/95Number of hamburgers thrown at a man attempting to rob an Oklahoma City McDonald’s last July before he fled: 1
4/95Days in jail served by a Michigan man last year after being convicted of secretly videotaping people using his bathroom: 75
5/95Damages paid by the Kellogg Company this year after an Ohio man claimed a flaming Pop-Tart ignited his kitchen: $2,400
6/95Number of the 272 U.S. prisoners executed since 1976 who were white men convicted of killing a black man: 1
7/95Estimated property damage caused in a New York suburb last spring by a man firing a slingshot from his Lincoln: $7,000
7/95Percentage of men between twenty-five and thirty-four who earn enough to keep a family of four from poverty: 66
1/96Change since 1989 in the percentage of black men between 16 and 24 who say they are inclined to join the military: -19
11/96Rank of Dole among the most “spontaneously humorous” men ever to run for president, according to pundit Mark Shields: 1
2/96Blocks from Lincoln’s tomb that a notice was posted last year warning cabdrivers not to pick up black males: 14
Estimated number of days later that the Lincoln Yellow Cab Company agreed to “monitor” its bulletin board: 48
2/96Years in jail a California man was sentenced to last year after his third burglary offense, the theft of four cookies: 26
2/96Days in jail served by a California man convicted last year of killing one graffiti vandal and wounding another: 4
4/96Last year in which the majority of U.S. ob-gyn residents were men: 1991
7/96Chances that a cartoon in The New Yorker’s Women’s Issue was drawn by a man: 5 in 6
8/96Percentage by which the Pillsbury Bake-Off increased its grand prize last year: 1,900
8/96Days in jail to which a Pennsylvania man was sentenced last March for repeatedly oinking at his ex-wife: 30
1/97Chances that a Republican man believes that “poor people have hard lives”: 1 in 4
5/97Number of bulletproof Bibles manufactured last year by California’s Innovative Marketing Alliance: 1,000
10/98Hours it took two men last July to win a contest to decode the federal government’s data-scrambling system: 56
10/98Average percentage points by which a male sports fan’s testosterone level rises when his team wins: 20
Average points by which it falls when they lose: 20
11/98Chances that a 1996 campaign contribution of over $200 came from a white man earning at least $100,000 a year: 2 in 3
Chances that a white male donor, making over $100,000 a year, and who gave over $200 to a 1996 campaign “personally knows” a member of Congress: 3 in 4
12/98Chances that a U.S. film with male Arab or Muslim characters depicts them as greedy, violent, or dishonest: 19 in 20
2/98Factor by which male readership of Sports Illustrated increases for the swimsuit edition: 2
2/98Average amount a man spends on Valentine’s Day for every dollar a woman spends: $1.60
5/98Number of consecutive hours that a Maryland man spent kissing a motorboat last winter in order to win it in a contest: 59
10/99Number of times CBS’s press release for Jesus, the miniseries, mentions the “billions” of Christians He inspired: 2
10/99Number of tires found along the Mississippi River since 1997 by an Illinois man bent on cleaning it: 1,916
4/99Settlement paid 3 female federal inmates last year after guards sold them as sex slaves to male prisoners: $500,000
5/99Number of times that a white man has been executed for killing a black man in Texas since 1860: 0
6/99Number of men ticketed for indecent exposure in Opelousas, Louisiana, last year for wearing low-riding pants: 14
6/99Estimated maximum number of hours that a male june bug will cling to its partner after copulation: 2
8/99Ratio of the amount J. P. Morgan paid a man to fight in his place in the Civil War to what he spent on cigars in 1863: 1:1
9/99Number of death sentences upheld by Texas courts since 1990 for men whose lawyers slept during their trials: 3
9/99Percentage of white Pennsylvania men denied gun ownership between 1778 and 1789 for refusing a state loyalty oath: 40
3/00Fine levied on a California man last fall for shooting an owl with a slingshot, then beating it: $10,000
3/00Number of times Elizabeth Dole mentioned Ronald Reagan in her endorsement of George W. Bush last winter: 5
3/00Rank of Adam Sandler and Bill Gates among the most popular role models with male college freshmen: 1,2
5/00Number of endangered tortoises that U.S. Customs agents discovered in a man’s trousers last December in Miami: 55
6/00Ratio of the average 1850 price in Texas of a healthy male slave to that of 200 acres of prime farmland: 1:1
7/00Number of hidden video cameras discovered in the men’s showers at a Yosemite campground last July: 2
3/01Estimated chance that an African-American man is HIV-positive: 1 in 50
3/01Days after Time named George W. Bush 2000’s man of the year that Russians named Vladimir Lenin man of the century: 4
4/01Number of tries it took a blind North Dakota man to pass a shooting test last fall before receiving a gun permit: 2
5/01Estimated number of “crush films” involving live rodents and high-heeled women seized from a New York man in 1999: 70
6/01Age range in which a heterosexual U.S. man is most likely to acknowledge having once had a homosexual experience: 50-65
9/01Ratio of the average time it takes a male cardinal to learn a song to the time it takes a female: 3:1
10/02Number of traffic tickets issued in July by British Columbia police officers posing as squeegee men: 90
5/02Days after September 11 that New Jersey’s Iman Abdallah applied to trademark the phrase “Let’s roll”: 11
Days later that the foundation named for the man who immortalized the phrase applied to trademark it: 4
7/02Percentage of male fish in two English rivers that scientists say have been “effectively feminised” by estrogen in the water: 100
8/02Price a Las Vegas filmmaker charges through his website for a film of homeless men fighting each other: $19.95
9/02Number of lawsuits filed since 1999 against a firm then run by the man leading Bush’s new Corporate Fraud Taskforce: 3
Amount that the company paid to settle the cases: $478,000,000
1/03Rank of Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men among the New York Times’s top “business” bestsellers in September: 1
2/03Percentage change since 2000 in the number of syphilis cases among U.S. men and women, respectively: +15, -18
2/03Percentage by which the average sperm count of an urban U.S. male exceeds that of a rural U.S. male: 60
3/03Percentage points by which wearing a swimsuit increased the average math test score among men in a Michigan study: 4
5/03Chance that a male human worldwide is a direct patrilineal descendant of Genghis Khan: 1 in 200
1/04Days that the NYPD suspended a cop without pay last winter for refusing to arrest a man for sleeping in a parking lot: 30
1/04Rank of rhinoplasty and liposuction among the most common plastic surgeries performed on men in the U.S.: 1,2
Rank of rhinoplasty and penile enlargement among those most commonly performed on men in the U.K.: 2, 1
10/04Years after leaving his post during the Vietnam War that a Connecticut man was arrested for desertion in July: 34
10/04Seconds by which this year’s winner of the men’s Olympic 400-meter dash was faster than the winner of the women’s: 5.81
10/04Price a haunted-house supplier charges for a male figure “being tortured like never before,” flesh-ripping sounds included: $2,295
12/04Chances that an adult male citizen of Pitcairn Island has been arrested for a sex-related crime this year: 2 in 5
Minimum number of those arrested who are direct descendants of mutineer Fletcher Christian: 4
4/04Number of cents a U.S. woman earned for every dollar that a U.S. man did in 1983 and 2000, respectively: 80.4, 79.7
4/04Ratio of the number of Afghan men who have registered to the number of women who have done so: 10:3
Profits he reaped: $9.50
5/04Minimum number of Italian men accused of paying for a “sexual anxieties” diagnosis to avoid military service last winter: 150
5/04Average percentage of African-American men age 16 to 64 in New York City who were employed each month last year: 52
5/04Number of years a North Carolina man has been in prison for stealing a television: 33
6/04Minimum number of the brand names mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses that are still extant: 28
Number of the brand holders that are sponsoring Dublin’s centennial Bloomsday celebration this month: 2
7/04Average inches by which a British man’s height fell short of an American man’s in the eighteenth century: 3.1
8/04Number of years a judge ordered a man convicted of cocaine possession last spring to keep a coffin in his home: 6.5
9/04Chance that a U.S. man says that threatening “to shoot” detainees is sometimes an acceptable way to get information: 1 in 2
Percentage who hear an “upper-class” or “BBC” voice: 30
11/05Number of out-of-town men who posted to New Orleans ’s Craigslist site seeking refugee women: 49
11/05Percentage margin by which an MTV awards-show poll for best-dressed male attendee was decided this fall: 1
2/05Year by which the median full-time wage of a U.S. woman will equal that of a U.S. man, based on current trends: 2050
Page on which the Gainesville Sun ran the story: A1
4/05Maximum hair length for North Korean men, in centimeters, as prescribed by state media: 5
4/05Amount a Nebraska man made this year by auctioning his forehead to advertisers: $37,375