I have always wondered why women tend to reduce their age. And I thought the reason was that they wanted to portray plenty of child bearing years remaining.
And maybe I was right. Closely related is the topic of biological clock which is very critical and treated as such by women. But men, as far as I have seen, rarely think of themselves as having a biological clock.
Ask any 40 year old woman her age, she is likely to round it off to 37. Now we know why. I am guessing that if you ask any 9 year old girl what her age is, she won't round it off to 5 - she may want to be considered to be 10 or even 11. She would want to get into the child bearing range without even knowing what it means. Hardwired?
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