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In certain quarters of society, the idea that women have become "too easy" is a common complaint. This is generally a conservative position which has the "good old days" as its point of comparison, where women were expected to be modest and chaste until marriage. This traditional model had its most recent heyday in the 1950s, where traditional family values that centred the importance of marriage and "saving yourself for one person" were at their apex. After the sexual revolution of the 1960s, which came about due to changing social attitudes and technological advances like the invention of the oral contraceptive pill, attitudes towards pre-marital sex became looser. The rise of various feminist movements also encouraged women to break free of old social norms throughout the 1970s, '80s and 90s – right up until today. So what's the upshot of these decades of social change? Basically, women these days are, generally speaking, more likely to openly...

To the chagrin of many men (and even some women, too), it seems to be widely accepted that it's a man's job to make the first move in a romantic context. From everything from approaching women in bars through to proposing date ideas , it seems like we overwhelmingly expect men to do the leg work. Why is that, though? It's the 21st century, and old gender norms are fading out in plenty of other spheres, so do we really have to stick to these old cultural scripts in the dating world? Why don't women ask guys out more often? Well, the answer is that it's hard to overstate the grip that tradition has on most people, especially when it comes to dating. It's not always just tradition holding women back from making the first move, though. There are a variety of reasons women may be reluctant to approach men, from concerns about rejection through to simple market-based concepts of supply and demand. RELATED : When Women Are Scarce, Men Are Less Interested In Casual Sex ...