1.   Research suggests that women prefer the witty comment or anecdote on the spur of the moment.

2.   Many women prefer to spend their labour, and sometimes delivery, under water.

3.   As a new survey shows, one in four women prefer gardening to sex.

4.   A few years ago, a Gallup poll conducted in Britain revealed that more women would prefer to give up sex than give up chocolate.

5.   But common wisdom among perfumers has it that young women prefer a scent that reminds them of Grandmother, rather than Mother.

6.   But in many cases, the move into the workplace was not the low-pressure choice that these women would have preferred.

7.   Current surveys indicate that married women prefer Bush to Gore and unmarried women prefer Gore to Bush.

8.   For now, at least, most women prefer machines.

9.   For instance, peahens prefer to mate with brightly colored, long-tailed peacocks, while women prefer tall men.

10.   For whatever reasons, some executive women prefer to see things differently.