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A four-year study by sociologists at, The University of Manchester has found that women are much likely than men to make deep and lasting friendships.(1)____ The investigation into social networks by the University's Research Centre for Socio-Cultural Change found that men are more fickle and calculating about who they should be friends.(2)____ Women, on the other hand, stand by their friends through thick and thin. Adding to the bad news for male prestige,the study confirms the stereotype which men are likely to base their friendship on social drinking.(3)____
Of the 10,OOO individuals studying who took part in the 1992 to 2002 British Household Panel Surveys, women are much more likely to stay with the same friends.(4)____ Single people, elder people and white collar workers are also good at paring up.(5)____ Middle class people are more likely to cast their net of friendship far more wider, or the working class tend to stick to their own kind.(6)____(7)____
Dr Gindo Tampubolon said the findings to female friendship were double significant because the data suggest we are much more likely to socialize with people from our own gender-75 per cent of best friands were with the same sex.(8)____(9)____ Dr Tampubolon, who is based at the School of Social Sciences, said: " Friendship between women seems to be fundamentally similar to friendship between men."(10)____
