Singaporean women prefer taller and richer men, believe men should make first move: Survey

If you are a single man looking to date a Singaporean woman, your odds of finding a match would be a lot higher if you were tall and rich.

In a survey of singles across five countries and territories in Asia, Singaporean women were the least likely to date a guy who is shorter than them and earn less, matchmaking agency Lunch Actually found.

The agency, which unveiled its survey results in a virtual media briefing on Thursday (Nov 5), also found a stark mismatch in expectations between male and female Singaporeans over who should initiate conversations or dates.

While 61 per cent of Singaporean women felt that men should make the first move, only 20 per cent of male respondents believed the same. The annual survey was conducted over two weeks in October across five of its markets, namely, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

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More than 3,500 singles responded to the multiple-choice survey, with 690 from Singapore. Respondents from Singapore were equally split between male and female respondents.

In the survey, 39 per cent of Singaporean women said that they would date a man who earns less than them.

This percentage was marginally lower than female respondents from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, where 40 to 41 per cent of women said that they would do so. Women from Hong Kong, on the other hand, were the most willing to date men with lower earning power, with 57 per cent saying that they would.

Singaporean men seemed open to date women who earned more, with 87 per cent of respondents saying so.

Similarly, more than 80 per cent of male respondents in other countries said that they were willing to do that as well.

Men were less likely than women to go out with someone who had been married before, with 61 per cent of male respondents saying that they would compared to 67 per cent of women.

When it came to physical attributes such as height, only 20 per cent of Singaporean women were willing to date someone shorter than them. While this was the lowest figure across all countries, it was not significantly lower, with the percentages in other places ranging from 21 to 31 per cent. In comparison, more than three times that number of Singaporean men, or 66 per cent, were open to dating taller women. The number of Singaporean women willing to date younger men had also grown from 47 per cent in 2013 to 69 per cent this year, the survey found.

Ref: todayonline