More Older Women Marrying Younger Men

In the Harvard Business Review, there is the following report which is quoted here:

"The proportion of male-female partnerships in which the woman is at least five years older than the man increased sharply in the UK and US in the 1980s and 1990s.
Having remained at 3% for decades, it rose 8.3% in 2000 and is likely to be much higher now.

Today's wider career choices give women the opportunity to increase their desirability through financial success, an option that once was limited to males, the researchers say."

Another age boost for women?

Granny Au Pairs

Great news reported in the press this weekend for older women looking for adventure and something new and different.

A German company, see www.granny-aupair.com,was set up in 2010 to provide opportunities for older women to be au pairs. Their member register includes women from ages 49-76 with the most active users in their 60s.

This service provides older, independent women with a taste for adventure, opportunities to travel the world to new countries and to learn new languages. Many of the women have already raised a family and have all that experience and knowledge to draw on.

Hopefully someone in the UK will think about setting up something as the website is in German!