Maybe If Operas Had Cheerleaders

Soap operas aren’t the only ones women watch more than men. A report by the National Endowment for the Arts finds the same goes for operatic operas. Indeed, as you can see from the chart, women are more engaged than men in all sorts of cultural events. This tendency isn’t confined to performances: Men were also less likely than women to have visited an art museum (25 percent vs. 28 percent). It’d be nice to think the lads are too busy reading Proust to venture out in pursuit of culture, but far fewer men than women read “literature” last year (38 percent vs.