Gold diggers.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Bag ladies - Brief article

"Nearly Half of Women Fear Life as a Bag Lady" was the headline over a recent article by Jennifer Harper in The Washington Times. The article cites a survey of 1,925 women by a large insurance company, to which 46 percent of respondents said they feared becoming bag ladies. Incredibly, for women with incomes of more than $100,000 a year, the figure was not lower but a slightly higher 48 percent.

This accords with my own experience. Women have always seemed to me to be more concerned with financial security than men. In those romantic novels so many of them love to read, the heroes are usually not...