FREDERICTON -- Men and women may talk about how the other half has it better, but a recent study suggests only 56 per cent would grab a chance in the opposite sex's body for even one week.
A study by two University of New Brunswick researchers and a Fredericton community member also shows that only about 30 per cent of the 209 participants would choose to be born again as a member of the opposite sex.
About two thirds of participants say they'd try the change out for a day and 65 per cent would cross the gender line for an hour.
Sandra Byers, chair of the psychology department at UNB Fredericton, PhD candidate Kaitlyn Goldsmith and Amanda Miller published their findings this month in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.
There were 107 men and 102 women in the study, with no participants identifying as transgender, answering questions on whether they would change genders and why.
They had roughly the same willingness to change genders.
Byers said some people are simply more open to having a different experience, while in other instances people tended to identify very strongly with their own gender.
She says that some responses are implicitly sexist in that they make general assumptions about positive and negative characteristics of the other sex.
