Survey proves women and men come from different planets

While 37 percent of women agreed that it is reasonable to own more than five pairs of black shoes, a mere 15 percent of men felt the same way.

That's one of the findings in The AERO Guys Just Don't Get It Survey. The survey gently pokes at some of the quirky differences between Canadian men and women, said Kate Beresford, marketing manager for AERO chocolate bars

Ask men if they are born multitaskers and nearly half (49 percent) will agree. Ask women if men are born multitaskers, and 68 per cent will disagree!

Meanwhile, the vast majority of women, 85 percent, feel they are born multitaskers  and the majority of men, 61 per cent, agree with that statement.

And for a weekend getaway, women like to keep their style options open, and need a bigger suitcase.

Four of five women (82 percent) are sure to pack three or more outfits for a weekend away, with 18 percent packing five or more outfits. Men, however, are either quite efficient or rather grubby, with 52 percent claiming to pack two or fewer outfits for a weekend away.

While only one in 10 men think it is reasonable to use four products to wash and style their hair, a third of all women surveyed think that is perfectly reasonable. (Then again, the survey did not account for men who had lost their hair.)

When shopping in a drug store's personal care aisle, 81 percent of women like to spend more than five minutes shopping, with one in five stating they "just love it there." Men, on the other hand, tend to "grab and go," with two-thirds spending 30 seconds or less in that section of the store, and 11 percent claiming they spend zero time there.

Respondents were asked to identify their least favourite activity from a list of four choices: bathing suit shopping; writing thank-you notes; putting gas in the car; or going to a musical such as Cats.

More than half (54 percent) of Canadian women surveyed said bathing suit shopping is their least favourite thing to do, while 32 per cent of men don't like that much either. Men similarly dislike writing thank-you notes (34 percent), an activity only 14 per cent of women selected. Number two on women's dislike list was putting gas in the car with 23 percent disliking this activity, versus 12 percent of men. As for musicals, while less than one in 10 women identified this as their least favourite activity, 22 percent of men would prefer Cats to be a distant memory.