In the seven years since homosexual couples can get civil associations, 3.2 percent of male unions ended in solution, compared with 6.1 percent of female partners.
Sociologists believe that lower rates of ‘divorce’ among gay men reflect a trend of women commit sooner and have higher expectations for a relationship. Women in civil associations marry at an average age of 37.6, compared with men, whose average age is 40. Erzsebet Bukodim, a sociologist at the University of Oxford, said: "In heterosexual marriage, the divorce rate is higher if you enter marriage at a very young age. That could be one reason why we are seeing this [hig dissolution rate for women] in civil partnerships. "
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Gunnar Andersson, professor of demography at Stockholm University, has found in successive studies that women in Norway, Sweden and Denmark are twice as likely to dissolve their civil partnerships as men. He said: “This reflects trends in a heterosexual marriage because women are more prone to say they want to marry - but they’re also more likely to initiate a divorce. Women usually have higher demands on relationship quality, that’s often been said in studies. Even if you control for age there is still a trend of more women ending partnerships than men.”
Early figures show British women in heterosexual relationships are more likely to file for divorce than men. Women took divorce in two thirds of cases in the UK in 2011.
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According to Jane Czyzselska, editor of the lesbian magazine, DIVA, “Culturally women have been more conditioned to be focused on marriage than men. The stereotype of the lesbian couple who takes a U-Haul on their second date, move in and get cats is there for a reason. Due to the cultural conditioning that we have, women do seem to be committing faster.”
Civil associations increased 3.6 percent in 2012, with 7,037 taking place. The biggest increase was in Northern Ireland, where 13 percent took place, with 101 ceremonies.
Late last year there were 120,908 people in a same-sex marriage, which is "much higher" than the Government Equalities Office originally scheduled. They thought there would be between 11,000 and 22,000 civilian partners in Britain in 2010, but there were more than 79,000 earlier this year - and now are ten times more.
A quarter of all civil partnerships taking place in London and Westminster were the local authority civil unions in 2012. Brighton and Hove saw the majority of women who enter civil unions between same sex, with 101 registered associations.
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