National Affairs: Social Code: Let Her Pay

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Women call men for dates now—and fairly often share the expenses or pick up the tabs. At business lunches women used to resort to elaborate subterfuges—paying the check on the way to the ladies' room, or even slipping the money under the table to a male guest so that he could seem to pay the bill. Now men no longer seem mortified by having women pay. With a certain bonhomie, a man may demand of a woman: "Are you buying?"