In dating both men and women can show great interest when they find an exceptional (in their eyes) mate. By interest I mean asking out or asking for a person's number.

In my observation, women tend to still hold themselves in a passive role most of the time, often avoiding from being openly interested, I believe partially due to social conditioning.

In other words, they never get taught that they need to do the first move if they are interested in a guy, and instead rely on converted signals. Men are usually encouraged to be open and direct.

While I would agree women approach less directly because probably there are deep evolutionary reasons for it, I think in our modern society we should promote women being more active.

One big simple reason for this is that women end up being more selective than men anyway. It only makes sense for women to make the first move, as men are rejected more often statistically.

How do you feel about this concept?