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A woman might go shopping or to a movie with her best female friend on Saturday afternoon. A man might gather a group of male business contacts for golf or to watch a ball game on television. Probably so but maybe not, women and men both say. Men are just as likely as women to have long-term, mutually nurturing friendships as women, but they don t always express those friendships the same ways as women. Women are much more likely to have close intimate ties with other people, said Mary White Stewart, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.