Time Magazine reached similar conclusions. Gone are the days when women's philanthropy referred only to sweet dears who ran the school auction or gussied up for a charity ball. Trish Jackson, education vice president of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, goes further in her assessment. Women demand it. Men and women approach philanthropic decisions differently.
Philanthropists also maintains that male and female philanthropists differ.
For one thing, more women than men give to charity. The study reached different conclusions about women's and men's giving habits, however. Robert Sweeney, development vice president at the University of Virginia, believes that age, not sex, governs philanthropic behavior. As corporate and entrepreneurial women come into prominence they tend to respond much more like men in their giving. They're much more issue-oriented and integrated in their thinking.