For instance, 65 percent of the women surveyed said they had purchased a personal computer for home use in the last two years.

When asked whether "the current economic boom reached people like you and your family," 57 percent of women surveyed said no.

Almost half of the 211 men and 210 women surveyed said they had two hours of free time a day, or less.

Only 57 percent of women surveyed said they felt comfortable (compared with 78 percent of men).

Of the 89,538 women surveyed for the Harvard study in 1980, 601 of them got breast cancer in the next four years.

Asked if they would feel confident investing a $10,000 windfall, 88 percent of the women surveyed said yes.

On a downtown Manhattan corner yesterday, most women surveyed said they were not aware that a bathroom bill was in the works.

And only a fifth of the women surveyed say that the opportunities to advance have increased greatly in the last five years.

Instead, 60 percent of women surveyed said that women attended out of curiosity.

The women surveyed - all of whom had earned rather than inherited their wealth - took a different tack on investing, as well.