Weight, sex, work figure in Chatelaine's survey

52 per cent of women feel they need to lose at least 20 pounds; about the same (51%) of women who compare their bodies to the bodies of women they know. These, among many other revelations, are included in the report on Chatelaine's This is 40ish survey. 

The 2nd annual survey was conducted online with 1,029 women between 35 and 45 in Canada and asked some fairly nosy questions about sex and love, work and home, body and health and everything from pimples to cheating. Among some other answers the survey found:

• 49% of the respondents are married and 56% working full time
• 42% live in a city, 36% in the suburbs
• 41% suspect other couples have more sex than they do
• 60% of partnered (married, common law) fantazsize about being single again
• 25% say they've cheated on a partner (76% kept the information to themselves)
• 54% of women fantasize about quitting their jobs at least once a month
• 73% say they do the majority of cleaning
• 44% occasionally or often think about whether other couples are happier than they are