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Women, you should probably avoid the guy who wants to pay every time and you should probably be the one to break the ice on the fair pay topic at some point. I must confess that I am no expert here, but my recommendation would be the same as it is for hetero dates – either split the bill or if the date is going great, offer to pick up this tab if your date gets the next.Determining how much you/your date/or both of you should spend on a date is a completely separate issue.Either way, if the guy is initiating the date, then he needs to pay the tab.If there is a second or third date, then they can discuss finances, but the cost of that first date should fall on the guy.With that said, cultural and dating norms have, in many ways, shifted to accommodate evolving preferences and mindsets.Assumed gender roles do not necessarily apply, and the man is not always the primary breadwinner.Basically the tradition of the male being expected to pick up the tab started way back in the 1920’s when dating became common because few women had high paying jobs or any jobs at all relative to their male counterparts.

However, as many answers here note, you have to base this understanding off the specific demands and needs of your partner and decide whether or not you are compatible based on shared (or lack of shared) beliefs.Equality-minded arguments on this issue play both ways, with some arguing that the gender wage gap — by the most recent count, women’s median earnings are 83% of men’s — justifies this continued male-tilted check burden.Certainly, though women have more economic agency than they ever have before, their salaries continue to lag behind male earnings, statistics show.As far as I'm concerned, the guy should pay for the first date.And if he really wants this to go somewhere, he should pay for the second, as well.