The decade-long research of 5,000 men and women by Michael McGill, published in 1985, corroborates this. He reports: To say that men have no intimate friends seems on the surface too harsh. . . . But the data indicates that it is not far from the truth. Even the most intimate of friendships (of which there are few) rarely approach the depth of disclosure a woman commonly has with many other women. . . . Men do not value friendship.3
