The headline for this supposed survey is very misleading. Perhaps there are reasons why today Russian women may wish to be men. First, because since the end of WWII- the achievements of Russian women in the battlefield of WWII were suppressed; women were forcibly demobilized and send back to the homes and factors. Women’s heroic efforts such as famous Night Witches were assigned to the dust pine of historical achieves. The Russian ideal human being became the male soldier and male engineer and the male astronaut even when there were female astronauts. But things took worse turn for Russian women with the end of Soviet Union. Many became the sole breed winners of their families, many more became cheap labour including sexual prostitutes the west and inside Russia we see the rise of a new woman: the beauty queen! Now, we see the result of these sad developments. Now we also now the rate of violence against women is very high in Russia. So what is so surprising of millions of Russian girls wished that they were men?

I didn't need a survey to expose this reality about Russian womenhood.
They spend all day chopping wood, fixing the roof, feeding the cows, and then crawl into bed still wearing muddy felt boots and drinking from a bottle of vodka. Fat smelly Valodja, in the meantime, is picking at his navel and ogling at a sex magazine wondering why his derevnaya baba isn't like the ladies in the centerfold.
The Russian men treat their women like laborers and drinking buddies - no wonder that a third of the women feel its better to be a man.

You mean they want a man ,to many pooftas around,Anyway if they looking for a for a  knight in shining armour and stories of gallantary ,I am last knight around.