Study - Women office-workers prefer computers to men

Nearly all American women office workers say they like or love this major player in their lives, even if it causes many of them pain, a study showed today. But they aren't talking about their partner, family, a friend or even personal trainer - they're talking about their computer.

An online poll of more than 2,600 US adults conducted by Harris Interactive shows women office workers spend nearly triple the amount of time with their computer as they do with their significant other - 9.3 hours with the disk drive and keyboard compared with 3.6 hours with their human partner.

And only one in five of the women says she wishes she could spend more time with her partner than with her computer, even if the latter causes them pain, often in the form of carpal tunnel syndrome, according to the poll.