Cross-gender friendships in Europe and West Asia according to Facebook data

From [this new paper](https://www.ggd.world/p/can-men-and-women-be-friends-evidence) which looks at cross-gender friendships among Facebook users.

> We then
define the Cross-Gender Friending Ratio
(CGFR) in location *c* as the ratio of female
friends in men’s networks to the share of female friends in women’s networks.

Georgia is more like a Balkan country in this regard than its Muslim neighbours, although with similar rates to the coastal Levant. There is no data to compare from Russia, Central Asia or Iran.

Always knew that Rachvelebi were friendly fellas