(12-19-2024, 11:14 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(12-19-2024, 11:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: The current polling on single women says this isn't true.
The psychologists who have studied breakups in this cohort say the pattern is more that the men initiate the breakups, the women were more often willing to continue.
Perhaps the accomplished single women answering these polls don't know their own biology but I suspect they know it better than either of us do.

I'd love to see your work on that statement. Women initiate ~70% of breakups, so I'd really like to see your evidence.

Quote:But even if these women don’t prioritize dating a man with a degree or a prestigious job, many of the men without those credentials don’t want to date them. In the U.S. and elsewhere, Marcia C. Inhorn, a Yale anthropologist, told me, mainstream cultural tradition has encouraged women to engage in hypergamy: “marrying up to a slightly older man, somebody who’s more career advanced, makes more money.” Men, meanwhile, have tended toward hypogamy, marrying someone younger, less well off, and less academically accomplished. Those norms are still so ingrained that as more women have made advances at school and work, many men have held it against them. That women’s hard-earned achievements disadvantage them romantically is a dark irony.