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(Something I mis-posted elsewhere, in different wording) : The mechanism described by the article is quite simple: for women as a group, achieving equal or bet
by usrusr 11y ago
(Something I mis-posted elsewhere, in different wording) :
The mechanism described by the article is quite simple: for women as a group, achieving equal or better education/career while at the same time insisting on only considering a spouse of equal or better education/career just isn't sustainable. The failure mode turns out to include easy sex for a few lucky guys. Not exactly what feminism had in mind.
What the article completely ignores: it also means even less females for males of the low education/career range, who were already hard pressed by "marrying up" alone. This kind of gender imbalance is often comes with violence and is therefore a much bigger problem than some prudish outcry over sinful tinder.
Hopes should go towards self-correction in the shape of considerable erosion of the "marrying down" taboo. Once that happens, the observed disbalance will have been just a temporary fluctuation on the road to greater equality.