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If that's the case then why do married women not change their responses? If it's just a matter of "training" then why would getting married affect the answers?
by elindbe2 10y ago
If that's the case then why do married women not change their responses? If it's just a matter of "training" then why would getting married affect the answers? A simpler explanation is that single women realize that the type of men they would like to attract tend to prefer more feminine women. Married women don't have to care since they're not trying to attract a man.
Now sure, no woman should be forced to care about being feminine. Nor should she be forced to care about beauty or any other traits that the men she wishes to attract like. But at the same time, men shouldn't be forced to like any certain person either and if they happen to favor more feminine women, then that's 100% their choice to make.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoWow, your post was dead (I vouched it), but you are exactly right. Everyone in this thread is missing the point. Shocking to see the one scientifically valid interpretation of the article downvoted below threadshold. I thought we were pro-science on HN? If women were just "choosing" to approach their career in a different way, or had just been brainwashed, then they would react the same regardless of who is around. What this study shows is that single women expect single men to react badly to their ambition. Not that the women actually have less ambition. Yet so many in this thread are discussing this as if it's evidence that women have different inclinations. Incredible confirmation bias.
- Chris2048 10y agoToo culturally dependant. I, to some degree, have to push my (female) partner to be more ambitious. She has no problem being assertive otherwise...