> Many of the men I know who have "found a female" are not particularly wealthy or successful We don't need to speculate based on anecdotal evidence, we can ju

> Many of the men I know who have "found a female" are not particularly wealthy or successful We don't need to speculate based on anecdotal evidence, we can just use the data readily available to us. For example, Swedish data where income and family records are public information. Within the same age groups, adult males below the 50% income line has twice the risk of being fatherless compared to above the 50% line. The further a male drop in income the lower the chance of having children of their own, and that by a very significant margin. >> but I wouldn't see it so much as a male domination phenomenon but as a self pressure to be accepted or liked There is an other word for this: social status. Women compete with other women on the social status ladder. This is why women spend more time on beauty if a group has more female members compared to more male members. The more male dominate a group is, the less the standards of beauty is applied. Naturally the same apply to men. In a male dominated group you see more male social status competition over wealth and success. Males in female dominated groups do not need to as much. In both cases we have to consider that humans are complex and participate in multiple social status groups at the same time and will bleed behavior between them.