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In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not
by medstrom 5y ago
In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not hard to do and will give much more relevant numbers to whomsoever it concerns.
- dagw 5y agoDo you have a source for this?
- medstrom 5y agoSorry, just anecdata from people I know. Perhaps I should not have posted.
- siva7 5y agoI got one: https://theblog.okcupid.com/how-important-college-is-to-millennial-daters-760c2c72e6f9 https://theblog.okcupid.com/how-important-college-is-to-mill... It's the same in germany. It also comes down that people here don't care that much about degrees but value other things more if they have to choose.
- dagw 5y agoDating and marrying are two hugely different things. Stereotypically, dating unemployed musicians and artists few years before marrying a white collar worker from your own social background is almost a rite of passage.
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- Gareth321 5y ago>In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. It's certainly happening in Sweden, but it's far from common. An almost universal constant in research of this nature is that women highly value a partner who earns similarly or more than them.
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- medstrom 5y agoJust a nitpick, but it doesn't matter what you value if you can't find it. Else the data would look quite different, e.g. all incels would be married. So what matters is what women find, not what they value.
- Jensson 5y ago> it doesn't matter what you value if you can't find it Sure does, you just don't marry if you don't find anyone you want to marry. It is that simple. For example, we can see that even in Sweden women who earn less are more likely to marry and men who earn more are more likely to marry. Women who earn a lot are less likely to find a partner they like as you say.
- spurgu 5y agoInconvenient truths. There are differences between sexes? Shocker!