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It's just different preferences. Men select on beauty and women select on success.

• lotsofpulp 4y ago
  All of my higher earning men friends are married to similar higher earning (or accomplished) women, or they are single. Maybe at the very high earning end, some are okay with an extremely attractive woman for the sake of being attractive, but from what I can tell in the engineer/lawyer/doctor/business owner demographic, people generally want someone at a similar achievement level (or at least that can pretend to be). In my immigrant diaspora, I can see the change between older cousins married off in 90s and early 2000s, and younger ones married in the last decade. The older ones frequently have stay at home moms that never had a career. Almost all the younger couples are dual working professionals, with even men eschewing a partner completely if they cannot land a similar working partner.