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and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times more messages. | and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times more messages. | ||
[[Hypergamy]] is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, a woman not only wants a good partner, but he must be better than her or better than other available partners. E.g. women with higher income tend to have preference for a man with even higher income.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-103408</ref> | [[Hypergamy]] is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, a woman not only wants a good partner, but he must be better than her or better than other available partners or her current partner. E.g. women with higher income tend to have preference for a man with even higher income.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-103408</ref> | ||
Women are also prone to instability when they are more attractive than their male partner.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691500505X</ref> | Women are also prone to instability when they are more attractive than their male partner.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691500505X</ref> | ||
There is evidence of some women refusing to date down in educational status and marry men with lower income than their own, and preferring to remain single when they don't find such a partner.<ref>https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref><ref>https://fee.org/articles/why-single-women-are-way-more-likely-to-own-a-home-than-single-men/</ref><ref>https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-release/journal-marriage-and-family/do-unmarried-women-face-shortages-partners-us-marriage-mar</ref> | There is evidence of some women refusing to date down in educational status and marry men with lower income than their own, and preferring to remain single when they don't find such a partner.<ref>https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref><ref>https://fee.org/articles/why-single-women-are-way-more-likely-to-own-a-home-than-single-men/</ref><ref>https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-release/journal-marriage-and-family/do-unmarried-women-face-shortages-partners-us-marriage-mar</ref> | ||