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and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times as many messages. But lots of evidence can also be elsewhere, for example men would much more readily agree to unsolicited invitations to sex and they less likely regret casual sex. | and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times as many messages. But lots of evidence can also be elsewhere, for example men would much more readily agree to unsolicited invitations to sex and they less likely regret casual sex. | ||
[[Hypergamy]] in women, i.e. | [[Hypergamy]] in women, i.e. their tendency or preference to ''date up'', is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, a woman tends to not only want a good partner, but one who is better than herself 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 or marry men with lower income than their own, and preferring to remain single when they cannot 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 or marry men with lower income than their own, and preferring to remain single when they cannot 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> | ||