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Higher income of the man was found to be associated with female orgasm and lower income predicted sexlessness. | Higher income of the man was found to be associated with female orgasm and lower income predicted sexlessness. | ||
Women's promotion also increased the risk of divorce.<ref>http://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp1146.pdf</ref> | Women's promotion also increased the risk of divorce.<ref>http://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp1146.pdf</ref> | ||
However another study did not find effects for marriage satisfaction and likelihood of women's divorce initiation. | However another study did not find effects for marriage satisfaction and likelihood of women's divorce initiation.<ref></ref> | ||
Aversion to having the wife earn more than the husband did, however, explain 29% of the decline in marriage rates over the last thirty years.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref> | Aversion to having the wife earn more than the husband did, however, explain 29% of the decline in marriage rates over the last thirty years.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref> | ||
Also women's attractiveness ratings are 1,000 times more sensitive to men's income than vice-versa, and women also rate men with high status cues (e.g. presentation of luxury goods) as more sexually attractive, while men don't care about this. | Also women's attractiveness ratings are 1,000 times more sensitive to men's income than vice-versa,<ref>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.008</ref> | ||
and women also rate men with high status cues (e.g. presentation of luxury goods) as more sexually attractive, while men don't care about this.<ref>http://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.12.2014.1.1</ref> | |||
Men's social status also accounts for 62% of the variance of frequency of copulation opportunities.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00029939</ref> | Men's social status also accounts for 62% of the variance of frequency of copulation opportunities.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00029939</ref> | ||
Small and mixed effects in existing relationships and marriages suggest that relationships have mostly already passed the hypergamous filter, i.e. already mostly fulfill the condition for the man being the most valuable man available. | Small and mixed effects in existing relationships and marriages suggest that relationships have mostly already passed the hypergamous filter, i.e. already mostly fulfill the condition for the man being the most valuable man available which may not only be decided by the measures of power differential used in the studies (income and education status), but also physical dominance, physical attractiveness, peer popularity and workplace status. | ||
There are indications that hypergamy has intensified in recent time. | There are indications that hypergamy has intensified in recent time. | ||