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In terms of evolutionary biology, such instinctive behavior can be explained by [[Bateman's principle]] which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females. | In terms of evolutionary biology, such instinctive behavior can be explained by [[Bateman's principle]] which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females. | ||
Women are also physically weaker and have less power over resources, so hypergamy is in theory the most stable mate choice for women, because choosing the best man among the ones that promise continued investment a woman can attract, ensures that her partner cannot be outcompeted and threatened by an even better one (bodyguard hypothesis).<ref>http://web.simmons.edu/%7Eturnerg/MCC/Matechoice2PDF.pdf</ref> | Women are also physically weaker and have less power over resources, so hypergamy is in theory the most stable mate choice for women, because choosing the best man among the ones that promise continued investment a woman can attract, ensures that her partner cannot be outcompeted and threatened by an even better one (bodyguard hypothesis).<ref>http://web.simmons.edu/%7Eturnerg/MCC/Matechoice2PDF.pdf</ref> | ||
Researchers also suggested that hypergamy may arise from the premise that men naturally provide resources to women in return for exclusive access to sex which men desire as they want certainty that the offspring is theirs (a problem that women do not face).<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | Researchers also suggested that hypergamy may arise from the premise that men naturally provide resources to women in return for exclusive access to sex which men desire as they want certainty that the offspring is theirs (a problem that women do not face).<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | ||
<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> There are mixed results about the importance of a power differential regarding income and education for women's marital satisfaction. | |||
There are mixed results about the importance of a power differential regarding income and education for women's marital satisfaction. | |||
Higher income of the man was found to be associated with female orgasm and lower income predicted sexlessness.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513808001177</ref><ref>https://cnnespanol2.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/polletandnettle-orgasms.pdf?attredirects=1</ref> | Higher income of the man was found to be associated with female orgasm and lower income predicted sexlessness.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513808001177</ref><ref>https://cnnespanol2.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/polletandnettle-orgasms.pdf?attredirects=1</ref> | ||
Women's promotion also increased the risk of divorce.<ref>http://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp1146.pdf</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-017-0968-7</ref> | Women's promotion also increased the risk of divorce.<ref>http://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp1146.pdf</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-017-0968-7</ref> | ||