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This restlessness seems to be driven by an evolutionarily-based fear about access to resources and by an anxiety about being stuck with a man who isn't the best one available.<ref>https://therationalmale.com/2019/03/11/womens-existential-fear/</ref> | This restlessness seems to be driven by an evolutionarily-based fear about access to resources and by an anxiety about being stuck with a man who isn't the best one available.<ref>https://therationalmale.com/2019/03/11/womens-existential-fear/</ref> | ||
In terms of evolutionary biology, such instinctive behavior is corroborated by [[Bateman's principle]], which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females. Researchers also suggested that hypergamy naturally arises, and that marriage is naturally more likely to occur the more resources a man has compared to the woman.<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | In terms of evolutionary biology, such instinctive behavior is corroborated by [[Bateman's principle]], which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females. Researchers also suggested that hypergamy naturally arises, and that marriage is naturally more likely to occur the more resources a man has compared to the woman.<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | ||
Academics also suggest this is due to the fact that men desire sex more than women, giving women a power advantage, part of what is broadly as the, "principle of least interest". Sex then becomes a "female resource for social exchange", in which a, "broad range of valued goods" are competed for by men in order to bribe women for sex<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. | ||