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This restlessness seems to be driven by a natural 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 a natural 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 suggest 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 suggest 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> | ||
This is due to the fact that men desire sex more than women, giving women a power advantage, part of what is broadly referred to 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, "purchase", sex from women.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> Females compete with each other to, "sell high", in the form of withholding sex<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> | This is due to the fact that men desire sex more than women, giving women a power advantage, part of what is broadly referred to 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, "purchase", sex from women.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> Females compete with each other to, "sell high", in the form of withholding sex,<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> slut-shaming, and gossip, whereas male sexual competition takes the form of amassing the "broad range of valued goods". This creates a situation where women "marry into" higher degrees of resources.<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. | ||