Trusted, Automoderated users
25,837
edits
Hypergamy: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Academic overview
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
===Academic overview=== | ===Academic overview=== | ||
'''In academia''', researchers 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 academia''', researchers 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 | This is due to the fact that men desire sex more than women, giving women an upper hand in sexual exchange, 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 with this broad array of (often non-monetary) resources.<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". When men compete in terms of resources and women raise the resource cost of sex, this creates a situation where the men with the most resources get the most sexual access.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> Women partner up with men who have the most resources on offer. | ||
There are mixed results about the importance of a power differential regarding income and education for women's marital (aka post-wedding) satisfaction. | There are mixed results about the importance of a power differential regarding income and education for women's marital (aka post-wedding) satisfaction. | ||