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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> | ||
and | and aversion to having the wife earn more than the husband explains 29% of the decline in marriage rates over the last thirty years.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref> | ||
One study, however, did not find power differentials (in terms of income and education) to affect marriage satisfaction and likelihood of women's divorce initiation,<ref>https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_gender_of_breakup.pdf</ref> | One study, however, did not find power differentials (in terms of income and education) to affect marriage satisfaction and likelihood of women's divorce initiation,<ref>https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_gender_of_breakup.pdf</ref> | ||
which may suggest that the fewer relationships that exist mostly fulfill women's hypergamous preferences and that additional power differential has diminishing returns, perhaps in part because power differentials are seen as unfavorable in today's society. | which may suggest that the fewer relationships that exist mostly fulfill women's hypergamous preferences and that additional power differential has diminishing returns, perhaps in part because power differentials are seen as unfavorable in today's society. | ||