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Women love men's resources. They rate men with cues of wealth (e.g. presentation of luxury goods) as more sexually attractive, while men don't care about this.<ref>http://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.12.2014.1.1</ref> | Women love men … 's ''resources''. They rate men with cues of wealth (e.g. presentation of luxury goods) as more sexually attractive, while men don't care about this.<ref>http://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.12.2014.1.1</ref> | ||
People pay more attention to photos of men with high status attire, but not to women with high status attire.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Dominance_hierarchy#Eye_contact</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> | People pay more attention to photos of men with high status attire, but not to women with high status attire.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Dominance_hierarchy#Eye_contact</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> | ||
Men's social status also accounts for 62% of the variance of frequency of copulation opportunities.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00029939</ref> | Men's social status also accounts for 62% of the variance of frequency of copulation opportunities.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00029939</ref> | ||
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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 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> | 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> | ||
Women dating up in education and socioeconomic status is a robust pattern across many online dating studies.<ref>https://boris.unibe.ch/72034/1/paper_HICCS_final(1).pdf See table 4</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. | ||