Do men really not care about a woman’s career?

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Anonymous wrote:It truly baffles me how many people act like all career-focused women are homely and all low-ambition aspiring SAHM are beautiful. That’s really not how it works.

True but higher percentage of SAHM mom are prettier and get more men willing to marry them as it is, while plain women have to add additional value with degrees, career and income.

Freakonomics has done a number of episodes on female beauty. Bottom lines- working women tend to score higher on attractiveness, which is likely because beauty carries a premium in the workforce (for both men and women).

This doesn't mean that all working women are more beautiful than all SAHMs. Only that, in the studies reviewed by the Freakonomics podcast crew, the data suggested that working women tend to score higher on that scale.

That makes sense if you think about it, bc working women have to dress and groom to please a wider audience.

Yep--and at the top of that scale are likely women in client-facing jobs because their jobs are the ones where beauty carries the biggest premium.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care about her actual career, but she needs to have a bachelors degree & not from an online or for-profit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How true is it that men would rather marry a hot woman with no career of her own than marry an average woman with a career that matched his?

My wife is a SAHM and former nonprofit worker so, yeah, literally don’t care. We do just fine with one income.

However I didn’t marry her for hotness. I married her because she’s a great person generally and, as predicted, a great mother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care about her actual career, but she needs to have a bachelors degree & not from an online or for-profit

That’s a useless metric.

People can be smart without degrees. And people with degrees can be stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that we spent 10 pages in this thread discussing George and Amal Clooney shows that their situation is the exception, not the rule and thus barely relevant to this discussion. Contrast their story with the 100s of rich/famous man with 20+ years younger hot "influencer" woman.

Their relationship is the rule because he married a woman SIXTEEN years younger than him. She is way younger and hot. So her job was a small bonus but call me back when he dates someone with a high profile job and she appropriate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that we spent 10 pages in this thread discussing George and Amal Clooney shows that their situation is the exception, not the rule and thus barely relevant to this discussion. Contrast their story with the 100s of rich/famous man with 20+ years younger hot "influencer" woman.

Their relationship is the rule because he married a woman SIXTEEN years younger than him. She is way younger and hot. So her job was a small bonus but call me back when he dates someone with a high profile job and she appropriate.

I mean to say age appropriate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that we spent 10 pages in this thread discussing George and Amal Clooney shows that their situation is the exception, not the rule and thus barely relevant to this discussion. Contrast their story with the 100s of rich/famous man with 20+ years younger hot "influencer" woman.

Their relationship is the rule because he married a woman SIXTEEN years younger than him. She is way younger and hot. So her job was a small bonus but call me back when he dates someone with a high profile job and she appropriate.

I mean to say age appropriate

It’s not like she was 18 and he was 34.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care about her actual career, but she needs to have a bachelors degree & not from an online or for-profit

That’s a useless metric.

People can be smart without degrees. And people with degrees can be stupid.

No, it isn’t. Your entire comment is telling. I would want to be with someone who highly valued formal education & academic achievement, and would for our future kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care about her actual career, but she needs to have a bachelors degree & not from an online or for-profit

That’s a useless metric.

People can be smart without degrees. And people with degrees can be stupid.

Ya don’t need no book learnin’?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How true is it that men would rather marry a hot woman with no career of her own than marry an average woman with a career that matched his?

Some men would, others wouldn't. Same way, some women would rather marry a hot guy with no career than an average man with a matching career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care about her actual career, but she needs to have a bachelors degree & not from an online or for-profit

That’s a useless metric.

People can be smart without degrees. And people with degrees can be stupid.

No, it isn’t. Your entire comment is telling. I would want to be with someone who highly valued formal education & academic achievement, and would for our future kids.

Most educated women would do the same.