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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think its slightly different -- high earning, well educated men want women with similar levels of education. They don't want an undereducated (relatively speaking) woman to have children with and to raise their children. This means highly educated men marry highly educated women, who, not surprisingly, often end up in well paying careers. So, it's the education that really matters, not the high salary. HLS big law partners are going to marry similarly educated women, who may also end up in big law and earn $$$, but who often end up in lower paid positions (e.g., at NGOs, fed govt, etc.) after kids due to the time demands. The SAHMs who never end up going back are not the ones with JDs from HLS or PhDs from Chicago...[/quote]

This. It’s also about marrying someone with self-confidence who believes they have something to contribute to the world. I think the self-confidence is key to being able to project yourself into a public role. It’s not that nurturing a family isn’t important. But it doesn’t require you to deal with a public role and be accountable to people in a public capacity. That can be very nerve wracking for some people.

TLDR; confident men go for confident women. That usually translates as some parity in education or career.[/quote]

And a lot of umc parenting nowadays requires the mom to have awareness of certain things and not be out of that world. Look at applying to college, for example . A mom who went to an Ivy and, say, works at a nonprofit after leaving Wall Street has the awareness and is current and can help and has the time and can help her kid talk to people in her network who went to different schools. Versus your sahm who never went back and never had a career or impressive education.[/quote]

Non profit is not earning money is she. Very different from the original claim of two big earning jobs and having the money to outsource everything else.[/quote]

She's also not staying home letting her spouse be the sole breadwinner. She's educated, employed, and has a lot of potential. She's not just hot and sweet, which is all that matters supposedly to a few people chiming in on what men really want. They think it's just a coincidence she is also Ivy educated and the man gave not a thought in the world about her values and background.[/quote]

I don’t know what to say. Technically that high rolling lifestyle is funded by the DH with the big job.  It’s cute she has that nice non profit job but once it detracts from vacationing during the summer or the volunteering at the children’s school it becomes a negative. [/quote]

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