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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ironically, this results in both ambitious, careerist women and low status men having a lower fertility rate.

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Well maybe for the ambitious careerist women. They are actually low status for the men with money. Why would you want to marry/date some one who is busy working for a living?

Hey let’s go to LA for the weekend

...oh I can’t have work.

Hey got a business meeting in London. Why don’t you come out with me on Wednesday. You can shop on Friday and we can have a great weekend?

...oh I can’t no vacation days!

Hey just closed that big deal! We are going to paint this town red!

...oh I can’t have work. [/quote]

I guess you basically want someone who is going to cater to your schedule instead of you compromising with their schedule.[/quote]

Some men on here can scream this to the heavens and it is of course true for some, but the data is in; we are primarily engaged in assortative dating and marriage at this point in time. The men with money, are not marrying the, "I can drop everything on a whim because I have little going on" fill-in-the-blank low paying, low commitment job woman. This was partially true at some point, but it is NOT now. As younger and younger people are entering into marriage, this is being solidified. I am mid 30's and I know very few, if any, couples where the man has the expectation that they would be with someone who could drop everything on a dime to go along for a business trip just for fun, nor do most of them look for this all-availability in the dating process. Even if you end up with a SAHM, if you're a top guy, you aim to "put your wife out of work" as my Wall Street friends say. That means her 500k salary is such a pittance it's not worth it anymore. But, big BUT, you both probably had big careers at some point. And yeah, she couldn't always call in "rich boyfriend" at every opportunity.  [/quote]

+1 I know some really really wealthy millennial men, wealthy like partying with the elite set, private jets, galas. None of their wives weren’t accomplished. Sure they may now be SAHMs, but the usual story is that they either met at the Ivy League they both studied at or Harvard law school at the same powerhouse jobs. Once she got married and had kids she stopped working but there’s still the live in nanny. The really rich guy marrying the waitress, those days are long gone.[/quote]

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