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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How weird. Most women I know married down or are single.  Most women I know are bright well-educated women with good careers and good income. They end up with guys who aren't hard workers or expect them to take on the nearly full load of parenting.

I don't know any women who looks at marrying as a form of social climbing - men are unreliable: as much as his social status/income can help a women rise, when the man divorces or behaves badly the woman is stuck in a very bad position. Bo one wants to rely on a man. Better to rely on oneself. [/quote]

That’s you and your friends. This is not the reality around the country. Most women have lower paying jobs. Most women marry up.
90% of fortune 500 CEOs are men. Their wives have married up. You can keep going down the ladder and the story will be the same.[/quote]

This is being researched.  I believe what is happening in the US is assortative mating (like marries like).

As women become more financially successful, men often can't keep up unless their wives can help.  Educated men and women are more frequently marrying their equals now.  It's less cool to marry down.

https://www.nber.org/digest/may14/assortative-mating-and-income-inequality

What does seem to be happening when one partner has an extreme job is that the other partner steps back.  This happens for executive women just like it does for men.
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