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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ambitious, rich guys now want to end up with their coworkers, not their secretaries.  Go to an elite grad school, get a high paying job yourself, land a colleague.  Then when your career schedules are too much with kids you can slide back into the cushy role you want.[/quote]

+1. [/quote]

Another +1, from the kind of guy you want to attract (but happily married).  While a few marry hot secretaries, the senior executives at my firm making $$$ mostly marry mid-level executives.  I totally get it; these are gorgeous, fit, incredibly bright, driven women.  What's not to like.

Maybe other men want insipid wives, but the men I know with similar educational backgrounds and career trajectories like smart, ambitious women.  It can make for conflict in home life, but there is undeniable chemistry.[/quote]

Most of the people I know in the C-suite are married to homemakers. Indeed, a female CEO of a F500 I formerly worked for fits this bill. I don't believe they explicitly set out to marry stay at home partners. In fact, I think it's the opposite:  being married to a SAH partner really frees up the working spouse to be all in at work and get ahead of the pack over the years. [/quote]

They may be homemakers now but I bet most of them worked high powered jobs beforehand.  Smart, ambitious people want their spouse to be smart and ambitious as well.  CEOs expect their stay-at-home spouses to run the house like a COO (and provide good genes to their progeny).  Best way to marry a smart, educated, ambitious man is to be a smart, educated ambitious woman.[/quote]

Your bet would be wrong. What’s far more common in my circles is guy married college sweetheart/woman he met in his 20s. She takes the heavy lifting on the domestic front. He can dedicate himself to career and advances because he has more time to work than his peers. It’s why Sheryl Sandberg says one of the most important career decisions is choosing your partner wisely.   DC kind of skews this stuff and the scenario you describe is slightly more common in DC because DC is not representative of the rest of the country.

I’ve also seen this work in reverse where the woman works and the man stays home, but obviously that scenario is far less common.

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