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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Marry a woman who can make bank. You will regret it if you don’t. [/quote]

Why would they want to marry him. [/quote]
dp.. because he also makes bank.  Do you think women who make a lot want to marry men who make 1/10th of what they do?[/quote]

I knew a lot of women in my med school class who were looking for this.  Good men who are comfortable with this are hard to find.  [/quote]
they were looking for this while in med school. Is that how it turned out when they hit real life after graduating and working?  [/quote]

Is what how it turned out?  
Not many of them found it.  A couple did.  A couple thought they did and got divorced. A lot of people married higher earning men and stepped back in their own careers.  It’s just easier to find a man who is willing to make more money than it is to find a man who is willing to take on the role of primary caregiver/trailing spouse.  I work at a teaching hospital and see this still in my residents now.

By the time my friends from med school graduated and were working, most people were settled. The few women who weren’t married or dating someone seriously by then (early to mid-thirties) never really got married. [/quote]

Wow this is spot on. I'm an MD from another country (trailing spouse) and this phenomenon is true there too.
My sister married a self-employed guy and now he is the primary parent to their two young kids. I also know another couple where the mom is a surgeon and the dad quit when the kids were small, now that the kids are mostly self-sufficient he is a small business owner. Otherwise I agree most female MDs who marry other MDs scale way back and go part time if they can, otherwise becomes the primary parent if the partner relocates a lot (like my MD PhD husband).[/quote]

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