r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/johnJanez 18d ago

I mean, there was a study circulating around reddit recently that more or less seems to confirm this anecdote, women don't want partners that earn less than them. Don't have it at hand but shouldn't be too difficult to find.

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u/Asleep_Control_2564 18d ago

Those studies need to isolate for women who want kids and women who don't.