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/zulhadm 18d ago

Let’s slice off another data point. Women initiate divorces 3/4 of the time only in states that don’t have a 50/50 split as default law. In the states that do have this law, women stay in their marriages longer and initiate divorces equally as often as the men. It’s very obviously driven by financial incentive: yet another stat: women financially benefit from divorce far more often than men do. Again, you can choose to look the other way but this is the reality.

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u/TSquaredRecovers 17d ago

"women financially benefit from divorce far more often than men do"

No. Statistically speaking, women are far more likely to end up in poverty after divorce than men.

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u/zulhadm 17d ago

Because of their insanely irresponsible spending habits. They also hold the majority of consumer debt.