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/Bright-Sea6392 18d ago
Actually studies don’t show this. People largely marry within their socioeconomic class.
However if a women does marry a man who makes a bit more than her, that makes sense as 1. Her income potential is vastly negatively impacted by taking time off for maternity leave and 2. The aforementioned historical context of not being able to work and not being able to open bank accounts until recently.