According to an article on Salon...
Apparently the research long used to argue that well-educated and successful women price themselves out of the marriage market (because men prefer "women in subordinate jobs") is seriously flawed -- one study used data solely from people born in 1921, and the other merely surveyed a "few hundred undergrads."
That last one gets me -- I'm imainging someone handing out a survey to a bunch of fratboys looking to make $10 in beer money from some kind of social research department, and they write things like "Yeah, bitches, if I gotta get married, I'm gonna marry a sexy stewardess! Yeah!"
And then the guy next to him is like "I'll marry a secretary and she'll get my coffee -- and DICK-tate whatever I want! Awesome!" And they high-five and take their $10 each back to Alpha Sigma Sigma.
Then, ten years later, they're both like "Dude, I want a chick who's a lawyer! She could, like, buy a condo!"
"Dude, you're so right!"
High-five!
Apparently the research long used to argue that well-educated and successful women price themselves out of the marriage market (because men prefer "women in subordinate jobs") is seriously flawed -- one study used data solely from people born in 1921, and the other merely surveyed a "few hundred undergrads."
That last one gets me -- I'm imainging someone handing out a survey to a bunch of fratboys looking to make $10 in beer money from some kind of social research department, and they write things like "Yeah, bitches, if I gotta get married, I'm gonna marry a sexy stewardess! Yeah!"
And then the guy next to him is like "I'll marry a secretary and she'll get my coffee -- and DICK-tate whatever I want! Awesome!" And they high-five and take their $10 each back to Alpha Sigma Sigma.
Then, ten years later, they're both like "Dude, I want a chick who's a lawyer! She could, like, buy a condo!"
"Dude, you're so right!"
High-five!
amorpheus:
So very, very true.