That’s just crazy talk!

For a lot of history, marrying for romantic love just wasn’t the norm. Women examining a potential spouse for intelligence and financial stability rather than swoony romantic emotions makes sense. Marriage was a business transaction which they had very little control over.

One of the most interesting bits of Rosin’s End of Men was her cross cultural observation that those who achieved or surpassed financial and educational equality with men - and while we’re certainly nowhere near that across the spectrum, there are also enough cohorts where we are and it’s something that can be studied…

It’s just like you’d guess: Men primarily want younger, more attractive women, and women primarily want someone ambitious with financial stability. Again, this isn’t new. We know that high-achieving women have famously complained of a lack of eligible men they consider their intellectual equals. Heartthrob George…