{"id":6351,"date":"2012-09-28T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=6351"},"modified":"2012-10-09T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:17:20","slug":"%d5%a1%d5%be%d5%a5%d5%ac%d5%ab-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%bd%d5%bf-%d5%bd%d5%a5%d5%bc%d5%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%a1%d5%be%d5%a5%d5%ac%d5%ab-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%bd%d5%bf-%d5%bd%d5%a5%d5%bc%d5%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Richer Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why Men Are Attracted to High-Earning Women<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Today\u2019s high-earning women are justly proud of their paychecks \u2014 I explore the rise of the female breadwinner in this week\u2019s\u00a0TIME cover story<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but they still often feel that men will be intimidated rather than attracted to them as potential mates. They think their success will seem too threatening and be held against them. As a result, some women in the dating pool devise camouflage mechanisms. A young ob-gyn working in Pittsburgh tells men she meets that she \u201cworks at the hospital, taking care of patients\u201d \u2014 subtly encouraging the idea that she\u2019s a nurse, not a doctor. When a university vice president in south Texas was on the dating market, she would vaguely tell men she worked in the school\u2019s administrative offices and avoid letting them walk her to her car for fear they would see her BMW. \u201cI want them to give me a chance,\u201d says the Pittsburgh doctor. \u201cI want them to at least not walk away immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But a growing body of research shows that while there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market. In February 2012, the Hamilton Project, a Brookings Institution initiative that tracks trends in earnings and life prospects, found that marriage rates have risen for top female earners \u2014 the share of women in the very top earning percentile who are married grew by more than 10 percentage points \u2014 even as they have declined for women in lower earning brackets. (The report also suggested that the decline in those lower brackets may be because women can support themselves and are dissuaded from marriage by the declining earnings of men.)<\/p>\n

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We got the first indication of a major shift back in 2001 with a study\u00a0by University of Texas at Austin psychologist David Buss that showed that when men ranked traits that were important in a marital partner, there had been a striking rise in the importance they gave to women\u2019s earnings and a sharp drop in the value they placed on domestic skills. Similarly, University of Wisconsin demographer Christine Schwartz\u00a0 noted \u00a0in a 2010 study in the\u00a0American Journal of Sociology<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cmen are increasingly looking for partners who will \u2018pull their own weight\u2019 economically in marriage\u201d and are willing to compete for them.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, men may be readier to cede their role as breadwinner than they are given credit for. Last year, Stanford University economist Ran Abramitzky, working with two European colleagues, published a fascinating study \u00a0that suggests exactly this. Looking at demographic records for the French population after World War I, they found that men in regions that had suffered higher mortality rates (and were therefore short on men) were more able to \u201cmarry up.\u201d Given the opportunity to marry into a life with more resources and prospects, the men hastened to do so. To Abramitzky, the surprise was \u201chow flexible this marriage market was\u201d and how quickly men were able to adapt to the changing demographics.<\/p>\n

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Now that women are poised to become the major breadwinners in a majority of families within the next generation, this research suggests that men will be just as adaptive and realize what an advantage a high-earning partner can be. Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.<\/p>\n

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Liza Mundy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Source: http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2012\/03\/15\/why-men-are-attracted-to-high-earning-women\/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true#ixzz1pZ499RJr<\/a><\/p>\n

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