Comments on: Assortative Sex Ratios

By: Tom G

Tom G — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 09:29:24 +0000

“Statistically speaking, an atheist meeting may be one of the best places for single women to meet available men.” << I don't believe there are good statistics on "atheist meetings".

Almost certainly better would be for women to go to sports bars, and get involved in learning to enjoy watching and talking about some sport.

By the way, weight gyms in Slovakia do seem have seen an increase in women lifting, like with Cross-Fit.

Wine tasting or restaurant testing might be good too, but the most single straight men are most likely watching sports.

A related article talked about 2 different growing Jewish communities, one where the custom is for men and women the same age to pair off and marry, one where the men are usually 2 or 3 years older. The same age pairing is not seeing an excess women problem, but the older men/younger women group is seeing a problem.

Finally, the vast majority of college educated women looking for "equality" in housework are going to be disappointed — they should be planning on hiring a housekeeper for a couple of days per week to do big cleaning so neither partner has to. And pay for this, perhaps by having the man plan on cooking a nice dinner a few days a week. While few men will be happy doing housework, many can learn to be happy cooking stuff they like and which they find their women like.

By: Tom G

Tom G — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 07:01:51 +0000

Trump shows this happening a bit right now — Eddie Murphy seems proud of the different mothers for his kids.
In Slovakia, “Sme Rodina” (We are Family) is a political party that go into Parliament, with a leader who’s the father of many children from different wives & lovers.

The Christian Democrats, which I support, failed to get the 5% needed to get in (first time in the 26 years of democracy).

By: One of the dudes

One of the dudes — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:40:10 +0000

Yes, because of the medieval cultural inelegance of it, and the unappealing status for the educated women.

But the evolutionary ‘invisible hand’ is pretty strong and will find a way. A more likely scenario is that high status educated women pick the (few) high status educated successful men to father their child, then after a few years the said men move on and father other children with other educated women, and so on. Multiple wives, not at the same time.

By: collin

collin — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:38:59 +0000

It happens all the time and in California there was a lot of construction workers married to teacher college graduate women. Probably the bigger problem I see on assortative mating hypothesis is education is a wrong measurement especially to the 1950 – 1970 compared to today.

There was a lot less ‘marrying’ down in the 1950s because it was not expected women went to college for most classes. Additionally, what is also missed is how many potential doctors or lawyer women chose to become nurses, teachers or housewives because that is norm of society.

By: RohanV

RohanV — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:54:07 +0000

Statistically speaking, an atheist meeting may be one of the best places for single women to meet available men.

As they say, “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:30:13 +0000

I’d doubt this will lead to a multiple wives model.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:30:57 +0000

But then why is it assumed that women would be marrying down if they have a sociology degree and their husband owns a landscaping business?

I think the commenters are missing the point.

By: SeanV

SeanV — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:23:28 +0000

It also depends on what we mean by marrying down. If Don Draper’s wives would be “marrying down”, then I guess…you know, if she’s prepared to take out the garbage and whatnot.

By: Max Marty

Max Marty — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:05:51 +0000

Ahem… We already have a very clear solution to this problem.

It’s called same-sex marriage.

By: collin

collin — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:34:16 +0000

Like most other comments, please stop assuming the Mad Men era reflected that men were marrying down in the social class. Women did not have the same access to either the college or labor markets so the marriage choices were completely different back then. Also, we should focus more on first marriages and realize the marriages choices in the 1950 – 1970 reflected a lot more Shotgun Weddings instead of the modern age with birth control. Look at the teen pregnancy rates in the 1950s which were four times as high as they are today and realize 90% of the teenage moms were married. (Does not reflect if they were at conception.)

Realize the marriage choices changed dramatically (and remember it took a couple generations here) because women had equal access to the labor (and education) markets.