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It's actually sadly even worse for women for another reason - they cannot date "down" for natural psychological reasons and the pool of "marriageable" men is shrinking due to less men getting education (which is perceived as "high-status" regardless of income, unless the latter is unusually high):

http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...

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Eh, I don't really have time at the moment to get into why I disagree that women "can't" date down, but I saw that article and this was what I said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299641

Women do face actual challenges different from men in trying to figure out how to balance work and personal life and so on, but ...it's complicated and ....I have something else I really need to work on right now.

Ciao.

As you said in your post:

> Most women still want men who are their equal or superior in terms of career success and income, as the article makes clear.

Sure. But there is substantial difference between "most women want" and "woman cannot...."

I don't disagree that most women will not marry down. That doesn't mean they cannot marry down.

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