Looking at people I know and people I've dated, employability seems like the least interesting thing to women.
That's why we always hear "where did all the good men go?" from women, even though they are surrounded by guys who throw themselves at the women.
So since more women and fewer men started going to college, the dating pool for women shrunk a lot.
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson is famous for talking about these issues on YouTube, highly recommended.
I call shenanigans. A guy will no prospects and a guitar will never be wanting for interest. It’s a cliche for a reason. Now this guy may not be husband material, but the criteria was “date”...
In this arena the status markers may be different from individual evaluation (with some general markers shared).
It's pretty common to notice that women who like guys with long hair in a band and women who like 'successful' (whatever that means) men are not usually the same, just different selection criteria at work.
Most of my friends and relatives (NL) don't even get married, but rather have a partnership agreement that is pretty much the same status as married but less hard to unbind or set up.
For people they date or for people they decide to settle down with with?