Why More Men May Be “Marrying Up” In The Future

This week a few researchers published a demographic study which examined the effect of more highly educated women entering the “marriage market” and therefore creating more dual income households where women are the primary breadwinners. Rather than seeing this as triggering some sort of crisis of masculinity, the report concluded that this is likely to “lead to a faster improvement of the family standard of living for men.” Or put differently, “men are getting the benefit from women’s progress.” Gender equality, in other words, has an upside for everyone.

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