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I was disappointed they didn't include "homemaker" or "unemployed" so you could see which professions supported a family by themselves.
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If you don't conflate gender with marriage, there's more opportunity for software developer couples.
definitely true. But same-sex marriages will not change that number pretty much at all
Ok, I can see the lopsided lawyers marrying lawyers, but how is it that software developers are so lopsidedly marrying other software developers when something like 90% of them are male? I guess pretty much every female software developer marries a male software developer which works out to the 12% number? Makes me sorta want to see a breakdown by sex. aka "male software developer has a 6% chance of marrying a softwa…
I’d imagine around 50% of married software engineers are women, so I guess the takeaway here is that male devs are doomed unless they can find a nice dev to marry?
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I’ve read that one reason wealth inequality is worse today is because high-education-high-income individuals want to marry other HEHI individuals whereas in the past this wasn’t the case. If the claim about the past is true, it seems to undermine your point
Men generally do not care about the income of their wife, as that's not what they're innately attracted to. Hypergamy is characteristic of women and hence they want to marry up, and won't settle for someone who makes less than them. The latter is a reason for why there are so many educated but unmarried women today in their 30s and 40s.
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If you don't conflate gender with marriage, there's more opportunity for software developer couples.
definitely true. But same-sex marriages will not change that number pretty much at all
As a software engineer married to a farmer-cum-production line supervisor, this is interesting. I knew we were a rare pairing, but this is very rare.
I know a SWE (not you) married to a former dairy-farmer who now does QC for a production line. Is that close enough?
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Unluckily, you cannot insure yourself against the immense risk of alimony payments if a divorce should happen.
> Unluckily, you cannot insure yourself against the immense risk of alimony payments if a divorce should happen. Of course you can. You can know thyself and know thy partner and have the maturity to understand what you're getting into, and the ability to commit despite that. EG: I know there's 0% chance that my wife and I will get divorced, not because marriage is so easy but because we're both people who are able to…
You share this mindset with every divorced guy I know, including myself. Men just don't see it coming.