I found optometrists surprising.
1. Optometrists ~11.5%
2. Elementary/middle school teachers ~3.75%
3. Dentists ~3.5%
Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
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Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given women almost always marry up (i.e. they marry men who earn more than themselves), if you break this up by sex I am pretty sure the numbers will look very different.
In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not hard to do and will give much more relevant numbers to whomsoever it concerns.
>In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down.
It's certainly happening in Sweden, but it's far from common. An almost universal constant in research of this nature is that women highly value a partner who earns similarly or more than them.
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#333This font makes me feel drunk. It LoOkS lIkE tHiS. Is it just me?
jUsT YOu.
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#334I’m a big believer in the engineer (logical) and helping professions (emotional). match. If you look at the category of ‘software developers’ and add up all the helping professions like teachers and nurses and others it is the #1 pairing. This software engineer has been married to his teacher wife for 29 years and going strong …
Definitely with you on this one. Not married (yet), but my partner is a nurse (by education) and I am a data scientist. Among her (ex-)colleagues, the proportion of marrying to engineers/IT guys/... was significant.
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not hard to do and will give much more relevant numbers to whomsoever it concerns.
>In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. It's certainly happening in Sweden, but it's far from common. An almost universal constant in research of this nature is that women highly value a partner who earns similarly or more than them.
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Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
Marriage is actually a great financial choice for most people. If marriage rates are dropping, I'd blame our culture — the financial incentives are clearly there.
It's a shame to marry because of financial incentives.
Why? Marriage has always been a financial/political thing. Love marriage is a recent invention
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
> women are attracted to money and status! Not men!!! Professionals I know in the 20-35 cohort only want to date other professionals. The ones that don’t want some weird stay at home trophy wife dynamic. There’s nothing provably innate about some men preferring trophy wives. There is a lot of availability due to cultural baggage. The phenomenon that you’re talking about is culturally bound. Anecdotally my wife makes…
It’s not a weird dynamic. There is a threshold where if your partner isn’t making some meaningful amount of money relative to you, it’s better for them to just not work at all than spend 40 hours a week toiling away for a pittance of a paycheck. What is there to gain from having a wife work as a cashier when you make 10x as much as her? You either want to be a power couple or just get the best partner you can and off…
Trophy wife is not just about being stay at home. The term expresses lack of respect toward that wife, whose role is to look pretty and is not expected to contribute, to be knowledgeable nor have skills.
Second, men who earn a lot don't marry cashiers all that often. They want to marry within the same social class. They marry educated women whose earning potential is better then minimum wage.
Third, being stay at home partner comes with price and nowdays people really do it overwhelmingly because of children. The childless stay at home woman is mostly a rarity.
Partly because being dependent and fully paid by him comes with resentment and expectations on his side. The "I am working and you are just spending my money" feeling is one argument away. And partly because being bored, lonely and feeling useless most of time causes issues with her. Their interests and needs become different, so they diverge.
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given women almost always marry up (i.e. they marry men who earn more than themselves), if you break this up by sex I am pretty sure the numbers will look very different.
In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not hard to do and will give much more relevant numbers to whomsoever it concerns.
Do you have a source for this?
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you'd see a lot of professions of people who culturally value a homemaker, not anything about the highest paying careers. My guess is that the list you describe would be dominated by the trades, trucking, and small business ownership.
Are there people who don't value a homemaker? You don't value good home-cooked food? A clean house? Clean clothes? Children clothed and fed? Everything else your mother did for you?
My mom worked. Basically all moms with kids over 3 years old worked.
Re: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not hard to do and will give much more relevant numbers to whomsoever it concerns.
Do you have a source for this?
Sorry, just anecdata from people I know. Perhaps I should not have posted.