“I’d guess most men view earning potential in women as a positive, just as less of a positive than women view it in men.”
All else being equal, it would be a positive. I want a woman who knows a whole lot more than me in her field of specialty so we can take turns mansplaining stuff to each other. Plus who wouldn’t appreciate a little ext…
“I’d guess most men view earning potential in women as a positive, just as less of a positive than women view it in men.”
All else being equal, it would be a positive. I want a woman who knows a whole lot more than me in her field of specialty so we can take turns mansplaining stuff to each other. Plus who wouldn’t appreciate a little extra household income?
Where that falls apart is looking at the types of personalities that tend towards the top of the income distribution. It’s the thirst for knowledge that I’m looking for, which might have *some* correlation with income, but on the other hand, social ambition and the wealth it can bring are actively off-putting for me. I’ll take a broke grad student over a successful but socially-competitive ladder-climber any day.
Makes perfect sense, and for what it’s worth I’d also take the grad student over the ladder climber (but still, on average women care relatively more about earning potential than men do)
“I’d guess most men view earning potential in women as a positive, just as less of a positive than women view it in men.”
All else being equal, it would be a positive. I want a woman who knows a whole lot more than me in her field of specialty so we can take turns mansplaining stuff to each other. Plus who wouldn’t appreciate a little extra household income?
Where that falls apart is looking at the types of personalities that tend towards the top of the income distribution. It’s the thirst for knowledge that I’m looking for, which might have *some* correlation with income, but on the other hand, social ambition and the wealth it can bring are actively off-putting for me. I’ll take a broke grad student over a successful but socially-competitive ladder-climber any day.
Makes perfect sense, and for what it’s worth I’d also take the grad student over the ladder climber (but still, on average women care relatively more about earning potential than men do)