Beautiful smart talented" career woman.
Here's a clue that could save women like Kate a lot of wasted time and heartache: when it comes to intimate relationships, men want a partner, not a rival. Emotionally, men want attachment, not competition.
Get it? Good.
And yet, we are told that so many college educated career women, are unattached due to a “shortage” of men in their education/career/income categories.
We are told that women want to “marry up”, and be with a man who is older/more successful/makes more money than she does.
But the reverse doesn’t seem to be true. Does anyone ever say anything, if a college educated career man, marries a woman who works in a file clerk position, or is in a random hired help type job in an office or in a retail store?
While these are broad stereotypes, it seems that men have more choices. Men can marry someone who is their equal in education/career, etc. or they can marry down; marry someone with only a high school education or a clerical type job. But these college educated career women would never think of marrying a man who worked as hired help in an office in a “gopher” type of job, or hired help in construction/manual labor.
The problem which career women face, is that THEY demand a man who is of higher status than themselves (though they might grudgingly settle for equal status). Men, on the other hand, are looking for a WIFE, someone who will be willing to keep him sexually satisfied and bear and help raise his children, and are willing to look at women of lower career status.
In other words, the only men the aging career women would be satisfied with, have better options than to marry THEM.