No offense to the ladies reading, but that has traditionally been the FEMALE strategy to marriage.
Never have guys pursued women for their position or status. No offense again, to ladies, but that’s just not how guys work.
Unless their goal were to have a “beard”.
Oh wait...
Didn’t John eFfing Kerry do that?
Well, if you read some older female authors, such as Jane Austen and Emily Bronte, you’ll find that the act of marrying up for money and status is common, either way. In Sense and Sensibilities, the ladies-man Willaby frequently seduces young women in order to bed them and dumps them, but when he finally gets married, he marries an extremely wealthy woman. Clearly, he married for money.
Conversely, women were pressured and advised to marry up, regardless, to the point where Jane Austen describes a mother’s sole purpose in life to marry her daughters to wealthy men.
Marrying for money is pretty much fair game across the board. The only reason its associated more with women is because at one point, it was the only way women could have anything (while Austen wrote women were not permitted to own property).
In general though, your statement about position and status is true in today’s society. I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘never,’ though.