Interesting chart on hypergamy.
When sex led to procreation and people had to marry to have sex (or marry soon after!), people had a fairly good expectation that they would marry someone who matched them, more or less, in the looks, money, education matrix.
Since the traditional way of marriage has been completely destroyed by the advent of birth control and no-fault divorce, everything is a topsy-turvey mess. Women get a lot of attention when they are young, no one settles down because they want to have fun and pay off college loans, and then the women hit their 30s and become expendable while men hit their 30s and become more attractive because they have paid off their loans and are earning more money, so they go after younger women, who don’t necessarily want to marry at that point, but at least are more fun to have on one’s arm.
Everyone wonders what has happened to our society? Birth control and no-fault divorce.
it used to be called equally yoked...