Has anyone told Donald Trump yet?
THE allure of the trophy wife may be fading.
More seriously, this is something that Chris Dillow discussed recently. Assortative mating leading to a rise in income inequality. As bright and intelligent women go and get those careers that they wish to have (as is of course their right to pursue) we find that they tend to marry those bright and intelligent men who also pursue similar types of careers. We thus have a group of families with two high incomes, increasing the income gap.
What a difficult problem for someone who is both feminist and egalitarian. Which is to be decried, if either? That women now have the same freedoms in work and selection of a partner that men have historically had? Or the effects of this upon the income distribution?
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