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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @06:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the changing-times dept.

As the number of highly educated women has increased in recent decades, the chances of "marrying up" have increased significantly for men and decreased for women, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas sociologist.

"The pattern of marriage and its economic consequences have changed over time," said lead author ChangHwan Kim, associate professor of sociology. "Now women are more likely to get married to a less-educated man. What is the consequence of this?"

Kim's co-authored the study with Arthur Sakamoto of Texas A&M University, and the journal Demography recently published their findings. They examined gender-specific changes in the total financial return to education among people of prime working ages, 35 to 44 years old, using U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 and the 2009-2011 American Community Survey.

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ChangHwan Kim, Arthur Sakamoto. Women's Progress for Men's Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by Family Standard of Living, 1990 to 2009–2011. Demography, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0601-3


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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:58AM (1 child)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:58AM (#561890) Journal

    I was reading the abstract of one paper based on brain imaging that brain gender could exist in two dimensions instead of a 1-d spectrum. Of course, big problem with all of those brain imaging studies about gender is that their sample size is always like 10 to 15. After all, putting just a tad more effort into quantifying brain gender (or entirely disproving the theory that there is a brain gender, not sure if that's what you're suggesting) would only help 0.01% (0.0001) of the population, so why bother, amirite?

    Oh, and getting a better handle on whether that number is accurate (because it's wildly inaccurate), well, that would only help 0.01% of the population, so why bother!

    Perhaps I also interpret your comment to mean that the caste system has been abolished.

    Just as an observation, it never ceases to amaze me how willfully blind people are to the things that those in the female caste have good. I think it has to do with the underpinning chauvinism of most cultures that the male gender is the authentic gender. What always gets me, though, is that there are a lot of people—assigned female gender at birth—who seem to be very clearly covetous of being a man, yet they absolutely abhor the idea of gender transition to live as the man they wished they were.

    (They envy short hair but are unable to get a haircut; they envy the effects of testosterone on the body such as increased strength and a voicebox with more resonance, but absolutely reject beginning testosterone HRT; they desire wearing men's fashions; etc etc.)

    Strange that, isn't it? They usually claim to be feminists.

  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:08AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:08AM (#561894) Journal

    I should clarify. I realize it may have seemed liked I was talking about trans men there. That's the thing, though. A trans man has the balls, in a psychic sense, to transition. Perhaps if somebody wants to suggest that feminists are closeted trans men… who are joining the flat-Earthers and anti-vaxxers in rejecting science… who feel the need to spew hate speech at trans folks… who don't feel the need to undergo themselves this psychotectic treatment that they claim exists… I dunno… at least it doesn't strike me as being the case.