Maureen Dowd picks up where Ann Althouse left off last week:
"As Dr. Stephanie Brown, the lead author of the study, summed it up for reporters: 'Powerful women are at a disadvantage in the marriage market because men may prefer to marry less-accomplished women.' Men think that women with important jobs are more likely to cheat on them.
'The hypothesis,' Dr. Brown said, 'is that there are evolutionary pressures on males to take steps to minimize the risk of raising offspring that are not their own.' Women, by contrast, did not show a marked difference in their attraction to men who might work above or below them."
Sigh....this is so depressing.
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"To put it in layman's terms," continued Dr. Brown, "nobody wants to marry a skank..."
What a load of shit... apparently the brainiacs doing this study are unaware that women who hold "important" jobs tend to have to work a hell of a lot harder than men to get and keep them, and therefore tend not to have a lot of free time to have one, much less multiple, relationships... powerful women are at a disadvantage in the marriage market for the same reason doughy men buy Corvettes and big stupid SUVs, if you ask me.