The document summarizes research on the global impact of women out-earning men on partnering and marriage patterns. Key points include:
- In many countries, women are increasingly achieving higher levels of education and income compared to men.
- This "gender flip" is leading to declines in traditional marriage and partnering norms like hypergamy. Women are more willing to marry less educated or lower earning men.
- In countries like Japan and South Korea, many highly educated women struggle to find partners of equal status and remain single, contributing to low fertility rates.
- Globalization is affecting marriage through trends like "mail order brides" and women migrating for partnering opportunities.
- Independent women have more sexual
Global impact of the Gender Flip on Partnering Patterns
1. The Global Impact of
the Gender Flip on
Partnering Patterns
Leanna Wolfe, PhD
4th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Non-Monogamy
February 14, 2015
2. Considerations:
⢠Increasing numbers of women in Europe, the Americaâs and
Asia are out-earning men
⢠Marriage and partnering patterns have been and will continue
to be affected
⢠Male/Female Eroticism is up for grabs
3. Economics of the Gender Flip
⢠29% of American wives out-earn their husbands
⢠By 2050 71% more college educated women than men
⢠Similar patterns for South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Philippines,
France, Chile, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and Norway
⢠Hypergamy (women marrying up) is declining in the Western
world
⢠Marrying down more common in much of the Americas and
Western Europe
⢠66% of births to single mothers in Iceland
⢠50% in Sweden
⢠Not regarded as a social problem as in the U.S.
4. Asian Women
⢠High incidence of early 30s women are single and unlikely to
marry
⢠32% Japan
⢠37% Taiwan
⢠25% Hong Kong
⢠Fertility rates at an all-time low
⢠Taboo against unmarried childbearing
⢠Asian women do want to marry, butâŚ
⢠Seek to marry men at their level or higher
⢠High earning men prefer younger non-professional wives
⢠Well-educated high earning women are out-migrating to Europe
and the Americas
5. Globalization of Marriage
⢠Mail Order Brides
⢠South Korea
⢠Importation of Thai and Vietnamese women
⢠American men in Thailand
⢠Sex Vacations
⢠Marriage
⢠Spain
⢠Importation of rural Latin American women
⢠Spanish women marrying N. European men
6. Women with MoneyâŚ
⢠Partnering Patterns Shifting
⢠Monogamy Questioned
⢠Heteronormative Marriage Optional
⢠Polyamory
⢠Poly Singles with Independent Lives
⢠Queen Bees
⢠Sex for Pleasure
⢠Casual Sex
⢠Sex parties, hook-ups
⢠Sex Vacations
⢠Caribbean Beach Boys
⢠Yellow Cabs
⢠Kink Sexualities
⢠Lesbian and Bisexualities
7. Male Fall OutâŚ
⢠Independent Women No Longer Need Men for:
⢠Provisioning
⢠Insemination
⢠Protection
⢠No Need to Sort Out Cads from Lads
⢠Peter Pans
⢠Househusbands
8. The Uncomfortable Relationship
Between Sex and Money
⢠Victorian Sexual Expressions
⢠Provider Husband with Compliant Wife
⢠1970s Divorce Wave
⢠Prostitution
⢠Gigolos
⢠DatingâŚ
17. Whatâs Being Traded Today?
⢠What turns on todayâs women?
⢠Confident Men
⢠What turns on todayâs men??
⢠Compliant Women?
⢠Independent Women?
⢠Internet Porn?