“We Studied The Sexual Preferences Of High Income Women”

The gist

1. In cities like New York and Boston, women under 30 now out-earn men by around $31,000 to $32,000 a year.
2. High-earning women raise their standards across the board, applying the same perfectionism to dating that helped them succeed at work.
3. Williamson notes a gap between what top-earning women say they want and who they actually date, often because equally accomplished men are scarce.
4. Evolutionary psychology predicted these findings better than social role theory, which had expected wealthy women to care less about a partner's income.