Dr Paul Eastwick

People find this a little shocking, like, well, what about the findings where, oh, like relationships were more likely to break up when the woman earned more?

A lot of those things haven't held up to various confounds.

So even if you look in the macro trends,

You basically see this as well, that like the mismatched pairings, you know, mismatch from a gendered perspective.

So women earning more than their partners, there's really no costs to that.

At least, you know, that we see in the contemporary data.

So I think all of this.

I confess the divorce data are kind of thorny because a lot of times, yeah, they're not predicting divorce.

They're like asking people to reflect back on a divorce and asking them why it ended.

So I am I'm familiar with divorce.

with those data that you're talking about.

But generally speaking, these gender differences are very, very small.

And we can get into like the contemporary education stuff too, because that's also interesting along these lines.

Yeah, hit me.

Yeah, well-

So now we see, right, that women are earning more degrees than men, okay?

And I think some people are really worried that this is a contributor to the rise in singledom.

I think this is a red herring.

From the data that I have seen, there aren't costs to women being more educated than men.

Nowadays, when couples who are mismatched in education form, it's more common that the woman has more education than the man.