What women really want – money: Research finds women look for well-paid job first in partner



Women may say they are looking for tights abs or a sense of humour in their man, but he had better have a healthy bank balance to go with it.



According to new research published yesterday in Germany, more women are using money as overriding criteria for choosing their partners.



With women getting better jobs, they are looking for their men to have a spending power to match, said the study.

Taking control: Good looks or a sense of humour are increasingly taking a back seat to money when it comes to the criteria women use to find a partner, according to new research in Germany

The Cologne-based Institute for the German Economy claimed women quizzed in a survey said they wanted to avoid stress and confrontation over big differences in earnings.

The findings showed that the number of households in which one person earns much more than the other has decreased in the ten years between 1998 and 2008.

At the same time, couples with two average or high earners increased from 27.9 per cent to 30.5 per cent.

Couples that included a high earner and a low earner in the relationship decreased by 2.8 per cent from 28.6 to 25.8 per cent in the same time span.



At the same time the inequality of net incomes - or the gap between rich and poor couples - has risen by 15 per cent in Germany between 1998 and 2008, said German researchers.

