Hey Feminists: "Strike A Blow For Equality. Marry A Poor Man."

A passage on a way men and women aren't equal -- in the choices available to them -- from On Our Minds: How Evolutionary Psychology Is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate , a book published in 2003 by Eric M. Gander:

In fact, with respect to work and "romance," women have three broad choices in modern American society.They can choose to pursue high status in a career only and thus forsake a potential mate, or they can choose to pursue high status in a potential mate only and thus forsake a career, or they can choose to pursue both high status in a career and high status in a potential mate. (If a woman is successful in this third option and children result, these children can always be put in expensive day-care centers or left with high-paid nannies.)

On the other hand, men in modern American society can choose to pursue high status in a career only and forsake a potential mate, or they can choose to pursue high status in a career and high status in a potential mate. But men cannot choose to pursue high status in a potential mate only and forsake a career, because unless a man is of high status no high-status women will want him.

Unfortunately for men, it appears that their options will remain limited. One reason is that powerful, high-status women (many of them avowed feminists, I suppose) who would be in a position to change the culture by marrying low-status males and thus "leading by example" tend, as we have seen, not to want to do so.

Thus, instead of talking about the "glass ceiling," wealthy, well-educated, high-status young women who are feminists might want to consider the following slogan: STRIKE A BLOW FOR EQUALITY. MARRY A POOR MAN.