Re: Do men feel threatened if their wives make more?
Actually, working women have been a staple of human civilization for our entire history. It was only with the industrial revolution that gender roles began to be assigned.
50 years of feminism does not change thousands of years of male-female conditioning. Meaning, women can be as assertive and independent as you want, but at the end of the day the majority of them want a guy who’s their equal or better (in some ways at least). Societies do change, but the way humans interact do not really change. The traits that women find ideal in a man will remain the same. It’s the reason that men are still expected to approach women. It’s the reason that our body language when courting is the same as that of our ancestors, men get “big” and loud to get attention, women start grooming and get “small” to make themselves pretty.
Again, my point is not that these women should settle, my point is that by settling these women are likely setting themselves up for trouble down the line.