Post #219:
Where does that article conclude that a college education causes a woman to dislike housework? I do not see where a causal link was demonstrated.
I made no such implication.
Beyond that:
In general, studies suggest that women with more education do less housework (Bergen, 1991; Hersch & Stratton, 1994; Pittman & Blanchard, 1996; Presser, 1994; Orbuch & Eyster, 1997; Sanchez & Thomson, 1997; South & Spitze, 1994), purchase more domestic services (Cohen, 1998), and have children who do less housework (Waite & Goldscheider, 1992).
Women with less education than their husbands and those who perceive the costs of leaving the marriage to be high perceive more fairness (Lennon & Rosenfield, 1994; Wilkie et al., 1998), and higher levels of education for both spouses are associated with seeing less fairness in the division of labor (DeMaris & Longmore, 1996; John et al., 1995; Robinson & Spitze, 1992).
Coltrane, Scott. “Research on household labor: Modeling and measuring the social embeddedness of routine family work.” Journal of Marriage and family 62.4 (2000): 1208-1233.
Post #224:
This thread is getting really stupid and ignorant.
Ad hominem will not help your case.
Post #224:
Second, that has little to do with this thread except more misogynist thought against women.
Many words, like “misogyny,” are misused/abused. The word “misogyny” has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies “something not desirable to women.” It starts to sound like mechanical repeating of familiar phrases that are not supported by the dictionary definitions of the words contained therein. Anyhow, since you do not attempt to explain even a tenuous connection between misogyny and this discussion, your (mis/ab)use of that word will be ignored as a red herring.
Post #224:
So older women have less chance of marriage since they are less attractive? first off, a flat out lie
[and others]
Yes, this is the case. Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it untrue. Essentially, it’s your opinion versus vast amounts of research.
Beyond that, you have seemingly confused me with the research I am citing. I am only the messenger. What I say or believe has no effect on the results of research - they are what they are.
Anyway, a few more studies that found that attractiveness declines with age:
Buss, D.M., & Schmitt, D.P. (1993). “Sexual strategies theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating.” Psychological Review, 100, 204–232.
Kwart, Dylan G., Tom Foulsham, and Alan Kingstone. “Age and beauty are in the eye of the beholder.” Perception 41.8 (2012): 925.
Nestor, Mark S., Mark A. Stillman, and Andrew C. Frisina. “Subjective and objective facial attractiveness: ratings and gender differences in objective appraisals of female faces.” The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology 3.12 (2010): 31.
Wade, T. Joel. “Evolutionary theory and self-perception: Sex differences in body esteem predictors of self-perceived physical and sexual attractiveness and self-esteem.” International Journal of Psychology 35.1 (2000): 36-45.
Jones, Doug, and Kim Hill. “Criteria of facial attractiveness in five populations.” Human Nature 4.3 (1993): 271-296.
Zebrowitz, L.A., Olson K., & Hoffman, K. “Stability of babyfaceness and attractiveness across the life span.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1993): 64, 453–466.
Schacht, Ryan. “Female and Male Perceptions of Attractiveness: What is Attractive and Why?.” (2005).
In other words:
There may be room for argument about why attractiveness changes with age, but, in spite of a considerable literature devoted to the claim that human sexuality and standards of physical attractiveness are culturally constructed, there does not seem to be any evidence from any society that seriously challenges the proposition that physical attractiveness is perceived to decline from young adulthood to old age, especially for females. “The correlation of female age and sexual attractiveness is so intuitively obvious that ethnographers apparently take it for granted - as they do the bipedalism of the people they study - and the significance of female age tends to be mentioned only in passing, in discussions of something else” (Symons I979:188).
In: Jones, Doug, et al. “Sexual selection, physical attractiveness, and facial neoteny: cross-cultural evidence and implications [and comments and reply].” Current Anthropology (1995): 723-748.
And what about men? Well:
there is clear evidence that physical attractiveness declines with age for both men and women
(Berry, Diane S. “Attractiveness, attraction, and sexual selection: Evolutionary perspectives on the form and function of physical attractiveness.” Advances in experimental social psychology 32 (2000): 273-342)
But:
Results indicate that dominance and the traits associated with it predict men’s mating success, but attractiveness and the traits associated with it do not.
(Wheatley, John R., et al. “Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men’s traits.” (2013))
Again:
male mate value (the total value of the characteristics that an individual possesses in terms of the potential contribution to his or her mate’s reproductive success) is better predicted by social status and economic resources, whereas women’s mate value hinges on signals conveyed by their physical appearance.
(Waynforth, David. “Mate choice trade-offs and women’s preference for physically attractive men.” Human Nature 12.3 (2001): 207-219.)
