{"id":34569,"date":"2017-11-28T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34569"},"modified":"2017-11-17T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:30:46","slug":"qotd-women-and-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/qotd-women-and-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Women and &#8220;providers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;Women evolved to feel compelled to seek men who are &#8220;providers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This hasn&#8217;t changed, not even for powerful women making a lot of money. Research by evolutionary psychologist David Buss and others has shown that even when women are high-flying big earners, they seem to want men who are higher-flying bigger earners.<\/p>\n<p>This is even true of women who consider themselves feminists. Another evolutionary psychologist, Bruce J. Ellis, wrote in <em>The Adapted Mind<\/em> of fifteen feminist leaders&#8217; descriptions of their ideal man &mdash; descriptions that included the repeated use of terms connoting high status, like &#8220;very rich,&#8221; &#8220;brilliant,&#8221; and &#8220;genius.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Alkon, <em>Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck <\/em>, 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Women evolved to feel compelled to seek men who are &#8220;providers.&#8221; This hasn&#8217;t changed, not even for powerful women making a lot of money. Research by evolutionary psychologist David Buss and others has shown that even when women are high-flying big earners, they seem to want men who are higher-flying bigger earners. This is even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[987,139,255,43],"class_list":["post-34569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-feminism","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34570,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions\/34570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}