NEW KERALA -- Jan 28 -- "Now that women are sharing a majority of both college degrees and professional jobs, they are getting a taste of something else that used to be a male-only province: gold-digging dates," a report in the Wall Street Journal said. "Many women are surprised to find their earning power has become a magnet for the opposite sex." Research by Megan Sweeney, an assistant professor of sociology at the UCLA, shows a trend towards higher-earning women marrying at higher rates. Match.com, a dating web site with 15 million users, is seeing a rise in men who specify that they want to date only women above a certain income level.
Mark Brooks: Rising costs of housing in high cost of living cities such as New York and San Francisco are most surely driving this trend. Also, until online dating came along, guys had less visibility into the incomes of their potential wives. Now guys have some visibility.
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