When it comes to romance, a study shows apps have let women take the initiative – and can reap the greatest rewards
Throughout the history of dating, it’s been a truth universally acknowledged that a smart woman trades up socioeconomically but down when it comes to youth and looks – to ensure that the gentleman in question remains forever “grateful” to secure such a “prize”. And let’s face it, before the Married Women’s Property Act of 1870 right up until women could sign for their own mortgages in 1975 (not to mention buy themselves a beer with their own money in 1982), it was a pretty useful, if depressing, piece of advice – a trade of “erotic capital” as the LSE academic Catherine Hakim has called it.
But the DMs they are a-changin’. Research from the University of Michigan has now revealed that both men and women on dating apps send opening gambits to people of a higher “desirability” ranking than themselves – and at a nearly equal rate – 26% for men and 23% for women.
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