I don't know about that. I personally married down. My exhusband wasn't college educated and didn't make as much money as me. We divorced for unrelated reasons. I think I would go with a man who supports my dreams way more than someone "less status" than myself. I have a close friend who works as a surgeon, and she's happy her husband is a stay at home dad. In fact I know a lot of women who are happy to marry down, so long as the is supportive in them being who they are. However I don't think women want to marry a person who just wants to welch off of them. It's one thing to have less status but be supportive, it's another to have a partner who does nothing and just expects the wife to give and give and doesn't add anything back. I can see the point there.