Short TLDR Men: I can't fuck your degree, just be pretty and petite. Women: I won't date down or date anyone without a stable income.

TLDR: Men, especially wealthier men, want attractive and slender women for partners. The more wealthier, the more choosier. Women want a stable income as they get older, exponentially. Older women who are wealthier however, want men who earn as much as them or more! Gives even more support to the fact women do not date down.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/family-relationships-and-sex/men-want-beauty-women-want-money-what-people-want-in-a-sexual-partner-20151001-gjyyot.html

Women want rich men. Men want beautiful women. And these stereotypes hold true for rich and poor, young and old, high school dropouts and university graduates, and even those who think they're hot and those who think they're not, according to new research published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Personality and Individual Differences.

This isn't some 1,000 random people, the study consisted of more than 27,600 heterosexual people in the US.

As you can see by the handy bars and tables, men place far more importance in women being slender and women place far more importance in men earning a good income.

Brendan Zietsch, a researcher in evolutionary psychology at the University of Queensland, said the findings were "very unsurprising", with numerous studies demonstrating similar results.

When it comes to choosing a mate, both men and women try to "maximise their genetic contribution to future generations", Dr Zietsch said.

"Men can do this by partnering with women possessing cues of youth and fertility, and so have evolved to find such cues attractive and important, whereas women can do this by partnering with men with resources to maximise the survival and mating prospects of their children."

The usual here. But of course as its the horribly evo psych, none of these studies will have any validity with your average SJW. Yet somehow their feelz are reality. The interesting thing about age, as you can see, is that men only start to care less about their partner looking great at ages 40-50+! Plenty of time to get that career and health in order, friends.

Older men also placed less importance than younger men on a partner with a steady income. But the opposite was true of women. Women's preference for a man with a steady income was weakest at age 18, increased up to age 40, then slowly declined. However, it remained higher among 56- to 65-year-olds than 18- to 25-year-olds, the study found.

Lmao dat wall, son.

Men who were wealthier and more educated placed more importance on having a good looking or slender partner, but showed little difference in preference when it came to partner income. In fact, wealthier men placed less emphasis than other men on a partner with a steady income.

On the other hand, women who were wealthier were pickier about both looks and money. They placed more importance than other women on a partner's good looks, as well as a steady income and making a lot of money.

There we go, women will not date down past 23-24 Get your hussle on during your 20's instead of traveling the world and 'finding yourself' and you will have far easier pickings in your 30's. Older, educated and wealthier women are the pickiest people on the planet, but to them the good men have simply disappeared ;__;

Lesson learned?: The obvious, take care of your health and your career from an early age. Let them be your focus. Yes, date and be social enough not be an autist in your 30's, but don't go wasting shitloads of money and time easily pissed up the wall, for short term enjoyment. Use your time and skills to build your career and status for long term gainz, because men are the gatekeepers of commitment, what women really want. Plan it well and enjoy the fruits of your labour, people.

Direct link to study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915005462