By hypergamy I mean dating and marrying people out of your league - social league, intellectual league, psychological league, looks league. Women will usually date people in similar league, men will gladly date outliers.

Looks wise, I generally see more men dating women out of their league than women. I've actually seen women being turned off by men that seem to be "too perfect" physically. On the other hand, men shoot for the stars and approach people WAY out of their league, even if it makes them look like fools.

Women usually go for men in a similar financial and educational bracket, but as they marry the wage gap becomes a thing with stay-at-home mothers and similar phenomena. Despite the fact that these women have similar qualifications and education as their husbands, they usually care more about the kids and the house, thus neglecting their careers.

Men on the other hand have no problem approaching women more successful and accomplished than them, if they like them. Women will be more self and socially-conscious than men, by not being risk-takers. Of course, you'll always have hot models marrying rich old men, but this is more typical than vice versa mostly because rich men are much much more common than rich women. You'll also see rich women like Lady Gaga dating younger and hotter men than themselves. The thing is, not many women are confident and rich enough to date guys like these.

Personality is basically the only "league" in which men do date down, but they also usually use bad personality traits of these women for sex and intimacy. Women usually aren't turned on by fucked up men. Men on the other hand gladly date and marry women with most horrible personalities, just based on looks and