Everyone has read articles stating that women are still not treated as equals by their husbands, how they still do a majority of the housework etc.

Similarly everyone has also read articles about the dearth of marriageable men for women, despite that fact that at the ages people traditionally get married there are more men than women in the population.

This leads to cases where women will not settle for their equals, but instead want a better partner. We have discussed many times what happens when they can't find this partner but I've never seen a discussion of what happens for those that do.

Is it any surprise that when you marry people who are better than you (defined in whatever way you wish) they are more likely to be doing the high status stuff (e.g. working many hours earning a good salary) than the low status stuff (e.g. housework, like it or not it is considered low status relative to a well paying job).

This then shows up in statistics and then the very same women who reject husbands on the same level as themselves complain that they are left with doing the majority of the low status work in a relationship where the man is better than them.

Naturally this creates animus in the men who on one hand aren't good enough for women and if they manage to become so for a woman with lower status than themselves aren't doing an equal share of the housework despite the fact that they have more options to contribute to the relationship in other ways.