Opposites Don't Attract: Marital Choices Exacerbating Income Inequality
Marital choices are exacerbating household income inequality
 Sep 21st 2017“HERE’S what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate,” wrote Susan Patton, a human-resources consultant, in 2013. In an infamous letter to the editor of Princeton’s student newspaper, Ms Patton warned female students at the university that they will “never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of [them]”. Critics responded harshly. Ms Patton recalls that she was branded “a traitor to feminism, a traitor to co-education and an elitist”.This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Matching theory”Finance & economics September 23rd 2017China sets its sights on dominating sunrise industriesAmerica holds the World Trade Organisation hostageEthical investment is booming. But what is it?Huge volumes of data make real-time insurance a possibilityMarital choices are exacerbating household income inequalityUkraine’s return to the debt markets worries economic reformersNorway’s sovereign-wealth fund passes the $1trn markThe teaching of economics gets an overdue overhaulFrom the September 23rd 2017 editionDiscover stories from this section and more in the list of contentsExplore the editionReuse this content