80% of Japanese Women: Marrying Poor Men “Unthinkable”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 1, 2009 01:51 JST
- Tags: Feminism, Marriage, Money, Relationships, Statistics
A recent survey has highlighted the overwhelming importance Japanese women place on the income of their prospective husbands, with 50% ruling out the prospect of marriage to a man with a lower income than themselves entirely as “unthinkable”, and a further 30% qualifying this to “if it looks as if he’ll earn more in future, it’s OK.”
The materialistic concerns of the female survey respondents are unabashed:
“I don’t think love can arise in a situation like that… Money is necessary to an extent.”
However, men too have similar, though less pronounced, reservations about women who are higher earners: 50% are happy with a wife who “earns much more” than them, but 20% can only take a lady earning “a little higher” than their own salaries. The rest presumably need a financially inferior partner.
You can read more about what incomes are acceptable in the previous survey coverage…
Via J-Cast.
All this has some interesting wider implications. If women in Japan are to enjoy equal career opportunities and income to their male counterparts, as many reasonably feel entitled to, logically they are going to have difficulty finding partners with higher incomes than themselves, and so their marriage prospects do not seem favourable.
The salary expectations (for their husband/income source) of Japanese women appear to be one of the unacknowledged factors contributing to the demographic changes so marked in Japan…
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Japan is fucked up anyway and Japanese women are fucking annoying.
Well im fucked. good thing i live in Georgia. were all poor.
so~~ That's what women are looking for ... hmmm that's also what I'm looking for too ~~ hah, a rich woman
I don't think its the general public who actually want gender equality but rather a couple of Feminists who are already quite masculine (to be considered Women)who bark the loudest and demand such actions.
I mean think about it, if there was gender equality why would the law still protect the rights of a Woman to take 50% of a mans assets upon divorce but not the other way around.
"but rather a couple of Feminists who are already quite masculine"
That's hot. Sign me up.
hot ?
LoL.
troll harder .
You misandry woman .
what you said
If men place primary importance on the looks of a potential wife, then yes, all he's going to find are gold-diggers with no love for the man.
If women place primary importance on how much money a man makes, then that will probably limit them to men who care mostly about looks.
It just seems so close to prostitution as to make no difference ("For fifty bucks, baby, I'll say whatever you want!")
Love got dropped out of the equation a long time ago over there, it seems.
considering marriage over there used to be a business agreement between two families 9/10 of the time, golddigging can be more easily excused and somwhat to be expcted if your asian.
"u may kiss the bride" .....chu! at my monitor~
Pah they'd better be able to earn a salary similar or close to mine before making demands.
God damn gold diggers >_>
"However, men too have similar, though less pronounced, reservations about women who are higher earners: 50% are happy with a wife who “earns much more” than them, but 20% can only take a lady earning “a little higher” than their own salaries. The rest presumably need a financially inferior partner."
One of the factors of low birth rate?
Wow.
so your saying they are dumb? :/
Why did I remember this link, I wonder?
http://no-maam.blogspot.com/2008/02/questionators-should-women-have-right.html
Hope they pay men better then women in japan.Becouse otherwise i don't see how the whole thing man and women should get together,if there is such a money barrier.
Actually, I think that's the source of this problem, men getting more money than women through JOBS.
I see what you did there.
Where's MikeeUSA? Surprisingly, he's missing from this post..
hopefully he's finally been banned of the internets once and for all, but even still can we refrain from summoning him? <_.>
*Brings out candles and draws pentagram.
*Prepares to sacrifice a virgin feminist.
hgdclll
I'm poor.
Grew up poor, and still am poor.
I'll always be poor. But at least I
don't hide where i come from.
At least i qualify for Japanese women who want
it 'hard'. ;)
gonna say something simple
the power of greed is a powerful thing
but also the power love is a powerful thing
so it depends on the relationship themselves
Love does not exist.
Wake up .
you Noob .
I guess... ppl is falling in love with money more than anything. I am thankful that my partner doesn't put money before love, as I am Bimbo!
EMBRACE 2D BITCHES
Japanese women: Not manly enough for the otaku.
So, JAPANESE WOMEN WANT TO BE BOUGHT???
Kinda like HI-CLASS PROSTITUTE.
Mad...
I'll tell you this my friend. If i give you $30000 and tell you to go to a coffee shop and ask the ten most beautiful girls there if they would sleep with you for that money. You will be surprised when you see than 9 out of ten will accept if not all. That nice girl that lives next door to you would also fuck your brains out for the right amount of money.
That's the true nature of most women.
who cares.
i do not have that money.
greedy silly japan women .
i'm poor and proud of it.
so true
Love expires after two years.
All i understand from this, is that am not likely to find a wife.
Question: How about just fucking? Does it have to be rich too?
Probably not since they marry an old rich guy and then find a young poor guy to fuck them.
you will never get a girl.
( same for me )
Women in this age hate the men.
stop thinking about solving this.
It's just a waste of time.
after WW2 the world has been
gettin worse and worse.
the future will be even darker .
it depends really on the poll
if the poll has only income, like
50% higher, 20% little higher
of course everyone will choose the highest
but if the poll has others, like
education
love
etc
then it will change,
so i conclude that
that poll is meaningless
This is TRUE for all women. It's basic human nature, just like most men prefer young attractive women over old, unhealthy (read fat), or ugly women. People also don't want mean-spirited or maladjusted partners either, It's all about ensuring that you and your offspring have the healthiest and best chance of survival and having offspring of their own.
in china is 100%
Not only in Japan you can buy a "wife." In Russia, too.
More work - less time for girls - in 65 years to retire.
lol
It is a generation of women grew up in a materialistic society (e.g being shopaholic) of course they will have different mentality from women in poor countries. As the country develops the mentality of people changes too. Not surprise here cuz my cousin is like that lol
Look at third world countries and then be convinced on why Japanese want rich men.
You guys won't be saying "LOVE OVER MONEY!" when the bills are coming in.
Money is a giant part of life, and you can't survive without it.
Without being able to pave your way through life with money, your relationship with your significant other will very likely fall apart as you argue over bills.
Anyone thinking otherwise lives in a fantasy land.
My parents have had money trouble for the past 24 years, due to different illnesses and loss of work at various times. And they've stuck together through the *really* bad times as well as the good. So I don't know what fantasy world YOU'RE speaking from.
Love keeps you sane. It keeps you from being buried in a big deep hole of despair, even when things are turning to shit around you. So to have YOU denigrate Love is to deny one of the most basic and *necessary* emotions we can express.
Money is necessary in it's own way, but it's a means to an end, not the end. The majority of us are created in an act of Love, and raised Lovingly by our parents. We're taught to Love Thy Neighbors and treat them according to how we ourselves would like to be treated. And we'd all like to be surrounded by those we love and care for when it's our time to leave this world. In the end, we can't take money with us, but Love.... Love is one of the things we CAN.
/poetic
You have your views, and you're more than welcome to refute mine. I just don't see things the way you do. :)
same here.
my family is poor.
love does not exist.
it is just a word written
onto internets forums
or books.
Im proud of you Miroku74 for mentioning that :)
Unfortunately, nowadays, it's rare to hear of couples who stick together even when it's raining fire and brimstone. Your parents are certainly very lucky to have each other. That, or the red string of destiny does exist.
Personally, I say to hell with marriage. The more I stay in the company of other people, the more I find I can't stand them. I rather die a bachelor than to damn myself by investing a part of myself in the fickleness of a woman, or another person in general.
Had a moment there eh? The anonymous dude knows what he's talking about better then you. All those love shit, yeah they sound good on paper.(not really the stink even there)
If cheesiness is your motto, by all means go ahead. Just be prepared to land.
My parents divorced themselves at a time when they were making more money. So I wouldn't really say that's what matters.
So in japan love is money huh !
I've never seen why money is so important to most of my fellow women. Then again I'm not the kind who spends it all like a fucking moron on extra clothes and shoes and diets and whatever fashionable, popular crap is flooding the malls lately. I'd rather have working electricity, internet, food, and the occasional game or DVD set to keep me entertained. Money is nice to have but makes for the lousiest of romantic relationship foundations.
Whatever happened to, you know, actual love? This old-fashioned romantic believes we're in need of a romantic and erotic renaissance.
Thank you someone who understands that love is not always about money this and money that and its got to be romance thats the true love for one another.
Oh thank you! Like I said, I'm just old fashioned, and in a society that shuns 'old' things...well, of course people are going to frown on chivalry, wooing, and good ol' effort when it comes down to trying to win someone's heart.
Though, those that do understand are going to be worth winning, because they'll care about the person and not the cash that supports them. I would rather be happy with someone I really liked and poor than in misery with someone I hated and rich.
If you're 'old-fashioned' hun, then welcome to the Club! ^^ Membership dues are pretty much nonexistent.
I think that love is the reason why my folks opted to keep me and my younger brother and sisters back when we were under the Welfare rolls. They were told by the (anti)social workers that it'd be better for them and us in the long run, but they decided to keep the family together. I like to think that's why my family is so tightly knit as it is... because we know we can depend on each other when the chips are down.
Day after day, and week after week, I hear about people's marriages falling by the wayside. I think marriage.... and the trappings and expectations which it evokes.... are wrong. If you're devoted to the other person, and they to you, you shouldn't need to feel pressured to make it 'official' by some religious ceremony or something similar.
Is this even making ANY kind of sense to anyone else here besides me? Or am I just rambling nonsense again?