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Modern women no longer 'marrying up'

British women and men are choosing to marry partners who are increasingly from the same social class as themselves, despite modern society offering them more choice than ever before, according to new research by the think tank IPPR. The new analysis is part of an on-going IPPR project on how women’s aspirations have changed across different generations.

 

In the post-war period of rising social mobility, women increasingly married men who were both older and in a higher social class than themselves.

But new IPPR analysis of cohort data sets – of women born in different generations since 1958 - shows that there has been a decline in the number of women ‘marrying up’ over the last 40 years combined with a small increase in women ‘marrying down’.

There are now more ‘marrying down’, than ‘marrying up’. The biggest increase however, has been in the number of people who choose to marry within their own social class.

IPPR argues that this phenomena matters because, as more people marry within their own class, it exacerbates wider income inequalities by concentrating wealth and poverty in different households. Child poverty rates increase and inter-generational social mobility may also decrease when better off people marry one other, partly because well-off people are able to invest more time and resources on their children’s education and development.

 

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