The Relationship Between Physical Attributes and Marriage in England

One form of the hypergamy hypothesis goes, since men seem to care more about looks than women, women probably marry up. A different Clark and Cummins study says, rarely. They find a correlation of 0.8 between wives and husbands' social classes in England which is unchanged 1837-2021. The male preference for physical attraction would be predicted to reduce the correlation between marital partners in family status,. But this was the same effect for women as compared to men.