Hello and welcome to Broeconomics. Now in this episode I'm very lucky to be joined by Dr.

Danny Sulekoski who is an expert in evolutionary psychology and looks a lot at sort of female

mating strategies and all that sort of stuff which is of course is going to be quite fascinating.

So Dr Danny thank you very much for joining us. You're very welcome. Very happy to be here.

I'll start with this.

There is something that I've been pondering that perhaps individually makes sense,

but when you put the thoughts together makes less sense.

And that is, if you ask the typical woman what she's looking for in society, you'll often get an answer

something like, I want women to have the same status and earning as men. Okay, fair enough.

And then if you ask what a woman wants for herself individually, you're often here,

well, I want a man who has more status and earnings than I do.

And as long as you keep those thoughts disconnected, that's fine. But when you put them together,

you've got a bit of a bit of a problem at the societal level. Do you think that observation is

right? And what do you think that tells us?

Is that a problem?

Yes, it's mostly right, and it's definitely a problem.

I don't know how many women would consciously tell you that what they want is a man that

earns more than they do or that has higher social status than they do. But we know

that this necessarily is what women want, whether it's what they would say consciously or not.

I think a lot of women probably would not say that consciously, much the same way people will

often profess that looks don't matter. They find the person attractive. That's a lovely thing to say,

but we know it's not true.

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