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What college women want in a marriage partner.

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One-hundred-and-ninety seven undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a confidential anonymous 22-item questionnaire designed to assess the qualities college women want in their prospective marital partners. The data revealed that women (when compared to what men want in a partner) were significantly more likely to prefer men who were "considerate," "dependable," and "intelligent." Women are moving away from viewing potential partners exclusively in instrumental terms of ability to provide money for them, as well as subsequent children, and toward viewing men in terms of more "expressive" qualities such as consideration, dependability, and intelligence. Implications and limitations of the data are suggested.

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Oklahoma Crude is a vintage film featuring the late George C. Scott and Faye Dunaway. The story takes place on top of a hill where Faye Dunaway has hired George C. Scott to protect her and her oil rig from imposing villains (led by Jack Palance) who want her property. One scene includes a drunken unshaven Scott lumbering over to the cabin where Dunaway is staying. She says to him as he gets within six inches of her face, "I know what you want," to which he replies, "No you don't." She then says, "Yes I do.... I know what men want!"

The scene reflects cultural assumptions about men and women. This study is not about men but about what women want in a...

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