In 2011 Catherine Hakim, a prominent sociologist from the London School of Economics, conducted a highly controversial study that suggested women are marrying more for money now than they did in the 1940s. She
told the BBC: "There is this myth that women invariably choose to have a relationship of total equality.” She concluded: "More and more women are choosing to marry men who are substantially better educated than them and therefore have higher earnings capacity."
Based on her findings, Hakim believes that after decades of campaigning for gender equality, women are having a difficult time admitting they would prefer to be housewives than career-minded women.
That is perhaps not what we feminists would like to hear, given the fact that women like Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer spent most of their lives battling for women to have the right to earn the same amount of money as men—and thus not
have to marry. And given that most of us would rather die than be put back into the mold of an apron-wearing 1940s housewife, Hakim’s findings were uncomfortable