Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.
Helen FisherThe Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher