Why women are not oppressed in the West
It is often said in the popular media that women are “oppressed”. At the same time various publications bemoan the fact that women can’t find “good men” anymore.
If we combine these two phenomena with the supposition that women are hypergamous we come to an interesting contradiction: If women are looking for men with higher status than themselves and can’t find enough of them, especially at the higher levels, that would mean that the average status of women is higher than that of men (I’m assuming a Bell-curve distribution of status). If women are oppressed, however, one would expect women’s status to be lower on average.
Conclusion: women are not oppressed in modern Western society.