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Meritocracy is no match for the alpha-couple

5 mins | Nov 1, 2022
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Is the centuries-old practice of marrying up finally over? With university graduates of the past century seemingly reluctant to marry beneath their credentials, at least from Janan Ganesh's personal experience, he questions whether hypergamy is now a relic of our less-progressive, class-orientated past.

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