[itsybitsycoder]

Well, for how long? Not all the job offers come in at the same time. If your only offer so far is McD's, it might be worth it to do some extra job training for a year to be a more attractive candidate and then see how things go after that. Even though it's another year of unemployment.

There are actually "wife skills" classes you can take in these countries, I just saw one from India the other day. Offered to cover everything from cooking and cleaning to beauty to party planning.

[FD3SA]

This is a very deep topic, but in summary, I believe the difficulty for women looking to marry in this day and age actually has more to do with the supply side.

Marriage is a terrible, terrible decision for any individual with above average income or assets. Given that most people who get married want to have kids, and because of biology women usually need to be the ones to take maternity leave, this creates an imbalance in earning power that only intensifies throughout the length of the marriage.

As a result, the lower earning spouse has an increasingly larger financial incentive to initiate a divorce. Note that this incentive is completely independent of the relationship between the spouses, because of the way marital assets are divided after a no-fault divorce.

Even in the happiest marriage imaginable, if there's any income/wealth disparity, the spouse on the low end has a massive economic incentive to initiate divorce for a payout.

This is why I said in my first post that marriage is an inherently broken institution, and needs serious reform. Incentives matter.