{"id":16415,"date":"2016-01-17T05:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/articles\/who-marries-ceos-doctors-teachers-dancers-and-welders\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:13:16","slug":"who-marries-ceos-doctors-teachers-dancers-and-welders","status":"publish","type":"uk-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/who-marries-ceos-doctors-teachers-dancers-and-welders\/","title":{"rendered":"Who marries CEOs, doctors, teachers, dancers and welders?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Bloomberg's<\/p>\n

Whatever we\u00a0may believe about love at first sight, new research from Bloomberg Business<\/a>\u00a0 shows that our beloved’s\u00a0occupation may have a lot to do with whom\u00a0we actually end up marrying.<\/p>\n

The research, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey, which comprises data from more than 3.5 million households, shows just what occupations tend to pair up.<\/p>\n

The most matched marital pairing in America is between grade\u00a0school teachers (years one to eight) and, predictably, most high-earning professionals such as lawyers and doctors often\u00a0marry their economic equals.<\/p>\n

The data shows that ‘middle and low-tier women tend to ‘marry up.’ So, says\u00a0Bloomberg Business<\/a>, “female CEOs<\/span> tend to marry other CEOs; male CEOs are OK marrying their secretaries<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

The most featured occupation on the list – across more industries than any other – was that of a teacher with more other professions marrying those who were primary and high school teachers than any other profession. Teachers, as wives and, to a lesser degree, husbands were among the preferred spouses for tax collectors, bus drivers, information systems managers, fishing workers, food scientists and community health workers – among dozens of other industries.<\/p>\n

\"Bloomberg's
Bloomberg’s marriage chart for news, analysts, reporters and correspondents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The results of the data varied markedly depending on the industry analysed. For example, amongst news analysts, reporters and correspondents, most males in the industry tended to marry primary and high school teachers, while female journalists tended to gravitate towards miscellaneous managers. Amongst same-sex news employees, the males tended to marry physicians and surgeons, while among female same-sex media employees, their spouse’s occupation of preference tended to be secretaries and administrative assistants.<\/p>\n

Though, there were also some surprising results, for example, the data shows female singers and musicians tend to gravitate towards members of the clergy, however, this is likely to refer to, for example, gospel singers marrying fellow church members.<\/p>\n

Similarly, amongst teachers, female teachers tended to marry male managers, men in retail supervision and truck drivers, while same-sex male teachers tended to marry education adminstrators.<\/p>\n

Amongst largely heterosexual male maintenance and repair workers, their wives tended to be nurses, maids, cashiers, secretaries or, you guessed it, teachers! Female same-sex maintenance and repair workers tended to marry miscellaneous managers.<\/p>\n

Other notable pairings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Female dancers with male welders
\n– Physicians and surgeons with\u00a0nurses
\n– Male police officers with\u00a0office and administration staff
\n– Female mathematicians with male software developers
\n– Female computer network architects with female secondary school teachers<\/p>\n

Click here to see which occupations marry which.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16416,"parent":0,"template":"","uk_article_category":[6810],"uk_article_tag":[2969,3053,3314,3597,3696,3964,4321,4560,5001],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/16415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/16415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_category?post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"uk_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_tag?post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}