Hypergamy

Though hypergamy may be declining among the professional classes, less-educated women still tend to reach up the social ladder when they marry, leaving a host of unmarriageable males stuck below. — "Education and Hypergamy in Marriage Markets," Elaina Rose, University of Washington

Primary Sources 2004

Though hypergamy may be declining among the professional classes, less-educated women still tend to reach up the social ladder when they marry, leaving a host of unmarriageable males stuck below. — "Education and Hypergamy in Marriage Markets," Elaina Rose, University of Washington

Primary Sources 2004

Hypergamy is found in the Central Provinces among the subcastes of Kanaujia

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

And this: "Hypergamy" is marriage into an equal or higher caste or social group.

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