[cauterized]

Divorce rates are also linked to income. Engineering is typically a more stable and better paying career than something like dance (given as the counterexample in the article). How much of the difference in divorce rates is attributable to that?

[drpgq]

I wonder if a small part of the dancer/bartender vs engineer situation is that engineers (statistically usually male) often are working mostly with other men. My sister is married to a ballet dancer (who just retired to start studying to become a nurse) and he obviously was in pretty close contact with the opposite sex.

[tormeh]

Yeah, those are two occupations where men can pick and choose. I've read somewhere that the relationships where the woman is more attractive than the man are the most stable, because the man feels lucky and will do his utmost to keep the relationship going. These occupations basically increase the man's effective attractiveness by placing him in a dating pool almost devoid of men. I would guess the same is true for male nurses.

[khill]

If that was the main factor, the divorce rate for law enforcement would likely be lower as well.

[Ensorceled]

Is law enforcement on the engineering side of the comparison that was just made or the bartender/dancer side?

Law enforcement has it's own issues that are quite independent of most other occupations.

[cauterized]

I don't see anything in that article indicating that it applies only to men.

[emodendroket]

Nobody knows but surely you noticed that article mentioned that.