I have a trade job, so I'm technically a professional, but I definitely don't make as much money as an engineer does. I hear a lot of women say they don't want a guy who can't at least match them professionally (monetarily I'm assuming). The only guy in my friend group who gets a lot of dates on dating apps is a dentist.
I would with no problems, but that's not a random preference that has much to do with traditional roles (well, of course some women are strictly traditionalist just because of tradition only and not practical reasons behind), it's also about what women want in the life: if they mostly want to be mothers/wives, much more than having big career ambitions, then the ideal scenario to be a mother/housewife is that the partner is busy with something else (full time job) while she could afford only part-time, or even none. For her plans she would need someone who gives safety, with enough money.
A woman who is mostly focused on career, instead, probably, won't mind about the salary of their partner, they can be the bread winners (I belong to this type, I'm very ambitious and technical).
But I can say for sure that I would reject (or anyway hardly fit with) a guy who is not independent with his money (regardless if his salary is higher or lower than mine), not because of the issue itself, but because assuming the guy is in his 30s, I don't want someone who risks to not have his stuff together, no started career, no skills to fit in a job context etc. I can't be a surrogated parent, if the guy is jobless he has to prove he had jobs before and he managed to keep them for long, and that he is now jobless for a temporary reason, not because a long history of depression or any other issue that would mean I risk to become a caregiver giving contant assistance and then getting (of course) drained from that. This is something I didn't consider in my 20s, but now I do (I have been drained with that already).
Another thing that I don't like is when a guy is not ambitious, but that is just me, I am ambitious and I would like the partner to be proactive in general with a similar attitude as mine, for compatibility.
Yes money does not define you!
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