Fun thread.
If we are to talk strictly in terms of personal expenses (not who decides to spend more on kids, who's more generous, etc) definitely - woman.
Have you noticed how clothes for women are much lower quality at the same price with similar items for men? It is quite outrageous. Marketers know that - so given that on average women still make less money than men, here's to a system that perpetuates the "gold digger" instinct even in the most decent of women.
We need the men to sponsor us - or at least PARTIALLY sponsor us.
As a woman, I think it is hard to be completely disinterested in a prospective partner's money making potential (as I was when I married DH -due to coming from a "different planet", aka a former socialist nation that had just turned capitalist). EVERYTHING in a capitalist society is about money and when your money-making potential as a woman is certainly more limited than the man's, if only for your childbearing/small children years, if not for many other reasons...you kind of start to care about the man's wallet, if only a little bit.
So guys please stop judging women when they check out your present/future money making prospects. You are the ones who created and support this kind of world and not all of us want you to be decent earners so we can bathe in "unearned luxury".
I used to think very ill of "gold diggers" (which to me was ANY woman who would be as much as curious about how much money a prospective husband earns; I did not know exactly know much mine was making when I decided to marry him. His material situation looked OK to me from a distance, I just wanted to know how well-read and cultured he was
).
Now, after 10 years in a capitalist jungle, I think a little differently.
