For the First Time, Women Are More Educated Than Their Husbands

New York Magazine ^ | Maggie Lange

[nickcarraway]

For the first time since the Pew Research Center has kept track of such things, the percentage of American women who are more highly educated than their husbands is higher than the percentage of husbands who have more degrees than their wives.

Gathered from census data, research shows that 21 percent of women have more degrees than their husbands, whereas 20 percent of men have more degrees than their spouses. (In 1960, these numbers were 7 percent for women and 14 percent for men.) The trend can be seen most clearly among newly married couples, because, for the past 20 years, younger women have been more likely to pursue higher education than men.

And so we move forward in this wide world of people making choices about education and marriage and life in general. Hold on tight for further updates in another 10 years or so!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Both sexes have no wisdom. Education means economic control, but what will that yield?

[tbw2]

And because women are now as choosy of mates as men, there is now a glut of educated women relative to men, leaving many single instead of married to someone with less education.

[tbw2]

I can’t remember which college it was, but there was a school looking into affirmative action for men because the campus was 60% female.

[heye2monn]

Quite true.