This trend may be partly due to an increasing imbalance in the number of marriageable men and women at all levels of society. For example, women have attended and graduated from college at higher rates than men for some years now, and in 2010 women receiving doctoral degrees outnumbered men for the first time.
So they are accepting as a given, as a fact of life not to be questioned, that women will marry someone with an equal or greater formal education than themselves. The entire premise of this article is that women cannot abide a husband who does not have a certain level of education/income. In other words, they are accepting as engraved in stone, the “law” that women must marry up.
Hypergamy is law of the land.
I don’t agree with this premise. I see blue collar guys all over our middle class community becoming engaged and marrying college graduate gals. My son being one. Heck I see graduate school women involved with blue collar and skilled trades guys.
I think it is wonderful that these millennils are finding their loves. BTW most of them of devoutly religious.
Most women (note the word “most”) will not marry someone who makes less than they do.
Or that works at a less prestigious job than they do. A doctor will not marry a man who owns a garbage business, even though he may be worth much more than she is.