![]() Join Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on /roomfordebate. Why? Too many of their women went off to college. But the flip side is the working-class guys may be more interested in settling down. ![]() Not unless there is a huge spike in the divorce rate.Ĭops and carpenters might not stack up to doctors and lawyers as providers. The fact is, with 134 women for every 100 men, there is simply no way all the young college-grad women who wish to marry college-grad men can do so. ![]() I foresee a rise in what I call “mixed-collar marriages" - professional women marrying working-class men. Today, the odds of a college graduate marrying a non-graduate are lower than at any point since the 1950s.īut that is bound to change. The college gender gap might not matter if educated Americans were more open-minded about whom they marry. “Breakups are rare, and many couples get married after CalTech.” “Students here tend not to date but have relationships,” one college review site wrote of the California Institute of Technology, which is over 60 percent male. Whether or not you have a background in statistics Birger makes the concepts come alive in easy-to-understand prose and examples. Colleges with disproportionately high numbers of women tend to have the most intense hookup cultures, whereas campuses with enrollments that skew male tend to be those where monogamy still reigns. Birger has provided an important addition, grounded in empirical evidence and close research, to the mass of books and articles on dating. I foresee a rise in what I call 'mixed-collar marriages' - professional women marrying working-class men.Ĭonsider how this plays out on campus. ![]()
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