Stephanie Coontz, a marriage historian, (who knew there was such a thing), says brainy, highly educated women are now winners in the marriage game.
The Romantic Life of Brainiacs
Pity the overschooled old maid and the lonely career woman. Highly educated or high-achieving women are less likely to marry and have children than other women. If they do marry, they are more likely to divorce. Even if they don't divorce, their marriages will be less happy. And, oh, yes, they'll be sexually frustrated, too.
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Conventional wisdom says the answer to both questions is yes. But a close look at the historical transformation of marriage in America suggests that educated women now have a surprising advantage when it comes to matrimony.
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Educated men and women are more likely to marry and less likely to divorce than others . And guess what? They have better sex lives, too.
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42 percent of college-educated married women who work out-earn their partners, and their marriages are just as stable as those in which the husband makes more than his wife.
But it's likely that at the end of the day, these women are just too tired to talk. Sue Shellenberger talks about Dealing with the Dead Zone in the WSJ.
Too tired to talk after work? You're not alone. About 45% of high-earning managers enter a conversational dead zone after a long workday, when they're too pooped to say anything at all to their spouse or partner, says a December Harvard Business Review study of 975 global managers by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce. Such strains are "wreaking havoc" on family and personal life, the study says.
I propose that at the end of the work day, everyone gets an hour of silence and quiet before coming together for dinner.