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Do Degreed women have a harder time finding a Husband?

Do Degreed women have a harder time finding a Husband?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 27.3%

  • No

    Votes: 24 72.7%
  • Total voters
    33
Josie said:
Because I hold a more traditional view of marriage. I wouldn't want my husband feeling as though he wasn't a leader in the family.
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Ah your a subservient wife.

Traditional wives would be busy doing wife work, but your here talking politics with strange men. That isn't a traditional wife.
 
Josie said:
Because I hold a more traditional view of marriage. I wouldn't want my husband feeling as though he wasn't a leader in the family.
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Guess I never equated income to leadership, at least not within the confines of marriage defining.

I know many housewives that believe they are leaders of the family, and they don't make one red cent.

Of course, whether they are or not is up for debate. You can make yourself equal to your spouse in ways other than financially.
 
captainawesome said:
Ah your a subservient wife.

Traditional wives would be busy doing wife work, but your here talking politics with strange men. That isn't a traditional wife.
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I'm not a wife. :)
 
marywollstonecraft said:
do they want to marry?

there are people who have no intention of marrying. and maybe for good reason if you are a woman.

I haven't seen recent studies, but research in the nineties suggested that marriage had negative impacts on women's mental health, while improving men's mental health.
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Yes women always want to marry here. Being 30 is somewhat "late" here but still they manage to get married somehow. To increase credibility of the research that you state that you have read I propose that they should be carried out here also as well as be more up to date (i.e., cultural differences and being in ninety's).
 
marywollstonecraft said:
Just checking .... it is 2013, right?

a lot of the attitudes on this thread would be normal in 1973

.... have some of you guys been in a coma for the last forty years?
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Every married individual I know has gone to college first, that goes for the generation before me too for the most part except for the men. Some of them skipped the college part but the women in my family and among my friends have all gotten their degrees first, most at least 4 years and beyond and then they get married.
 
doesn't the woman with a better education have better options than those women who are less educated, assuming the higher education also translates into a higher income

that would then indicate the better educated woman can better afford to be selective than her less accomplished counterpart, who is more dependent on her husband's salary to provide for her family

additionally, family size is in decline, which would allow the wife more time to look for a spouse rather than bearing a larger number of children beginning at an earlier age

my belief is the woman who is better educated holds better cards and is therefor less desperate than less educated single women, being less dependent on the spousal income she can now be more discerning about emotional/cultural compatibility
 
Josie said:
Because I hold a more traditional view of marriage. I wouldn't want my husband feeling as though he wasn't a leader in the family.
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An individual so insecure that they can't handle their spouse earning more money than them isn't fit to be a "leader".
 
captainawesome said:
Ah your a subservient wife.

Traditional wives would be busy doing wife work, but your here talking politics with strange men. That isn't a traditional wife.
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Ah - the political discussion with strange men . . . that's what I'm doing wrong with this whole stay at home mom college military wife thing! LOL :D
 
People have strange beliefs about what "Housewife" is...and that not being employed outside the home...somehow means that they don't earn their way. It's damn hard work...and if women charged for the work that they do in the home...it would run in the neighborhood of $50K a year.

Those that believe income defines who is the leader of the family...very lacking in understanding marital relationships.

And those who believe that women who earn more than their husbands...damage their self-esteem...is a trip back to the 1950's thinking.

Times have changed...but apparently a lot of people live in a very stagnated delusion about what's going on in the here and now.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Ah - the political discussion with strange men . . . that's what I'm doing wrong with this whole stay at home mom college military wife thing! LOL :D
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Well, I can honestly say that I wouldn't hire a woman with 4 children (if I could finagle that info out of her in an interview legally) anyway - no offense to you, of course. :)

I just picture FMLA being used so much that it's just not worth my time.
 
Fisher said:
Because some were already married and some were lesbians so it would have been otherwise closer to 100% :tomato:

IDK. It is just something you pick up. In grad school you hear the business of people you barely know or don't even know on a daily basis. It was generally accepted that certain girls who were there were more interested in finding a hubby than in their studies. Nothing wrong with it. Just an observation, just like more people apply to law school when there is a war or a recession than during good economic times. Grad school is often a refuge.
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Then why do more women graduate from college than men? This seems like a observation made from bias and stereotypes (unless it is an observation from many decades ago). There are fewer men in college than women, especially nowdays, and most women/girls entering college know this. But there aren't just more entering college, but also graduating from college. And young girls entering college research colleges more on their academics and programs than young men do.

Young Women Are More Likely Than Men to Aspire to College, and to Graduate - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

What you describe sounds like gender stereotyping that is very outdated. It is from a past time when young women very well may have went to college to earn their "MRS", instead of an actual degree. That is not the case anymore.
 
Gipper said:
Well, I can honestly say that I wouldn't hire a woman with 4 children (if I could finagle that info out of her in an interview legally) anyway - no offense to you, of course. :)

I just picture FMLA being used so much that it's just not worth my time.
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You are a leech stealing from the rest of society. Raising children is non-negotiable absolute requirement for the continuation of our species, something you obviously receive massive benefits from seeing as how all your customers and employees are human. Spending time with sick kids is an integral requirement of the child raising process. Raising children also requires resources obtained either through employment of the parents or through taxpayer subsidy. You are attempting to shift the financial burden onto taxpayers and other employers, ignoring the payment you owe for the benefits you receive from child rearing.
 
rathi said:
You are a leech stealing from the rest of society. Raising children is non-negotiable absolute requirement for the continuation of our species, something you obviously receive massive benefits from seeing as how all your customers and employees are human. Spending time with sick kids is an integral requirement of the child raising process. Raising children also requires resources obtained either through employment of the parents or through taxpayer subsidy. You are attempting to shift the financial burden onto taxpayers and other employers, ignoring the payment you owe for the benefits you receive from child rearing.
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Nice use of sarcasm. I lol'd.
 
Gipper said:
Well, I can honestly say that I wouldn't hire a woman with 4 children (if I could finagle that info out of her in an interview legally) anyway - no offense to you, of course. :)

I just picture FMLA being used so much that it's just not worth my time.
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But you would hire a man with 4 kids no sweat? :roll:

Maybe when I own my own business I shouldn't hire anyone who does NOT have kids - just to even the playing field. :roll:
 
Gipper said:
Nice use of sarcasm. I lol'd.
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I'm not being sarcastic. I have no tolerance for employers who receive massive economic benefits from systems that require resources to build and then pretend they don't owe any of the costs.
 
rathi said:
I'm not being sarcastic. I have no tolerance for employers who receive massive economic benefits from systems that require resources to build and then pretend they don't owe any of the costs.
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Oh, you were serious about that?

Now I lol'd more. Thanks for that.
 
Gipper said:
Oh, you were serious about that?

Now I lol'd more. Thanks for that.
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It would be almost as funny as the look on your face when the evil coercive government slaps your ass with a nice lawsuit.
 
rathi said:
It would be almost as funny as the look on your face when the evil coercive government slaps your ass with a nice lawsuit.
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Good luck with that. You have a difficult case to prove when accusing an interviewing employer of anything - unless he's just stupid enough to blurt out why (and I've never known one that dumb).
 
Gipper said:
Good luck with that. You have a difficult case to prove when accusing an interviewing employer of anything - unless he's just stupid enough to blurt out why (and I've never known one that dumb).
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Well that's ok - apparently all I need to do is show you some of my abundant cleavage and soon you'd be eating out of my hand ;) I know how your kind works - I have no shame exploiting myself to get what I want ;)
 
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