April 16, 2004

Boys do make passes at girls who wear glasses ...
Posted by diane@downtownwomensclub.com">Diane Danielson at 9:46 AM -

and have graduate degrees. Finally some good news for the highly educated women of Boston. According to a brand new study featured on the front page of today's Boston Globe business section, while it's still more likely for a forty-something woman with only a high school diploma to be married when compared to her peers with graduate degrees, the gap is closing!

[Elaina] Rose, who presented her findings at a Population Association of America conference in Boston this month, said that in 1980 a woman 40 to 44 years old who completed three years of graduate school was about 14 percentage points less likely to have been married at some point than a woman with a high school diploma. By 2000, that 14-point gap had shrunk to 5 points, suggesting that changing social mores and women's pursuit of education have affected the marriage market.

Thank goodness. No more pretending to be the perfume gal at Filene's. (I swear that was the only way I could get dates back in law school!)

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