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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Have you read all the articles about how so many women are the bread winners these days? They say it stems from the fact that so many men just aren't shooting the lights out scholastically in college, and consequently can't get high powered corp positions. I buy it. In every couple we go out with regularly, the husband, even when he's the bread winner, is a fuck up of sorts, and the woman has her shit together. Or maybe its just my social group.
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Yeah. There are also lots of studies showing that, across a broad range of societies, if you give women access to capital they usually build businesses and support families and generally create wealth and social stability, while if you give men access to capital they usually get drunk and violent. So I'd guess it has more to do with "women tend to not be fuck-ups" more than comparable educational accomplishment - women tend not to marry "down," educationally and otherwise, though that seems to be slowly changing as their options narrow. Annecdotally, the Mr. is significantly better educated than I am, which is saying something since I am pretty uselessly overeducated.
