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There was a time when women were considered smart if they played dumb to get a man, and women who went to college were more inte
There was a time when women were considered smart if they played dumb to get a man, and women who went to college were more inte
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2022-08-04
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There was a time when women were considered smart if they played dumb to get a man, and women who went to college were more interested in getting a "Mrs. Degree" than a bachelor’s. Even today, it’s not unusual for a woman to get whispered and uninvited counsel from her grandmother that an advanced degree could hurt her in the marriage market. Despite the fact that more women than men now attend college, the idea that smart women finish last in love seems to hang on and on.
"There were so many misperceptions out there about education and marriage that I decided to sort out the facts," said economist Betsey Stevenson, an assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania So along with Wharton colleague Adam Isen, Stevenson analyzed national marriage data from 1950 to 2008 and found that the marriage penalty women once paid for being well educated has largely disappeared. "Marriage rates in the U.S. for college-educated women have risen enormously since the 1950s," Stevenson said. "In 1950, less than three quarters of white college-educated women went on to marry by age 40 (compared with 90 percent of high-school graduates). But today, 86 percent marry by age 40, compared with 88 percent of high-school graduates."
"In other words, the difference in marriage rates between those with college degrees and those without is very small," said Stephanie Coontz, a family historian at Evergreen State College and author of Marriage: A History. The new analysis also found that while high-school dropouts had the highest marriage rates (93 percent) in the 1950s, today college-educated women are much more likely to marry than those who don’t finish high school (86 percent versus 81 percent).
Of course, expectations have changed dramatically in the last half century. In the 1950s, men didn’t want a woman who was their equal; they needed and wanted someone who knew less, someone who looked up to them. And in fact 40 percent of college women admitted to playing dumb on dates. "These days, few women feel the need to play down their intelligence or achievements," Coontz said.
The new research has more good news for college graduates. Stevenson said the data indicate that modern college-educated women are more likely than other groups of women to be married at age 40, are less likely to divorce, and are more likely to describe their marriages as "happy" compared with other women. The marriages of well-educated women tend to be more stable because the brides are usually older as well as wiser, Stevenson said.
It can be learned from the first paragraph that ________.
选项
A、smart women usually seek grandmothers’ advice on marriage
B、women are more eager to get a bachelor’s degree than get married
C、women who play dumb in marriage are thought to be smart
D、smart women are in unfavorable situation to get married
答案
D
解析
根据题干可直接定位到第一段。该段最后一句话提到,尽管现在女性上大学的人数要比男性多,但是“聪明的女人,迟来的爱情”(smart women finish last in love)这样的观念似乎挥之不去。D项中的unfavorable“不利的”一词有此意,故D项最符合文意。A项中的seek“主动征求”一词错误,与原文中的get uninvited counsel相悖。第一段第一句提到,女人上大学不只是为了获得学历,更重要的是为了在大学里找到如意郎君,B项“相比结婚,女人更想获得学历”与文意不符。C项看似正确,但认为婚姻中装傻(play dumb)的是聪明的女人只是过去的说法。
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