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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.
According to Betsey Stevenson, the marriage rate of well-educated women ________.
选项
A、is considerably lower than that of high-school dropouts
B、undergoes greater change than that of high-school graduates
C、remained the same during the past few decades
D、is slightly higher than that of high-school graduates
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的Betsey Stevenson定位到第二段。该段末尾部分提到:1950年,拥有大学学历的白人女性在40岁之前结婚的还不到四分之三(而高中学历白人女性的结婚率为90%)。然而如今,前一数据上升到86%,而后数据下降到88%。由此可以推断,B项正确。根据该段末句可同时排除C项和D项。第三段末尾提到女性大学毕业生与中学辍学女性之间结婚率的比较,前者为86%,后者为81%,A项“受良好教育的女性的结婚率比中学辍学女性低很多”与原文相反,且此信息来源于Stephanie Coontz,而非Stevenson,故A项不正确。
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