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title: ""Since the 1990s, women have outnumbered men in both college…"
date: 2021-06-30
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# "Since the 1990s, women have outnumbered men in both college…

*June 30, 2021 · Facebook*

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\"Since the 1990s, women have outnumbered men in both college enrolment and college completion rates, reversing a trend that lasted through the 1960s and '70s. In 1960, there were 1.6 males for every female who graduated from a four-year US college. Compare this to 2003 where there were 1.35 females for every male college graduate. By 2013, 37 percent of women aged 25 to 29 had at least a bachelor's degree, compared with 30 percent of men in the same age range. Moreover, 12 percent of women in this age group had a post-graduate or professional degree compared to eight percent of men.\
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But it's not just the US; the UK, Panama, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Cuba, Jamaica and Brunei have some of the highest female to male ratios in higher education.\
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Young women are also out-earning young men. According to data compiled by the Press Association, women between the ages of 22 and 29 typically earned £1,111 more each year compared to males in the same age group. As it stands, women contribute \$7 trillion to the US gross domestic product per year and are the primary breadwinner in 40 percent of US households.\
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Crucially, the more professionally successful a woman is, the stronger her preference for successful men.\
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In a study of financially successful newlywed women, researchers concluded that "successful women place an even greater value than less successful women on mates who have professional degrees, high social status, and greater intelligence." This trend is also present in cross-cultural contexts. Separate studies of 1,670 Spanish, 288 Jordanian, 127 Serbian, and 1,851 English women all found that high resource women desired mates with greater status and more resources. In general, single women are three times as likely as men to say that they wouldn't consider a relationship with someone making less than them.\"\
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