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According to Daily Mail, weddings between bosses and their secretaries may soon be a thing of the past. We picked up interest in this because of the figurative and deeper implication of this. According to research, educational weightlifters are now pairing up with their academic peers more often than not.
People nowadays tend to find their ‘soul mates’ at university – as opposed to meeting them at work, which kind of dampens the chances of finding someone with a contrasting educational and social background.
Research in USA and UK show similarities on this one fact – there is an up rise in the number of similarly educated people in marriages.
As at 2005, nearly half of the married graduate men married female graduates – in contrast to one-quarter of the number in 1960. This was gleaned from data by the Pennsylvania University.
On the other hand…
At the other side of the gender see-saw, nearly 60% of women with no more than high school education got married to men of the same educational background, as compared to the 40% in 1960.
This is because More Women Are Now Going to University, Experts Say
Social mobility experts have pegged this phenomenon on the large number of women who now go to university.
An emeritus fellow of the Nuffield College, Oxford, John Goldthorpe, vivifying this new-world change, says 'If you go back to the 1960s you would have a big sex difference - the nurse marrying the surgeon, the businessman marrying the secretary. Over the past 20 years women have caught up with men in the proportion going into higher education. They are going in their mating years and therefore universities are becoming big mating factories.'
Is this Good or Bad? Experts say it is Bad, Mostly.
According to experts, this trend is creating greater inequality in household incomes, seeing as successful people are marrying successful people, and unsuccessful people, well, hook up with their counterparts. This is widening the income gap between people of all classes.
As DailyMail puts it, “A US postgraduate couple could earn 119 per cent more than the average income in 2005, but a postgraduate woman married to a man who had not finished high school would earn 8 per cent less than average.”
Stephen Machin, a professor of economics at the University College London, said: “It suggests a polarisation of skills in households. It's been a driving factor behind inequality and most people would say that's not good.”
One wonders, however, if this is also the case for Nigerian marriages.
People nowadays tend to find their ‘soul mates’ at university – as opposed to meeting them at work, which kind of dampens the chances of finding someone with a contrasting educational and social background.
Research in USA and UK show similarities on this one fact – there is an up rise in the number of similarly educated people in marriages.
As at 2005, nearly half of the married graduate men married female graduates – in contrast to one-quarter of the number in 1960. This was gleaned from data by the Pennsylvania University.
On the other hand…
At the other side of the gender see-saw, nearly 60% of women with no more than high school education got married to men of the same educational background, as compared to the 40% in 1960.
This is because More Women Are Now Going to University, Experts Say
Social mobility experts have pegged this phenomenon on the large number of women who now go to university.
An emeritus fellow of the Nuffield College, Oxford, John Goldthorpe, vivifying this new-world change, says 'If you go back to the 1960s you would have a big sex difference - the nurse marrying the surgeon, the businessman marrying the secretary. Over the past 20 years women have caught up with men in the proportion going into higher education. They are going in their mating years and therefore universities are becoming big mating factories.'
Is this Good or Bad? Experts say it is Bad, Mostly.
According to experts, this trend is creating greater inequality in household incomes, seeing as successful people are marrying successful people, and unsuccessful people, well, hook up with their counterparts. This is widening the income gap between people of all classes.
As DailyMail puts it, “A US postgraduate couple could earn 119 per cent more than the average income in 2005, but a postgraduate woman married to a man who had not finished high school would earn 8 per cent less than average.”
Stephen Machin, a professor of economics at the University College London, said: “It suggests a polarisation of skills in households. It's been a driving factor behind inequality and most people would say that's not good.”
One wonders, however, if this is also the case for Nigerian marriages.