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Today women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees and more than half of master's and Ph.D.'s. Many people believe that, as this may be good for women as income earners, it foreshadows ill for their marital prospects.(1)____
As Kate Bolick wrote in a much-discussed arlicle in The Atlantic last fall, American women face "a radical shrinking pool of what are traditionally considered to be 'marriageable' men-those who are better educated and earn more than they do."(2)____ Educated women worry that they are scaring potential partners, and experts claim that those who do marry will end up with satisfactory matches.(3)____ (4)____ They point to outdated studies suggesting that women with high earnings than their husbands do more housework to compensate for the threat to their mates' egos.(5)____
Is this really the fate facing with educated women: either no marriage at all or the marriage with more housework?(6)____ (7)____ Nonsense. That may have been the case in the past, but no longer. By 1996, inteIJigence and education moved up to No. 5 on men's ranking of desirable qualities in a mate.(8)____ The desire for a good cook and housekeeper had dropped to 14th place, near the bottom of the 18-point scale. The sociologist Christine B. Whelan reports that by 2008, men's interest in a woman's education had arisen to No. 4, just after mutual attraction, dependent character and emotional stability.(9)____ (10)____
