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In the United States, as everywhere in the world, women would tend to add more and fewer graduates. This phenomenon has a name, hypogama.
There was a time when the graduates marry women with less educated women. Only this trend was wirelessly balanced in the middle of the 20th century, with the increase in the number of women entering the university. Therefore, couples have been more formed on the basis of “universal”, that is, everyone has found such a education partner. But in recent years, a new phenomenon has increased. Hypogamy, that is, to be married to a person who has a “low” social status person.
Historical reversal
The numbers in the United States are eloquent. According to Christine Schwartz, a professor of the Sociology of Wisconsin University, which refers to the American magazine AtlanticThe proportion of American couples who share the same level of education have increased from more than 47% to 44.5% in the early 2000s.
Economie Benjamin Goldman of Corneli University confirms this evolution. Among Americans, born in 1930, who were united by 23% of the weddings, which he graduated from the university without an adequate diploma. This figure has more than a quarter for the generation born in 1980, reaching 9.6%.
Demographic Reasons:
However, the phenomenon would not be specific to the United States. “Hypogamy is more and more common in the world,” said AtlanticA number so how to explain it? Not for women’s economic strengthening or online meetings. But mainly through a simple demographic reality. More women follow higher education. As a proof, in 2021, American universities had more than 1.6 million women than men. At the same time, the level of marriage of the graduates remained stable, marks the chambers of Clara, Yale research. The explanation, therefore, is quite simple. For the absence of a sufficient number of higher education graduates, more women are less educated to marry men than they are.
Money, always glass ceiling
However, the level of diploma is not systematically undergoing income level. And if the educational gap is currently expanding in favor of women, it does not mean that they are coordinated by the main suppliers of the couple’s income. On the contrary. Men in the pairs of hippograms generally will be mostly an economic advantage. In some cases, it was even a husband’s income that gave a woman a higher education.
The work of the Palace of Clara, Benjamin Goldman and Harvard University Joseph Winklells us in this paradox. Without university students who marry graduates. “Their income has grown less over time, even given inflation,” the journalist wrote AtlanticStephanie H. Murray. On the contrary, single or married men, less educated women, have seen their income significantly decreases. In other words, women who have finished higher education marry the best paid men, without a diploma, watch Benjamin Goldman. And conclude.
Source: Le Figaro
