I am old fashioned, some say sexist. One reason more women are getting more advanced degrees is that men have to enter the workforce earlier. Flame me if you want, but in most ( not all ) cases the man graduates and goes to work to support the family ( IMO the way it is suppose to be ) while wife goes on to get several more degrees in her free time. I have seen that a lot ( my family is one ). I work as a software engineer and over the last 6 years my wife went on to attain another BA, a masters in clinical psychology, and starts on her Ph.D in the fall ( she worked sporatically in her field too ). The perk in all this is she will someday make more than me and I will suddenly come down with golfitis and become good for nothing.
I got an advanced degree because I was hooked on some things——
Food, a warm place to sleep, a roof that didn’t leak etc....