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I have not encountered many women who would be content in a marriage with somebody who makes less than her. Does anybody see female executives dating sanitation men? She might date a buff construction worker occasionally, but she won't let her friends meet him. What will happen is the excess educated women will die bitter and alone. The less educated men will still be able to find women.

You are saying 2 different things. If an excess educated woman cannot find a man, then an undereducated man will not find a woman - it is the same equation from different sides.... and that is what women of the future will have to "change".

Currently, men will marry "down", it is not uncommon for a man to marry a less paid woman, a waitress, or whatever, but you rarely find women marrying "down". Since the men of the future will be less educated and less paid, women will either have to adjust/change, or else neither the less educated man or the excess educated woman will find someone.

Since the men of the future will be less educated and less paid, women will either have to adjust/change, or else neither the less educated man or the excess educated woman will find someone.

Or the less educated man married a younger woman and educates her, as in my case ;o)

You are saying 2 different things. If an excess educated woman cannot find a man, then an undereducated man will not find a woman

That will not affect American Freepers to any degree. If we run out of eligible US women, there's loads of Latina women available.

[post 745]:And when it does change and it is the woman who has the good job, and makes most of the money, it will be the woman who is in control of the relationship (because she is the one with the money)

The woman is already in control of the relationship, even when she makes less money. The person in control of the relationship is the person most willing to terminate the relationship if her desires are not met. In the US today, because of the way divorce laws lean, that is the woman. Women initiate the vast majority of divorces in the US, and usually get the kids and the house and the lions share of the assets.

You assume that making the major share of the money will put the woman more in charge than she already is. You seem to like the idea of men being more subservient to their women. I don't think it will happen. The man will have less to lose in a divorce.

I'm reminded of a woman I used to work with. She was very gung-ho about making lots more money, thinking that this would make men more likely to want her, and overlook her being a 50ish overweight neurotic drama queen. Didn't work.

The average man would much rather share a small apartment with a reasonably attractive, sweet-tempered woman with a high libido, than share a mansion with a woman with a permanent feminist chip on her shoulder