They don’t “chase after” university degrees, they work for them and attain them.
If things had been made easier for women with brains and ability to follow their interests while still having children, we might not have ended up in this predicament. That was the original purpose of the women’s movement of the sixties and it has been totally swallowed up by all the peripheral nonsense. So many radicals saw a strong movement shaping up and jumped on board like plagiarizers.
My point is that it is very difficult to raise multiple children, with both parents working. For women with modest careers, who make less than six figure incomes, the costs involved in getting others to take care of the kids, and do all the other things that the housewife does, can be greater than the wife's net pay.