A marriage forecast based on 1990's Census data suggests that, while more-educated women were less likely to marry a half-century ago, modern-day college grads are more likely to marry than their less-educated peers.
"The marriage market is changing," says sociologist Joshua Goldstein of Princeton University, who co-authored the forecast.
The report, noted in a recent American Sociological Association journal, says that about 90% of all women born in 1950 eventually married, regardless of their education. But for women born in 1960, a split has emerged where about 94% of female college graduates marry, compared with 89% of those women with less education. "Marriage is becoming a luxury good," says sociologist Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania.
His research suggests that marriage partners with more education are better able to pay for services, such as child care, that ease some of the strain on marriage.
.... 7 of 10 women with high-income corporate careers and 8 of 10 high-income entrepreneurial women were married with children by age 40, while about 8 of 10 men of the same status were too.
According to this data, the vast majority of college educated women haven't gotten the memo about there not being enough men to marry. Ninety-four percent marry indicating the man shortage doesn't seem to be a huge hurdle for them.