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Today women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees and more than half of master's and Ph.D.'s. Many people believe that, (1)____
as this may be good for women as income earners, it foreshadows ill for their marital prospects.
As Kate Bolick wrote in a much-discussed article in The Atlantic last fall,(2)____ American women face "a radical shrinking pool of what are traditionally considered to be 'marriageable' men-those who are better educated and earn more than they do." Educated women worry that (3)____they are scaring potential partners, and experts claim that those who do marry will end up with satisfactory matches. (4)____ They point to outdated studies suggesting that women with high earnings than their husbands do more housework to compensate for the threat to their mates' egos.(5)____
Is this really the fate (6)____facing with educated women: either no marriage at all or the marriage with more housework? Nonsense. That may have(7)____ been the case in the past, but no longer. By 1996, intelligence and education moved up to No. 5 on men's ranking of desirable qualities in a mate.(8)____ The desire for a good cook and housekeeper had dropped to 14th place, near the bottom of the 18-point scale. The sociologist Christine B. Whelan reports that by 2008, men's interest in a woman's education (9)____ had arisen to No. 4, just after mutual attraction, dependent character and emotional stability.(10)____
