For the first time new research shows that married women have more education than their husbands.
According to the PEW Research Centre in 2012, 21% of married women in America had spouses that were less educated than them. That’s a threefold increase from 1960 according to new analysis of Census data.
The PEW research also shows that young female newlyweds tend to be more educated than their husbands partly because women have surpassed men in higher education in the past two decades. In 2012, 27% of newly married women had a spouse whose education level was lower than theirs.
Only 15% of newlywed men had a spouse with less education than them. The trend also showed that while college graduates are increasingly more likely to marry each other, couples with similar education levels are down from nearly 80% in 1960 to about 60% in 2012.
Does this mean that marrying someone with less education means you are “marrying down?”
Not necessarily, as the research shows these women are actually “married up” as 58% of newlywed women had husbands that made more than them.
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