Thread by @MSS3RosaFerreum

"Around the world, as female college-attainment rises, typically the fertility rate goes down as educated women delay starting families." (wsj.com/articles/histo…).

"In the U.S., the total fertility rate has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 1971 and hit a record-low of 1.7 last year" (wsj.com/articles/histo…).

"Low fertility levels in advanced nations can lower overall labor force growth and increase spending due to the cost of taking care of an aging population" (wsj.com/articles/histo…).

"Since the 1980s, women have made up the majority of those seeking bachelor’s degrees. By 1999, women received 57% of bachelor’s degrees, and it has been that way more or less for almost two decades" (wsj.com/articles/histo…).

"[W]omen also look to further their education just to get the same returns as men who achieve lower levels of education. In other words, the wage gap at different education levels might be pushing the female desire to earn advanced degrees" (wsj.com/articles/histo…).

However, keep in mind that “unmarried, childless women under 30 who live in cities” out-earn men as reported by @TIME Magazine (content.time.com/time/business/…), @usnews & World Report (usnews.com/debate-club/sh…), and @PolitiFact's @PunditFact (politifact.com/punditfact/sta…).

"According to the Census Bureau, women-led households made up a little more than 26% of all households in 1980. By 2018, that number grew to 30.5%, although broader social changes contribute to this trend as well" (wsj.com/articles/histo…).

"In the US, …among 22-to 29-year-olds, there are 5.5 million college-educated women, and 4.1 million college-educated men. …[There is] a gap in the UK too. Last year, a record number of women outnumbered men, with nearly 58,000 more women than men" (theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…).

"To be clear, we are talking about heterosexual women who want to find a partner; there are plenty of straight women who don’t feel finding a man is a high priority" (theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…).

"[O]ne of the drivers of the so-called hook-up culture is the number of men who have found a wealth of available women to choose from" (theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…).

"It isn’t really that surprising that we like to form long-term relationships with someone like ourselves, and assortative mating – the term sociologists use to describe this tendency – has been rising" (theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…).

"If there are more graduate women than men, who are those men with lower levels of education dating if …educated women won’t consider them?…[W]e don’t talk about their dating challenges the same way we talk about the challenges faced by educated women"(theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…).

"In the US, among people aged 22-29 who do not have a college degree, there are 9.4 million single men, versus 7.1 million single women. So the dating world is just as hard for those blue collar guys" (theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…).

"[T]he personal choices of feminists [are] feeding the patriarchy…. A study… found that women in American, Chinese and European populations… are 1,000 times more likely than men to find the opposite sex more attractive based on higher salaries" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"How could independent, educated, financially secure women still be considering a man’s earning potential when it comes to choosing mates? They certainly don’t need to. Yet they do" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

From 1960 through 2010, "the white middle class splintered into two groups: one with high incomes and stable families, and another which is poorer, less educated and less married" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"[E]ducated people, who are more financially successful in a knowledge-based economy, have come to rather exclusively pair bond with people of similar educational and economic backgrounds. Yet that is not entirely true" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"Men are still more likely to marry someone whose earning potential is less than his own" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"Even as women have gained ground educationally and professionally, which should give them a much greater choice of potential marriage partners, women are less likely to 'marry down'" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"You’d almost have to conclude that women are financial bigots, unable to find much use for men who don’t make as much money as they do" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

Women's "bigotry is feeding the very social conditions that leftists often decry: the destruction of the middle class, income inequality and, yes, the perpetuation of the patriarchy" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"Next time… 'income inequality[]' dribble[s] off your lips, ask yourself if you’re willing to combine your six-figure salary with …a… man who is earning just under $60,000 per year? …[N]o? Don’t blame capitalism… [or] the patriarchy. Blame yourself"(thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"If you’re thinking, 'I may want to take time off to raise kids and I need a man for that—' Just stop right there. I fail to see the difference between that and a woman who went to college for her MRS degree" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"[I]f you marry up, isn’t your husband’s career always going to be more important than yours? …If you want your career to flourish, marry someone who is willing to be the great man behind every great woman" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"Some of [middle-income guys] will even stay home and raise kids while you go out and conquer the world. Imagine coming home to a home-cooked meal, a clean house, and tales of hilarious Dad Hacks. This life could be yours" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"By rejecting the idea that you must marry up, you show that you are more than a biological unit obeying outdated evolutionary instincts. You reduce income inequality, bolster the middle class, and diminish the remnants of the patriarchy…" (thelibertarianrepublic.com/dear-feminists…).

"The gender imbalance in educational attainment is getting larger every year. That may spell good news, ultimately, for income and employment equality—but it presages increasingly problematic social conditions for generations of men and women" (wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

"According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 57% of the class of 2018 who graduated with bachelor’s degrees were female. The gap for master’s degrees was even wider: 59% to 41%" (wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

"This gender imbalance has existed since 1981, when more women than men graduated for the first time, and it’s widened just about every single year since then. …[B]y 2027[,] women will account for about 60% of all bachelor’s degrees awarded" (wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

"It is estimated that for every three men with bachelor’s degrees in their 20s and 30s, there are now four women. …[I]ntellectual capacity and achievement is an important attractor and …people… gravitate toward …roughly the same level of attainment"(wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

"[T]here’s a larger problem confronting these… well-educated women. …[W]omen are more selective in seeking out a partner of the opposite sex. …[W]ith data… available from dating apps[,] we are …get[ting] a sense of… how big this gap is too" (wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

"Economists use a measure—the Gini coefficient—to estimate the level of inequality in an economy. … For women, in the eyes of men, the attractiveness assets were much more evenly spread—a Gini index of just 0.376" (wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

"[T]he Gini index for males is 0.542—a high level of inequality. A small number of men hold most of the attractiveness…. …Grim confirmation: A much smaller number of men are considered eligible by women than is the case for women as viewed by men" (wsj.com/articles/a-goo…).

Notably, "[a]s of October, 938,000 young women who graduated from high school in 1998 were in college while 906,000 young men were enrolled."

bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/…

Women are earning more associate's degrees, baccalaureates, professional doctorates, post-baccalaureate certificates, master's degrees, post-master's degree certificates, and doctorates than men (nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/20180…).

(Chart: cnsnews.com/news/article/t…)

Women getting lots of degrees and women not working as much as men have combined to cause a student loan gender gap where "[w]omen hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the United States — almost $929 billion as of early-2019" (aauw.org/research/deepe…).

The societal impact of younger women getting better educated and earning higher wages (than men) may be "declines in marriage [due to] a [corresponding] shortage of economically-attractive men for unmarried women to marry" (eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2… and onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…).