In recent years, women in the U.S. have begun marrying men with lower educational qualifications at an increasing rate, a trend known as hypogamy. A study indicates that in 2020, only 44.5% of heterosexual marriages reflected educational parity, a decline from previous decades. Data shows that 62% of educationally mixed marriages are hypogamous, with a significant increase in the number of educated women marrying less-educated men, moving from 2.3% among those born in 1930 to 9.6% among those born in 1980. This trend is not only limited to the U.S. but is observed globally as well.
According to her calculations, in 2020, American husbands and wives shared the same broad level of education in 44.5 percent of heterosexual marriages, down from more than 47 percent in the early 2000s.
The phenomenon of women marrying men with less education than themselves, what academics call 'hypogamy,' is on the rise.
Among Americans born in 1930, 2.3 percent ended up in a marriage where the woman had a four-year degree and the man did not. Among those born in 1980, that figure was 9.6 percent.
Crunching the numbers slightly differently, Benjamin Goldman found that hypogamy is becoming more common all over the globe.
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