"I'll tell you why women are running out of men to marry"
(An op-ed/report from the UK. But this is a trend in the US first noticed among African-American women.)
It is a stunning fact — the biggest social revolution of our lifetime — that far more women than men are now receiving what is in theory an elite academic education. When I was at university 20 years ago, the figures were almost exactly the other way round, with the ratio 60:40 in favour of males. Far more female graduates are coming out of our universities than male graduates — and, in 30 years' time, when these people reach the peak of their careers, the entire management structure of Britain will have been transformed and feminised.
Speaking as an ardent feminist, I expect that this will have many wonderful results: a culture that is more feng shui and emotionally literate and altogether nicer, and an economy that benefits from unleashing the phenomenal energy and talents of British women who are — if GCSEs, A-levels and university entrance results mean anything — currently giving the male sex a good old intellectual thrashing.
What else could someone who wants a bureaucratic centralized welfare state want than a society of docile worker drones willing to sit behind desks and stay on task while filling out paperwork, or staring at a computer screen? The sad truth is that there is very little correlation between a degree and the development of intellectual ability, and a lot with rote memorization. More degrees does not mean that society is becoming more "educated."
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