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Basically, the type of work women studied was secondary to the role of wife and mother. We've crossed that bridge already.
This is progress. Too bad parts of Europe are still stuck in the 50's. And they have people like Dominique Strauss-Kahn to contend with, too. The concept of sexual harassment in the workplace, and putting policies in place to combat it, is still in its infancy there.
What Katherine did is an unwritten rule in most European countries. That is, its expected that when a woman goes to college she comes home with a degree AS WELL AS a potential well to do HUSBAND. Basically you go to college for both. Why have Americans not figured this out yet?
That was once common, back when only the children of the elite went to college. Buts since the womes' movement of the 1970s, more and more women have decided to go to college to get an actual education. Imagine that!
Also, nowadays, many college campuses are so dominated by the "hook up" culture, dating isn't even that easy, never mind finding a marriage partner.
@ bolded really? I have observed quite the opposite, women who climb the ladder by stepping on every potential romantic partner''s toes to get to the top. Then when they want to settle down, all those suitos have vanished.
Yes, very much so. My locale is not known for economic vibrancy, but it's not a complete basket case, nor is it likely to be as conservative as say the American rural south. I do however find an astonishingly strong correlation between traditional domestic life and career/financial success. Attend an upper middle class dinner party, and essentially everyone is married. Divorce is rare, and those who are single are more likely to be widowed than divorced. There are plenty of women with thriving careers. It's not just a "man's world". But those women have husbands. On the other hand, attend a gathering in the so-called "working class", and quite likely many participants will be divorced or never-married, either living alone or in informal domestic arrangements. This applies equally to men and to women. The correlation of poor career success and unconventional living arrangements is not gendered.
True story but when I became involved in church I met this nice looking guy. I then found out he was studying to be a priest. However he did eventually drop out of the seminary but is now involved with someone and I found out was too young for me anyway (he is 22).
@ bolded! Yes some people still do it & for good reason. At college you meet thousands of people or at encounter thousands. I know people who missed the opportunity to pull a husband then and are still single in their 40s.
But not all of these women met husbands. Others did and are now divorced and others are probably unhappy. Sure others met their husband and are happy but that's not all of them. Most of those that I know married their college sweethearts did so after many years of dating past college. In fact one couple met in 1991, graduated, and dated (and lived together)until 2005.
What Katherine did is an unwritten rule in most European countries. That is, its expected that when a woman goes to college she comes home with a degree AS WELL AS a potential well to do HUSBAND. Basically you go to college for both. Why have Americans not figured this out yet?
Aside from the fact that what Kate did isn't even true of all Englishwomen, Most women are not that desperate to rush and find someone just because they're in college.
Exactly. This isn't something America has yet to catch up to. This is something America did for generations and has finally mostly (though not entirely) moved beyond. There's no why a woman's reason for attending college should be any different from a man's.
Personally, I can't imagine how bad my life would be if I had married any of the women I dated in undergrad. Yikes. Tastes improve as the brain develops.
Someone said something about going to church to meet a husband. Its still not mainstream American only African Americans have that as part of their culture.
Hell no. They are just like everyone else.
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