More college educated Women than Men===ramifications.

A bunch of articles of note have been released that have tried to address the issue of disproportionate number of college educated men and women. This has been happening for years with women tipping the scale years ago. Now, it's almost 1.5 women for every man in college. That's cool. But it's simply not a quirky statistic that merely highlights how equitable our society has become.

It's an big, interesting, issue with very far reaching consequences. Ironically, every ramification I've seen, and the commentary surrounding women's rise in high education has been negative. Here are some of the things that have change and why they suck for women. To be clear, these discussion is probably most pertinent to the class of society that is college educated, and not gay (obviously for both), and let me reiterate that while big number these observations address few in proportion. But here they are.


Disproportionate number of women to men in college. Tangentially speaking, during college, this ratio had made it such that women have a harder time finding men, so they settle for less. Men seize their opportunity to be more choosy and as a result women have to degrade their standards (or themselves) for love (or sex). 


Women are graduating earlier then their male counterparts. This redefines in a very broad way what women are looking for in a man. Assume this means that there are more educated women than educated men in the dating pool. I suspect this creates a "love premium" for educated men among educated women assuming educated women choose counterparts with similar education and social attributes, and for those who did not find a "college educated man" are dating men with less education. I find the social dynamics in the latter situation to be more interesting.... But at its core, this change sucks for women interestingly because women still marrying at a high rate. This might be a result at the "hedonistic marriage" where women are refusing to compromise on what they deem as important characteristics for a well lived life: a family, marriage, etc. This blows for women too! 


So, I've got a few thoughts on this, but I have to run. At the moment, I think I've put out the foundation for what I think is the problem--Cool Dad response if you will to the changing dynamics of male female college educated heterosexual relationships.