The lack of college-educated men is forcing women to 'marry down'

More and more women are "marrying down" when it comes to education levels, said The Atlantic . The practice of "hypogamy" – partnering up with someone of a lower social class or education level – is on the rise. Women are now more likely than men to marry a partner with a lower level of formal education.

Marriages have been "moving in a more egalitarian direction" since the mid-20th century when more women began attending university and entering the job market. But now the trend of women partnering up with their "educational equals" seems to be reversing.

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Women now outnumber men in higher education in almost all developed countries. In the UK , more women were accepted into university than men for the first time in 1996, and that gap has only grown; in 2024, female studen