The Real Housewives of Trad have disseminated variations of a meme positing that women must choose between advanced educational attainment and having a fulfilling family life. This assertion is not ...

Find The Daily Beast’s coverage of the 2024 election here. Subscribe to The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or Overcast. Royce White, the GOP Senate ...

Highly educated women are increasingly marrying men with less formal education, a reversal of the long-standing hypergamy ...

Now engaged to be married, Michelle Lin has been thinking a lot about last names. She hears about the unity and simplicity that comes with changing hers to her future husband's, but she doesn't want ...

In December, the latest “Women in the Workplace” report from Lean In and McKinsey made a claim that dominated headlines: ...

Once upon a time, it was fairly common for highly educated men in the United States to marry less-educated women. But beginning in the mid-20th century, as more women started to attend college, ...

Black women have long been celebrated for their educational achievements, but does the narrative still hold true that they are the “most educated” in 2025? Recent data suggests that Black women are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Nietzel, former college president, writes on higher education Nationwide, women comprised 58% of all college students in ...

Something shifted quietly in the marriage data over the last decade, and it doesn’t fit the story most of us were told about ...