Re:College as a Marriage Market
by DoreenMichele on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:18AM
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What I don't see is that people join the institution with that market as an intention.
There is an old fashioned term that "She's just there to get her MRS." that used to be said about women attending college so they could marry a better class of man.
I don't know how intentional that was on the part of women and how much it was simply expected that wives deferred to their husband's career. I've read/heard a fair number of true stories where a woman had trouble pursuing her career because she married a man with similar career interests and this made her largely unemployable. His employer wouldn't hire her and competitors of his employer also wouldn't hire her.
I believe it was Madeleine Albright who said in an interview she wanted to be a journalist but couldn't get a job as a reporter because her husband was a reporter. The paper he worked for wouldn't hire her and neither would other papers.
Wikipedia doesn't mention that but does say:
In January 1960, the couple moved to her husband's hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Joseph worked at the Chicago Sun-Times as a journalist, and Albright worked as a picture editor for Encyclopædia Britannica.
There is an old fashioned term that "She's just there to get her MRS." that used to be said about women attending college so they could marry a better class of man.
I don't know how intentional that was on the part of women and how much it was simply expected that wives deferred to their husband's career. I've read/heard a fair number of true stories where a woman had trouble pursuing her career because she married a man with similar career interests and this made her largely unemployable. His employer wouldn't hire her and competitors of his employer also wouldn't hire her.
Edits:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MRS%20Degree
https://thoughtcatalog.com/isla-sofia/2014/03/7-definitive-w...
I believe it was Madeleine Albright who said in an interview she wanted to be a journalist but couldn't get a job as a reporter because her husband was a reporter. The paper he worked for wouldn't hire her and neither would other papers.
Wikipedia doesn't mention that but does say:
In January 1960, the couple moved to her husband's hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Joseph worked at the Chicago Sun-Times as a journalist, and Albright worked as a picture editor for Encyclopædia Britannica.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright