Fortune· 2h ago· 1 min read
For decades, the story of American higher education has been about women pulling ahead. Now a new study shows that shift is also reshaping who marries whom—and it's women without college degrees who are paying the price.
Fortune has been chronicling how money shapes marriage since long before this study — the magazine's Julie Connelly coined the term “trophy wife” itself in a 1989 cover story, a phrase that's since become an inescapable shorthand across pop culture for wealth-driven pairings. Now, new research suggests the more consequential story about marriage and money is happening in the opposite direction: not among the wealthy elite, but in the widening gap between non-college women and the shrinking pool of “marriageable” men.
A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper tracked marriage patterns across U.S. birth cohorts from 1930 to 1980 and found that…
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