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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education is a status symbol. It’s separate from actually holding a job. The UMC guy marries a highly educated woman as a status symbol. Whether she continues working is another matter. [/quote]

As a status symbol? How about because you want to spend time with someone who is well educated. You will have to talk to this person over many dinners, long car rides and vacations. They will be co- raising your children. to my way of thinking, education is not a status symbol, but you are probably the type of person who would choose your kid's college based upon having a bumper sticker that will impress the neighbors. [/quote]

Obviously compatibility is a given. Does not negate that a high educated wife that may not choose to work is a status symbol. It makes moving in certain social circles easier. What the woman does with her education after is not important, [b]a woman with a high powered career doesn’t make her a more interesting partner. [/b][/quote]

That's true to some extent, except having a career is shorthand for a lot of things that do make someone a more interesting partner. Having your own life and passions, having a world of people and projects, challenging yourself to meet externally defined goals, being involved in something that is of value and benefit to society, developing your own skills and talents, learning new things, defining your own path... sure, you could volunteer a bit here and there and take up yoga, but that's usually not going to satisfy someone who has any fire in the belly. I see a lot of wealthy women in my circle who did not have careers or dropped out and they are restless. They dabble here and there in old hobbies and take up temporary causes, but they are all a bit dissatisfied with tennis in the morning and dinner planning in the afternoon. They would not admit it because it's not considered acceptable, but you can't educate women to the level that they could be astronauts or judges and then stick them in a car to do drop off/ pick up. It just doesn't work that way.
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