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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have several female friends who went to Harvard undergrad.

All got great jobs out of college: venture capitalist, editor at a publishing house, microfinance, investment banking. One went on to Harvard Law then was an associate at a top NYC firm. 
Then they had kids....

ALL of them have mommy tracked themselves if they stayed in the same field. One completely changed careers to something more family friendly. Two aren't even working any more because of family needs.

My point is, yes, going to a top school can set you up for a great career but you may not want to stay there. All of those women are exactly where many other moms have ended up, despite the college they attended. [/quote]

So…are you basically saying women for the most part still go to college for their MRS degree?  Sure sounds like it.[/quote]

Smart and mature young men and women prioritize meeting a spouse in college. Dating around after college on apps full of random weirdos is frankly disgusting. Quickly settling down in your 20s should be emphasized by all parents.[/quote]

Not anymore. Kids graduate at 21 or 22 then they go to graduate school. Nobody is meeting spouses in college anymore.

Mature young people who prioritize getting married meet in graduate school. [/quote]

What are people who go to graduate school in a heavily gendered field supposed to do? Hit the apps? [/quote]

They do the meet-ups with the other graduate programs at their school that are heavily gendered in the other direction--or are more balanced in gender. [/quote]

In Boston, there are grad school meet-ups for within schools and across Harvard, MIT, BU, Tufts combined etc.   I already had a partner, but there were so many people getting married across grad programs.  There were definitely some people -- male and female--who had a secondary curriculum of finding a life partner during grad school.  There were so many engagements and weddings.  [/quote]

The famous MRS degree.[/quote]

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