• According to the 2006 Current Population Survey, among 35- to 39-year-old women living in medium-size cities, who earn more than $75,000 a year and have a master's degree, 92% are married.
  • Among less-educated, lower-earning women--women of the same age, in the same size city, who earn $30,000 to $35,000 a year and have attended some college--87% are married.
• According to the same data, among married women who earn more than $60,000 per year or have a graduate degree, 84% have kids under 18 at home by age 40 to 44.
  • Lower-earning married women in this same situation are only at 70%
• A woman of 40 to 44 who had 19 years of education--college plus graduate school--had a 66% chance of being married
  • Compared with a woman with 12 years of education, who had an 83% likelihood of being married at that age. 
• Women with professional or doctoral qualifications were twice as likely to be childless at age 40 as women with some college.
• Harris Interactive, a polling company, found that 82% of single high-achieving women (women who have a graduate degree or are in the top 10% of earners for their age group ($50,000 for women 25 to 35 years old) are open to marrying a man who earns less money than they do
  • 61% of that same group report that they would be comfortable being the primary breadwinner in their family. 
• Men welcome this new partnership: 71% of men who earn in the top 10% for their age group or hold graduate degrees say a woman's career or educational success makes her more desirable as a wife
  • 68% report that smart women make better mothers
  • 90% say they want to marry, or are already married to, a woman who is at least as intelligent as they are.

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