Monday, April 13, 2015

Just 49% of college-educated black women marry a well-educated man (i.e., with at least some post-secondary education), compared to 84% of college-educated white women, according to an analysis of PSID data by Yale sociologist Vida Maralani

Young white women — aged between 25 and 35 — are the most likely to have at least a BA (37%), followed by white men (29%), black women (23%) and black men (16%). Marriage rates are lower among black women compared to white women, even among those with a college education. The proportion of black college graduates aged 25 to 35 who have never married is 60%, compared to 38% for white college-educated women. White women with college degrees are more than twice as likely as their black counterparts (29% v 13%) to be married to someone of equal or greater educational status. Married, black college graduates are much more likely to have a husband with a lower level of education, compared to whites of a similar background (58% v 48%). Married black women with at least a college degree are less likely than their white counterparts to be in the top household income quintile (27% compared to 35%) and more likely to be in a lower income quintile. In fact, black college graduates are equally likely to be in the fourth income quintile as in the top quintile.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The negro males are in prison or on parole, have dropped out of high school and are illiterate, are busy with "muh dik," etc. It is very difficult for them to find husbands of similar status.

Luke Raines said...

Blacks of both genders are more likely to major in soft areas such as African-American studies while whites are more likely to major in STEM areas.

Anonymous said...

The humanities, social sciences, journalism and education departments are filled with white females. In engineering and physics I saw very, very few.

Average Joe said...

Those departments still provide greater job opportunities for graduates and are more intellectually demanding than African-American studies which primarily exists to give jobs to black "professors". Also while there are fewer white females in engineering and physics than white males, they generally outnumber the blacks.

Anonymous said...

Yes, Joe, I saw the negroes completely disappear by the end of one or two semesters. Must be " institutional racism" and microaggressions to blame.