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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Professional women remaining perpetually single
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 15:44:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 15:44:56 1986
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Summary: 

In article <3300@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>>MARRIAGE RATE DECLINES FOR WOMEN WHO DELAY
>>
>>By William R Greer
>>New York Times
>>
>>Women who defer marriage to go to college and pursue a career are
>>finding that by the time they decide to marry, the marriage market has
>>evaporated, according to a new study by two Yale sociologists and a
>>Harvard economist.
>		etc.
> 
> <a lot of complaints about the article>
>
>What offended me most was the first sentence of the story where the
>writer asserted that the "marriage market has evaporated", and then
>doesn't give one scrap of evidence to show that the "marriage market"
>is actually an issue.  Why assume that all women who aren't married
>are trying to be.

Time for a "let's listen to what the other person is saying before we
answer what we think they're about to say" lecture.  The first sentence
of the quoted article specifically says "by the time they decide to 
marry".  I assume that unless these Yale and Harvard guys are real bozos
that they had *some* basis for deciding that the women they studied had
decided to get married and were having trouble finding a suitable partner.

A side-note to Ed:  I did, other than the one point above, agree with the
points you made in your article concerning women pursuing a career.
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