The Size of Families of College and Non-College Women

Data obtained from an equal number of married college women and also from their female relatives and friend of the same social class who had had no college education indicates that while those of the former group had only 1.48 children per marriage as against 1.77 children of the latter, the non-college women were on the average three years older and had had 4.4 more years of married life at the time the study was made. Despite the fact that four years of higher education raised the age of marriage of college women nearly a year and a half, they had borne an average of 0.164 children per year as against 0.132 for the non-college group. The greater interest of college women in professional employments probably operates to increase the number of college wives engaging in gainful occupations, which reacts dysgenically on the birth-rate

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• Women’s sociological research and writing in the AJS in the pre-World War II era

  Open Access•Linda Grant, Sierra L Grant et al.•The American Sociologist•2002

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