Today women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees and more than half of master's and Ph.D.'s. Many peoplebelieve that, as this may be good for women as income earners, it 1foreshadows ill for their marital prospects. As Kate Bolick wrote in a much-discussed article in TheAtlantic last fall, American women face "a radical shrinking pool 2of what are traditionally considered to be 'marriageable' men—those who are better educated and earn more than they do."Educated women worry that they are scaring potential partners, 3and experts claim that those who do marry will end up withsatisfactory matches. They point to outdated studies suggesting 4that women with high earnings than their husbands do more 5housework to compensate for the threat to their mates' egos. Is this really the fate facing with educated women: either no 6marriage at all or the marriage with more housework? Nonsense. 7That may have been the case in the past, but no longer. By 1996,intelligence and education moved up to No. 5 on men's ranking of 8desirable qualities in a mate. The desire for a good cook and housekeeper had dropped to 14th place, near the bottom of the 18-point scale. The sociologist Christine B. Whelan reports that by2008, men's interest in a woman's education had arisen to No. 4, 9just after mutual attraction, dependent character and emotional 10stability.