Today women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelors degrees and more than half of master

s and Ph.D.s. Many people believe that, as this may be good for women as income earners, it【M1】______ foreshadows ill for their marital prospects. As Kate Bolick wrote in a much-discussed article in The Atlantic last fall, American women face "a radical shrinking pool【M2】______ of 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,【M3】______ and experts claim that those who do marry will end up with satisfactory matches. They point to outdated studies suggesting【M4】______ that women with high earnings than their husbands do more【M5】______ housework to compensate for the threat to their mates egos. Is this really the fate facing with educated women: either no【M6】______ marriage at all or the marriage with more housework？ Nonsense.【M7】______ That may have been the case in the past, but no longer. By 1996, intelligence and education moved up to No. 5 on mens ranking of【M8】______ desirable 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 by 2008, mens interest in a womans education had arisen to No. 4,【M9】______ just after mutual attraction, dependent character and emotional【M10】______ stability.

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