Sunday, April 21, 2013

Counterintuitive

Charles Murray notes that women from elite universities are more likely to be stay-at-home-moms than those from other universities.  Steve Sailer comments about a school his children went to:
...if they had been merely senior vice presidents and their husbands were doing well, they often would pack it in career-wise. So, the school would have ultracompetent volunteer moms with Dartmouth MBAs and investment banking experience running refreshment stands at school events. Nothing ever went wrong at that school.

3 comments:

james said...

"In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth."

Kurt said...

I came across a fascinating counter-example of this the other day. A college classmate of mine with an elite MBA is a senior VP at an investment firm, and in a twist, her husband is a stay-at-home dad. He did not attend an elite school, but instead has a background in the arts.

Sam L. said...

These women are smarter than we knew...