高學歷女性被迫“下嫁” 全職爸爸出爐
Women are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers.
Universities minister David Willetts predicted relationships and traditional household structures will be transformed as the fairer sex powers ahead, and women earn more than their male partners.
Successful women will have to "marry down" by choosing partners less qualified than them – and may increasingly select men based on how supportive they might be to their careers, rather than whether they can support them financially.
And experts say women will often become the main breadwinners, with more men staying at home to look after children.
Mr Willetts said there was clear evidence from schools that boys are "lagging behind", and are being overtaken by female students at university.
He said: "I am not against women having those advantages but there is now a rather striking gap, if you look at the statistics, where it looks as if approximately 50 percent of women are graduating from university by the time they're 30 and perhaps about 40 per cent of men."
He added: "It may lead to changes in the patterns of household living. So there are some deep questions here."
The Philadelphia-based Pew Research Centre study, published in The Atlantic magazine, suggests female graduates are being put in similar situation to that faced for some time by black women.
In America, 70 percent of black women have no husband and there are twice as many black women as black men with university degrees.
Many educated British women believe there is already a dearth of traditional husbands.據英國《每日郵報》11月6日報道，昨日一名政府高級官員表示，現今女性在受教育程度和工作情況上都超越了男性——這也造就了新一代的“全職爸爸”。
英國大學事務大臣戴維·威利茨預言，隨着女性權力的提升，加之收入超過了男性伴侶，男女之間的關係以及傳統家庭結構將會發生轉變。
成功女性將不得不“下嫁”，選擇那些不如自己優質的伴侶——而且在選擇另一半時會越來越多地考慮他們是否能夠在事業上對自己有所幫助，而不是去想他們是不是能在經濟上提供支持。
專家聲稱，女性將會成爲養家餬口的主力，會有更多的男性留在家中照看孩子。
威利茨先生說，學校方面已有明確的證據表明，男孩子比較落後，在大學裏，女生也超過了男生。
他說：“我並不反對女性擁有這樣的優勢，但現在已經形成了相當驚人的差距，如果你看一下統計數據，就會發現看起來似乎50%的女性都是大學畢業生，但與此同時，男性中大學畢業生的比例只佔30%到40%左右。”
他說：“這很可能導致家庭生活模式的變化。因此還有許多值得深入研究的問題。”
總部位於費城的皮尤研究中心在《大西洋月刊》上發表了一篇研究報告，其中指出，有時候女畢業生的處境與黑人婦女很相似。
在美國，70%的黑人女性沒有丈夫，而擁有大學學歷的黑人女性數量是男性的兩倍之多。
許多受過良好教育的英國女性認爲，現下傳統意義上的丈夫已經不多了。
