I just read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about women who hold professional degrees and their respective rate of divorce.
According to a soon-to-be-published study by Washington & Lee University School of Law Prof. Robin Fretwell Wilson, women with M.B.A.s are twice as more likely to divorce than men.
The study surveyed over 100,000 professionals in the fields of business, law, and medicine. Prof. Wilson’s conclusion was that professional degrees were hazardous to a women’s marital health.
Prof. Wilson’s study showed women who hold law or medical degrees divorce less than those with only a bachelor’s degree. However, they divorce more than their male counterparts (that is 10% of women with law degrees and 9% of women with medical degrees, compared with 7% of male lawyers and 5.1% of male doctors).
The study also showed women with M.B.A.s to divorce or separate more often than women with hold only bachelor’s degrees (that is 12% of female M.B.A.s compared with 11% of women with only bachelor’s degrees).
