Back in the optimistic quarter century after WW II, this was probably quite common. A women with an expensive degree from a good school got to keep a household

Back in the optimistic quarter century after WW II, this was probably quite common. A women with an expensive degree from a good school got to keep a household running, maybe typing theses for income, while a man, not necessarily better equipped for academic work, got a Ph.D. I suspect that it was part of what gave the emerging feminist movement such a fund of well-educated, articulate, and pissed-off women to draw on. I guess the writer is fortunate, and I hope that his good fortune will continue. I seem to know an awful lot of folks who married at 21 and divorced before 30.