OK, firstly, if this is what "neo-con" means to you then the word is sufficiently broad to have lost all meaning. Secondly, I'm guessing this has more to do wi

OK, firstly, if this is what "neo-con" means to you then the word is sufficiently broad to have lost all meaning. Secondly, I'm guessing this has more to do with broader demographic trends. Since the 1970s there's been a huge increase in the number of people who go to university, so a university-educated person has a broader pool of other university-educated people to choose from. Even more importantly, while in the distant past there were significantly more men going to university than women (and as such there weren't enough educated women to go around), in recent decades the numbers have been more or less equal (though recently women have been overtaking men).