Secondly, I agree with Dave that is not the degree contributing to higher divorce rates, but the type of woman that is pursuing that degree. I have many friends from back home who have graduated with their bachelors, met the man of their dreams, and are completely content with being stay at home moms. They type of girl that pursues a secondary degree is one that is driven and motivated, with a deep desire to become successful. If this is the case, having a man that wants to hold her back and make her become a stay at home mom will undoubtedly lead to a divorce.

The one thing that I can take from this is that if I am a manager in the future I will simply just hire high school graduates or college dropouts, that way these statistics wont apply and I will probably be safe. Of course if I use this tactic I probably wont have a very successful company. In all truth, I don’t know what I will do, but when I get to that point I will get to see if I am cut out to be a leader.

(Bill Clinton Sex Scandal)…The question that many Americans and others throughout the world asked in 1998, “Why on earth would the most powerful man in the world jeopardize his job for an affair with a young woman?” is a silly question. Betzig’s answer would be: Why not?

The underlying motive of all human behavior is reproductive; reproductive success is the purpose of all biological existence, including humans. Humans do much of what they do, directly or indirectly, knowingly or (usually) unknowingly, to achieve reproductive success. Attaining political office is no exception. From this perspective, men strive to attain political power (as Bill Clinton did all his life, since his fateful encounter with John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1963), consciously or unconsciously, in order to have reproductive access to a larger number of women. In other words, reproductive access to women is the goal, political office is but one means. To ask why the President of the United States would have a sexual encounter with a young woman is like asking why someone who worked very hard to earn a large sum of money would then spend it. The purpose of earning money is to spend it. The purpose of becoming the President (or anything else men do) is to have a larger number of women with whom to mate…

I know this might sound absurd, but think about it for a moment. If this is NOT true, then HUMAN BEING are the ONLY ANIMAL IN THE WORLD that don’t live for the sole purpose of reproduction/sex.

All animals in the world one way or another, live for sex. If you study animal behavior, they grow up become powerful and beautiful, for no other purpose than mating. Once they mate and have off-spring, they get OLD and BECOME WEAK and then replaced/retired by YOUNG, because they already fulfilled their purpose…which is sex.

And look around, how much effort and money and energy people put into directly or indirectly to be successful at mating? Why do you think women spend so much money and worrying about… 1. diet. 2. make-up. 3. hair. 4. appearance in general. 5. accessories. Or why guys spend so much time and devotion into 1. sports. 2. body building. 3. status. 4. career?

Ultimately while moral and religion try to move us toward the other direction, the force to simply mate with as many women as a man could is inevitable.

Women on the other hand, don’t want to do that, because while it’s the best interest of the specie to have men that mate a lot, it’s the best interest of the specie for women to be loyal and staying to one man, in order to take care of offspring. The difference can be seen in how much time reproduction takes for different sex.

For men, it takes 5 minutes to finish mating. For women, it takes 10 month. In other words, in order for a specie to be most successful in surviving, women don’t want to mate with many men.

Just two cents from evolution biologists. These opinion above do NOT reflect my personal belief. Purely intellectual and philosophical exercise.

You are not taking data at face value and are able to spot strengths and weaknesses in data and its presentation.

I like it.

And the fact that women divorce more than men, leads me to believe nothing more than a larger percent of MBA students that are married are women. Because, under todays law, it takes both a woman and a man to get married, so it’s impossible to have more women divorced in an equal sample.

However, if there are no flaws in the study, I hope I do not become one of the 11%. Powerful women are certainly not traditional and could cause some stress on a relationship. Someone needs to care for the children, and if both partners want to be on the successful career path, it won’t work.

Anyway, I would love to hear more about how exactly this survey of 100,000 professionals was conducted. The article says things like “5% of whom reported being divorced or separated.” How accurate are these “reports?” I mean haven’t we learned that we can make statistics say whatever we want?

The title of the article is catchy, but I wouldn’t be too worried about the results of this survey. What worries me is Ms. Hewlett’s idea that “such women ‘can’t summon up the TLC and support that high-earning men need.’” But hey, maybe she has found the key. Let’s turn it around and find out how many high-earning women get the “TLC and support” they need and take another look at why our divorce rate is higher than our male counterparts.