Women receive 57 percent of bachelor’s degrees, according to ‘The Shriver Report, A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Furthermore black women are twice as likely to go to college.
“In the last 20 to 30 years there are more [black women] with college degrees than black men. It’s only natural that more black women will earn more than their spouses, if they are marrying within their race… a lot of black women have adjusted their expectations,” says Valorie Burton.