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" Good news for diploma-wielding women who are marriage-minded: for the first time in history, you can now rest easy about getting married.A new study shows that the odds a white, female college graduate will get married are just as great as a white woman who did not attend a university. Historically, women have experienced a &amp;amp;#8220;marriage penalty&amp;amp;#8221; for going to college. In 1950, 93 percent of white women who did not go to college got married by age 40, compared to only 66 percent of college grads. This huge gap has finally shrunk to zero, according to recent data. The big turnaround happened with women born in the early 70s (now aged 35-39). Today, all white women in this age group had an 84 percent chance of walking down the aisle before 40&amp;amp;#8212;college degree or not. And it&amp;amp;#8217;s not just white women&amp;amp;#8212;researchers say that for all races, this is the best time in history for marriage. In fact, for the past 20 years, college-educated African American women have been more likely to marry than those without a degree. Did you go to college? Are you married? Did you even know the marriage gap was still an issue? Can you believe those early percentages&amp;amp;#8212;and that the numbers have taken so long to even out? Has anyone chosen marriage over college? More Ways to Get Glamour Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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