Well, anecdotal evidence to match your anecdotal evidence: I&#x27;m a female with a master&#x27;s in software engineering and am marrying a guy with one semester of music school who&#x27;s been a social worker for 10 years, in the spring.<p>But less anecdotally: for the first time in history, the percent of couples in which the woman has obtained a higher level of education than the man is higher than the other way around: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;record-share-of-wives-are-more-educated-than-their-husbands&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;record-share...</a> Keep in mind that this is ALL couples, whether they were married last month, or 50 years ago, so the trend can be expected to lag behind current graduation trends. So both men and women seem to be figuring it out, your sister aside.