Tangentially related; it was stated by some that the decline in the quality of <i></i><i>education</i><i></i> in the US is due to women having more options for other types of work. Meaning that women were once pigeon-holed into education as a career, thus the many brilliant and smart women who pretty much had education as one of the few career paths socially available to them started to leave to other fields as equality movement opened them up. Now we have results of the people who have entered education as a field being not as high of quality than when we forced all smart women into said field.