(Listing of the top traits of a black woman as most commonly googled) She is beautiful, compassionate, widely regarded as the mother of civilization, independent, at time perceived as angry, resilient and most recently in some studies shown as the most educated in america, she is none other than a black woman.
Thesis - College educated black woman are having trouble find a spouse do to the gap between black college educated men and black educated woman, economic divide between black men and black woman, and black woman and marrying outside of their culture
Only 49% of black woman marry a college educated man who makes around the same income according Philip N Cohen a sociologist professor at University of Maryland. In our class …show more content…
That being said Black men make us 32% of the associate degrees awarded to blacks while black women makeup 68%. Now the odds seem to get better when we talk about bachelor degrees they make up 34% but that doesn’t seemed to hold a candle to the 66% of black women. Black woman make up 71% of master degrees that are earned by blacks and 65% of all doctorate. Why does this matter because at FAMU our population is made of 37% of males to 63% of females. This is hypothetical if every person on our campus aspired to marriage and there were no LGBT, and only blacks on campus only about half of our female students would be able to get married who would be consider an equal in education as far as being college …show more content…
Patton President of the class of 77’ told students in 2013 “Here’s what nobody is telling you find a husband while you on campus before graduating, You will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you” . This seems to be accurate for black woman, although there may be many other unknown factors such as Black lgbt, perhaps having kids young, and even portrayal of the media, etc. The main causes as to why college educated black women seem to not be getting married are lack of black college educated males, the black economic gap between men and woman, and the fear of marrying outside of one's race own race. So instead of passing judgement on someone next time they say they aren't married, don’t be so quick it may not be that something is wrong with them. The truth is it could be something that is wrong with society. Maybe now you can understand, that’s why she ain’t got no man. Thank