Writing for The Washington Post, George Will weighs in on the topic of assortative mating, the tendency for people to marry those with similar educations and upbringing. Complicating this trend is the recent tendency for fewer males than females to graduate from college.
Graduate gender disparity is greater for some groups than others, particularly for African-Americans and Hispanics as noted by the Pew Center. There is little disparity among Asians. Will does not comment upon group differences..
A future topic about which liberals and conservatives will dramatically disagree is the extent to which government should attempt to remedy group shortfalls arising out of differential assortative mating. That is, to what extent are differential group outcomes tolerable as the results of group cultural differences, of choices made and lived with? I predict conservatives will be much more comfortable therewith.
