This was not always the case. When women began attending colleges in the late 19th century, the primary purpose of this was, I would say, to find husbands among the men who also attended college (under 5% of men in those days), and also, to have the kind of educated background that a man of that sort would want in a wife, to raise his children and take a positive role in society. I think there was also an element of career prep, mostly as a schoolteacher, which was a typical job for a young woman before she married.
Basically, Anne of Green Gables.
This general pattern persisted into the 1960s. Women mostly went to college to find husbands, and to be trained to be the kind of wife that such a husband would want. Typically this was in arts and literature, maybe history.
Today, women don’t find husbands at college. Mostly, they avoid any kind of lasting connection, that would cause problems after college. For example, what do you do when you are attached to a man that is two years older (the norm), and he graduates and moves to a new city to begin work? In the past, women would quit college, without graduating, and move to the new city with her new husband. Maybe she would transfer credits and finish her degree in the new city.
So, college romances (if we can even use that term today) are typically intended to be short-term and provisional from the start.
The education a woman received, prior to 1970, was actually quite useful and important. Basically, look at the Hillsdale College curriculum today, which was probably pretty similar to what most colleges offered in the 1950s. We would want women to be educated in the elements of the civilization that they would take part in and pass on to their children, although typically more in the arts and literature sphere than government or science. This actually provided a nice complement to a man who was involved in business and politics.
We have a serious problem today in that the very best girls, typically from intact upper-income families, are channeled into college and careerism from an early age, and certainly by Age 17. When are you supposed to marry these girls? How? Often they are already rather a mess by the time they become “available” around Age 22, or Age 25 — either due to sluttishness and debauchery, or careerism, or all the Leftist garbage they picked up in college, or a general attitude that they can put off family until their 30s.
There are actually some very nice girls around Age 19, virgins, but you can’t exactly hang around the college to meet these girls, and they are probably already serious Leftist knuckleheads by then. Probably you would either have to know them from earlier, when they were living with their parents, or be introduced by their parents. Not exactly easy.
Churches are probably a good place to look, not for the Age 28+ and Single Moms that are looking for husbands in churches, but for the daughters Age 16-18 of families at church.
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