Record number of U.S. wives more educated than their husbands: study

By Marina Lopes NEW YORK (Reuters) – A record number of wives in the United States are more educated than their husbands, as the rate of college-educated women grows, according to the Pew Research Center. "It used to be more common for a husband to have more education than his wife in America," Wendy Wang, a research associate at Pew, said in a statement on her findings. After three decades of steadily increasing, the percentage of couples in which husbands are more educated fell to 20 percent in 2012. The trend among newlyweds is even more pronounced, in part, due to rising college graduation rates for women, the study says.