The Rise of the Singletons

In the 1990s, my father taught a course on engineering at Boston University. The class was almost all men. But every semester, a few token women would show up for the first day of class and never return. My dad used to joke they were “husband hunting.” One of his one-day-only students went on to marry the owner of the Boston Red Sox. She did not become an engineer. Although women still lag in STEM fields, taking an engineering class to nail a husband would be laughable to most women today. Sure, the pressure to get married and have kids is still there, but it is far less. <a href="https://medium.com/heart-affairs/the-rise-of-the-singletons-3f6ae4584cdd">Visit Now</a>