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Sunday 16 January 2011

THE CURSE OF A SUCCESSFUL BLACK WOMAN, "WHY ARE THEY STILL SINGLE"


If you are a black woman with an advanced degree, there's a good chance you've never been married.
New research from Yale University suggests that highly educated black women are twice as likely to have never been married by the age of 45 as white women with similar education.
Hannah Bruckner, who leads the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University, says the disparity can be partly explained by a difference in dating preferences between some black men and women.
"Black men are more likely to marry outside of their race, and black women are more likely to marry outside of their education," she says.
Bruckner says that is compounded by tough competition for a smaller pool of highly educated black men.
Finding 'Mr. Right'
Kimberly Hill, 37, agrees that the market is slim. But Hill, who has a master's degree and heads up a political consulting firm in Detroit, says black women may need to redefine their ideal partner . for more on the article  click http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112550626 and for the other parts to the video click http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Nightline+Face-+Off+Black+women&aq=f  added by Adesope twitter/sopsydoo

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