Susan Patton never questions the norm that women should "marry up" -- and by extension, men should marry "down" -- on a variety of dimensions, including education, accomplishment and age. (Nor does she question the assumption that mate choice is universally heterosexual, but that is a topic for another debate.) Yet a thorough gender revolution means questioning such assumptions about how women (and men) select a life partner.

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However, it is an accomplishment that I went through higher education and received a graduate degree and am now successfully practicing law.

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But Bush chose to focus on a recent bipartisan accomplishment -- the passage of broad changes to federal education law -- in his Saturday address.

CNN: Bush calls education 'civil rights issue of our time'

Family members finding their grandmother had completed four years of college by 1940 will learn that her accomplishment put her among the top 5% of U.S. residents in terms of education.

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