r cent. married 78 74 67 72 59 57 55
Per cent. who have gone into 20 13 12 19 30 30 39
other occupations than
home-making

A graph, plotted to show how soon after graduation these girls have
married, demonstrates that the greatest number of them wed five or six
years after receiving their diplomas, but that the number of those
marrying 10 years afterward is not very much less than that of the girls
who become brides in the first or second year after graduation (see Fig.
35).

C. S. Castle's investigation[107] of the ages at which eminent women of
various periods have married, is interesting in this connection, in
spite of the small number of individuals with which it deals:

_Century_ _Average age_ _Range_ _Number of cases_
12 16.2 8-30 5
13 16.6 12-29 5
14 13.8 6-18 11
15 17.6 13-26 20
16 21.7 12-50 28
17 20.0 13-43 30
18 23.1 13-53 127
19 26.2 15-67 189

Women in coeducational colleges, particularly the great universities of
the west, can not be compared without corrections with the women of the
eastern separate colleges, because they represent different family and
environmental selection. Their record none the less deserves careful
study. Miss Shinn[108] calculated the marriage rate of college women as
follows, assuming graduation at the age of 22:

_Women over_ _Coeducated_ _Separate_
25 38.1 29.6
30 49.1 40.1
35 53.6 46.6
40 56.9 51.8

She has shown that only a part of this discrepancy is attributable to
the geographic difference, some of it is the effect of lack of
co-education. Some of it is also attributable to the type of education.

The marriage rate of women graduates of Iowa State College[109] is as
follows:

1872-81 95.8
1882-91 62.5
1892-01 71.2
1902-06 69.0

Study of the alumni register of Oberlin,[110] one of the oldest
coeducational institutions, shows that the marriage rate of women
graduates, 1884-1905, was 65.2%, only 34.8% of them remaining unmarried.
If the later period, 1890-1905, alone is taken, only 55.2% of the girls
have married. The figures for the last few