<p>Berurah, I’m a somewhere in the middle on the early marriage thing. On the one hand, I know a variety of women who pursued a career and are now alone in middle age - I don’t know if I’d call them happy or fulfilled. On the other hand, I think everyone, male or female, should complete as much formal education as possible, preferably before starting a family. Things happen in life – divorce, death, disability – which mean that it’s important to be self-supporting. But as I approach the Big 50, I think that life’s happiness is far more dependent on relationships with family and friends, than it is on career achievement. I think it will always be harder for women to combine both worlds – most men seem to find it easier to separate work and family. But even with my sons, I would expect that they wouldn’t get married until finishing an undergraduate degree at least. Being a married grad student is not that big a deal to me, but it’s hard to be a married undergrad for some reason.</p>