Review of Educated in Romance

Critical Review of Educated in Romance Book

Family and peer relations are critical to understanding the social and academic life of young women . For the past several decades , women have proven their worth by establishing great educational , professional , and social developments . Nowadays , a significant number of women are perceived to be actively taking part in worlds that were traditionally dominated by men . Generally , majority of incoming female college students , with their vibrant career aspirations , apparently expect to have a rewarding profession after school and even after marriage However , reality tends to

show the opposite of this culture . Bright and highly motivated young women fail to fulfill their academic and career goals after having been exposed to collegiate experiences , school assignments , dating practices , friendships , and family ties . Moreover most of the young male students of the present day world believe that

they will marry women who do not need a career after college because they will have to eventually stay at home . This made motivated college women set aside their career aspirations for married life and appreciation of their beauty by their partners . They strive to establish their marriage and become physically attractive so as to be appreciated by their partners - all at the expense of education

The book Educated in Romance : Women , Achievement , and College Culture ' written by anthropologists Dorothy C . Holland and Margaret A Eisenhart (1990 , shows how romance apparently reversed the decisions of young women . According to the research stated in the book , female students actually entered college with aspirations and high levels of enthusiasm . However , their future careers were eventually subdued because of their romantic involvement with men . These women to spend the rest of their lives with their loved ones rather than work hard to achieve their supposedly promising professions . The book presented the results of the study made by the authors involving incoming female college students who to get less prestigious jobs and earn far less than their male counterparts rather than to pursue their career goals . The book describes the turn-outs of the lives of the women college students fostered by the decisions made by the students themselves . The Holland and Eisenhart study illustrates how young men and women students positioned themselves differently for careers , marriage , and parenthood after having been exposed to intimate relationships

The research of Holland and Eisenhart (1990 ) principally studied what was coined as a "culture of romance " on college campuses . The authors research and findings were based on an in-depth interview of 23 young college women and examination of 362 other female students in a predominantly white state university and a large , predominantly black university . The authors learned that instead of advancing their respective career paths , the concerned young female students put an extraordinary amount of time and effort into grooming , talking about dates and relationships , and participating in dating and events to attract dates . According to Holland and Eisenhart (1990 , these factors and exposures eventually changed the students ' future professional perspectives . As a reverse of their...