Afraid of smart women?
 ATLANTA, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The role of women in our society has taken giant steps in the last 20 years, but there's still a ways to go. Women working full-time only earn about 77 percent of the salaries of men working full-time. So where does the difference come from? Could we as a society still be afraid of smart women?
They're everywhere on the news, in politics, in the business world. A woman's place isn't just in the home anymore. But is our society afraid of smart women? There's little hard data, but researchers have claimed that more than half of women believe their success is intimidating to men. A recent survey of 50,000 U.S. households found that women who have graduate degrees or top salaries are actually more likely to marry and have successful relationships than less accomplished women. Georgia State University women's studies lecturer Julie Kubala, Ph.D., says for years, popular culture has perpetuated the fear with old myths and stereotypes.
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October 11, 2008
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"I think people still think smart women or successful women have less chance of getting married, but I think that's not necessarily true. I still think that women are more encouraged to be pretty and encourage others than they are to think for themselves and think critically." Dr. Kubala said. 
now show more than three million American women in their 20s and 30s have advanced degrees, and four million more are already in the high income brackets for their age groups. And with more women joining the workforce, some men say professional women aren't so intimidating anymore.
