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Some women go to college because they want the education. A woman who is looking for an MRS degree, though, is in college because she is looking for a husband (going from a Miss to a Mrs., y'see), and college is an excellent place to find educated single men who are likely to make a good salary in the future. These days it mostly shows up in historical fiction. If a modern woman wants to go to college just to get a man, she'll either change her mind by the end of the story for her own edification/self-improvement, or she'll be presented as shallow, selfish, or simply as squandering her opportunities. If the story wants to portray the woman positively, she may be accused of having an MRS degree (possibly by a Straw Feminist), but she may give a few retorts, such as: There's no shame in being a homemaker/stay-at-home parent. Her husband is a political or religious leader, or some other public-facing career where being their spouse is practically a job of its own. She's still a college-educated woman. Even if her actual degree is in a "useless" major like English, art, or history, it can still land her an entry-level office job and she could build a career from there if she so desired. Point is, her lifestyle is by choice, not because she needs a man to take care of her, and she won't hesitate to leave him if he mistreats her. Can overlap with Gold Digger or (more sympathetically) fears of becoming an Old Maid. A Fantasy-Forbidding Father may assume this trope is the only reason his daughter is interested in (or should pursue) higher education, and will often frustrate her college dreams by pushing her to focus more on boys and less on books (if he doesn't refuse to help her pay for college to begin with). Contrast Higher Education Is for Women, although both this trope and the opposite trope can overlap if the woman wants both an education and a husband, particularly if she didn't have a High School Sweetheart. (And it is worth noting that a lot of people do meet their future spouses in college, or will at least have their first serious romantic relationship.) |
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The fact that the catchprase of Patricia Fernandez in Yo soy Betty, la fea is "Yo estudié seis semestres de Finanzas en la San Marino" ("I studied six semesters of Finance in San Marino College") suggest heavily that she had this trope in mind when she got to college. Since she begins the soap having to get a job for the very first time on her life because her husband dumped her and her family don't want to take her back, it obviously didn't take. | |
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Gilmore Girls: The Gilmores are a very wealthy upper-class family from New England. Richard has worked in an insurance business and owns all kinds of important property. Emily met Richard while he was a student at Yale, and she studied history at Smith. This trope is deconstructed in the revival; after Richard’s death, Emily is unmoored and unable to find direction in life without the ballast of married, upper-society life to guide her. Her character arc involves finding her own passions, which involve leaving the DAR, moving to Nantucket, and putting that Smith degree to good use by becoming a docent for a whaling museum. Emily also had similar plans for Lorelai, who is reticent to invite her parents to any of her life milestones because she feels they are embarrassed by her—she was supposed to “go to Vassar and marry a Yale manâ€� but instead had a Teen Pregnancy and ended up as a maid at an inn. Emily tries to manufacture this for her granddaughter Rory in season 4, throwing a party of “Yale menâ€� specifically so they can get to know Rory and potentially become a suitor. This in spite of the fact Rory also goes to Yale and has designs on a career. |
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In BoJack Horseman, BoJack's mother Beatrice is shown in a flashback to have been smart enough to get an actual college degree...much to the disappointment of her father Joseph Sugarman, who was hoping she'd find a husband at college but instead came home with a real degree "and a mouth full of sass". He then writes off her education as "a waste". | |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, Lisa is offered a free ride to any one of the Seven Sisters Colleges, personified as college girls in a dream. "You could go to Radcliffe and meet Harvard men! Or go to Wellesley and marry them." | |
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In Titanic (1997), Rose's mother says, "But the purpose of university is to find a suitable husband. Rose has already done that." Cleolinda Jones mentions this trope by name in her Movies in 15 Minutes book parody of the movie. |
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Referenced on Mama's Family when Mama appears on Jeopardy!. During the contestant interview portion of the game, this bit occurs: | |
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Technically this is why Nao went to Garderobe in My-Otome, she intended on using her Otome education to find a rich husband and live an easy life. A series of circumstances force her to become one of the Five Columns (essentially headmasters and autonomous forces of Garderobe) instead. She's unhappy about that. | |
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An early Doonesbury took a shot at this one too, way back when the original characters were in college. | |
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Harry Potter: Extra material on Pottermore reveals that Dolores Umbridge worked at the Ministry of Magic in hopes of latching to one of her superiors, in order to bolster her status and security, with no particular desire on which superior it would be, as long as he would be a powerful husband. She ultimately failed because, while her superiors valued her hard work and ambition, once they got to know her they saw her true colors. | |
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Urara Kawashima in Food Wars!, according to Volume 2's Extras, has the dream to "Become a Wife". So while her cooking skills are seemingly enough to get her through the Training Camp (on the risk of being expelled from the academy should she fail) it's clear that her only reason to attend Totsuki Academy isn't to become a chef but to marry one. | |
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Joyce in Dumbing of Age is an extremely sheltered fundamentalist whose stated goal is to find a good husband and drop out. Becky mentioned that this was what her father expected her to do as well, which conflicted with any aspirations she had of her own, not to mention her being a lesbian. (For the record, both of them were getting degrees in education, in order to better homeschool their future children.) The events of the first semester end up causing Joyce to lose her faith and reevaluate her priorities. | |
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Chie Sagamiono of You're Under Arrest! is a very peculiar case of this. For starters, she's the daughter of a rich family, so money is not an issue for her. However, she strongly believes she would be more attractive for a potential husband by being a police officer, which is why she intended to graduate from the academy on top of her class. Sadly that goal was dashed by Yoriko Nikaido accidentally one-upping her in every class, by sheer luck. | |
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Goodness Gracious Me had a sketch about the "Asian University", which offers a non-clinical medical degree for girls who just want to marry a doctor and don't intend to practice medicine. | |
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It's implied that this is what Mr. and Mrs. Heim intend in ∀ Gundam, which is why Kihel decides to take a job as Lord Guin's personal secretary because she feels it will let her be more useful to society. Sochie also intends to join the Militia even before the Moonrace invades because she's not interested in being a mine owner's wife. Sochie ends up engaged to ace pilot Gavane, but he dies before they can marry, and she ends up retiring from the military to take care of an ill Mrs. Heim. It's implied she's not entirely happy about that situation. As for Kihel, she makes one final Twin Switch with Dianna and spends the rest of her life as Queen of the Moon, finally fulfilling her desire to he useful to society. | |
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In The Stranger Times, Hannah never completed her degree because she found a wealthy husband to marry instead. It's unclear whether she went to university with the goal of finding a husband, but the fact that she never bothered to graduate suggests that education wasn't her highest priority. | |
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Legally Blonde has Elle going to Harvard Law School so she can get back her boyfriend, who left her because she wasn't serious enough. After some Character Development, she rejects him when he tries to get back together with her, saying she can't date a bonehead if she wants to make partner in a corporate law firm by the time she's thirty. | |
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In The Sorceress's Orc, Vervain, Mistress of the Magical Sciences, suspects her student Amethyst of being husband-hunting. She is angry at Amethyst for not working hard enough, as she can tell that Amethyst is intelligent enough to achieve something. It later turns out that it's Amethyst's parents who would like her to find a husband. Amethyst herself is rather interested in the Magical Sciences, just a bit bored with all the learning she has to do before she can do anything interesting. | |
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An early Bloom County strip has sorority members who are in college to meet eligible men. | |
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One episode of A Different World has Whitley confessing to Dean Hughes that when she initially came to Hillman, this trope was her plan, complete with a wedding the day after graduation and using her art history degree to pick out the right paintings to decorate the living room. As it happens, she did, in fact, meet her future husband (Dwayne) at Hillman, and they did get married within a year of her graduating. | |
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The titular Kitty Norville was in college partly to follow her White Anglo-Saxon Protestant parent's expectations to find a husband until she was bitten and became a werewolf, which killed her chance to finish her degree or lead the safe, comfortable, suburban lifestyle that her parents can. | |
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Law & Order: One episode unfolded to reveal that a boy was killed because his mother was the head of a sorority for these sorts of women. While she did go on to have a career, she also made it very clear that finding an appropriate husband was a priority for sorority functions, and as the leader, it was her job to "squash bugs" by weeding out unworthy men from attending. One of those "bugs" felt she had ruined his chance of marrying up, and later tracked her down to murder her son so that she would know his pain. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Margarete is attending a military academy to grab a husband. | |
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Where the Boys Are: In this 1960 film about college girls on spring break, Tuggle is categorical about how she's going to college (and spring break) in order to find a husband. | |
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Starsky & Hutch: One of the murder victims in the pilot is a nineteen-year-old girl who was taking pre-law in the hopes of snagging a lawyer. | |
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The novel of The Help makes it clear that the only reason Skeeter and her friends were sent to college was to find good husbands and apparently, this even extends to many jobs available for women. Skeeter's desire to actually pursue a career is seen as odd and her mother outright states that she considers Skeeter's degree just a "pretty piece of paper". | |
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Midge from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has one of these in Russian Literature. She got married right out of college and had two kids. Once she separates from her husband, she gets a job as a make-up counter girl at a department store despite being very intelligent. In a different incident, Midge's mother Rose, who never went to college (who going off the actor’s age was born in roughly 1907) gets her husband/Midge's father Abe—a mathematics professor at Columbia—in trouble for this. Abe persuades the Columbia Art department to let Rose sit in some art classes as a favor to him. She then convinces the girls in the art department to move to the business school because that's where the good husbands are. Since girls getting Mrs Degrees fund the art department, funding dries up. |
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In Gundam: Reconguista in G, Saintflower Academy, a girls' school that works closely with the Capital Guard, apparently exists mainly as a way for young women to find a handsome young Mobile Suit pilot to marry. They are fairly blatant about it too, launching "raids" into the middle of training exercises in full cheerleader uniforms to "raise the boys' spirits". Considering what usually happens to Gundam pilots' love interests in Yoshiyuki Tomino's entries in the franchise, it's amazing the place manages to stay in business. | |
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Dorothea, a songstress from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, enters the Officers Academy hoping to find a noble she can marry and live a stable life for when she is older and her appeal fades. Most of her endings do have her Happily Married or in a happy relationship (marriage is not technically mentioned in some of the endings), though whether she ends up with a noble (or even a ruler) or not depends on who she's paired off with. | |
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In Mona Lisa Smile, Katherine complains that she thought she was educating the leaders of tomorrow, not their wives, as her students are highly capable but have no personal ambition. | |
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As shown in Golden Kamuy, Kaneko Kaeko is considered the laughing stock of her peers in the Peeress' School (then known as the Kazoku Girls' School) because she hasn't given up her studies yet. The expectation for women attending is that she does genuinely learn ladylike techniques as well as various topics, but the ultimate goal is to be wed off and drop out following the announcement. That she hasn't been announced a marriage, and thus, continues on studying, is therefore a testament to her being an unwanted bridal candidate. | |
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In an episode of Friends, Rachel's mother says: "I went from my father's house, to the sorority house to my husband's house." Rachel herself mentioned attending college (a former sorority sister shows up) but in the first episode, when hunting for a job, mentions she's "trained for nothing", so it's likely her college experience was mirroring her mother's or she failed completely. In a flashback, she's heard that she changed her major again because there was never good parking space in front of psychology department. | |
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The episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch titled "Inna-Gadda-Sabrina" has the main character traveling to the 1960s, where she expresses interest in a certain university (one she'd even been strongly considering in the 1990s), but the man tells her that he understands if she wants to get her MRS, but they can't let girls in. | |
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