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In the USA 70% of divorces are women initiated. When filtered to those with a college degree it's 90%

Does US law require one person to initiate the divorce? That will mean that in many cases in which both want a divorce on has to initiate it legally?

> When filtered to those with a college degree it's 90%

Interesting, but why? I suspect the answer is economics.

You’re saying of all the female divorce initiators, 90% have a college degree?

Or that out of all the initiators with college degrees, 90% are women?

does mutual divorce figure into this, and if so, how is one party be both parties having a college degree counted?

I think a third option. Of all the women with college degrees who took part in a divorce, 90% were first to file.

But I dunno. Divorce stats tend to be reported with less meaningful stats that are easy to calculate, but don't mean much.