strange observation...

i went to a meeting for new adjunct faculty at my local community college where i'll now be teaching an online course. i made an observation, and while it wasn't a scientific one, it seemed odd.

there were 35 of us in this meeting, all new adjuncts. there were 22 women in this group. of those 22 women, only 3 had on wedding rings. now i realize that not every married woman wears a ring. but even if a handful were not wearing their rings, that seems like an odd number of unmarried professional women in that group.

our ages ranged from the second-year grad students who were under 25 to a few women discussing their grandchildren entering college. that's a wide age spread.

i wonder what that means. does it mean that i'm in a larger group than i thought, this group of professional, single women?