Women want world peace. And a new VCR.
Posted on 03/05/2006 10:21:31 PM PST by neverdem
Freud confessed that his “thirty years of research into the feminine soul” left him unable to answer one great question: “What does a woman want?” Modern feminists have been arguing for decades over a variation of it: What should a woman want?
This week, two sociologists from the University of Virginia are publishing the answer to a more manageable variation. Drawing on one of the most thorough surveys ever done of married couples, they’ve crunched the numbers and asked: What makes a woman happy with her marriage?
Their answer doesn’t quite jibe with current conventional wisdom. Three decades ago, two-thirds of Americans surveyed said it was better for wives to focus on homemaking and husbands to focus on breadwinning, but by the 1990s, only a third embraced the traditional division of labor. The new ideal — in theory, not in practice — became a partnership of equals who split duties inside and outside the home.
This new egalitarian marriage was hailed by academics and relationship gurus as a recipe for a happier union. As wives went off to work and husbands took on new jobs at home, couples would supposedly have more in common and more to talk about. Husbands would do more “emotion work,” as sociologists call it, and wives would be more fulfilled.
That was the theory tested by the Virginia sociologists, Bradford Wilcox and Steven Nock, who analyzed a survey of more than 5,000 couples. Sure enough, they found that husbands’ “emotion work” was crucial to wives’ happiness. Having an affectionate and understanding husband was by far the most important predictor of a woman’s satisfaction with her marriage.
But it turns out that an equal division of labor didn’t make husbands more affectionate or wives more fulfilled. The wives working outside the home reported less satisfaction with...
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I believe that was the question that King Arthur sought to answer, and he found the answer, as well - an answer which stands true even unto our time...
Chocolate.
Mhhm.
Modern media has distorted the image of what components truly make a decent guy for many women. Oprah, Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer, and a bunch of others have really been a woman's worst enemy.
~ Blue Jays ~
LOL. I'm old. You'll just have to trust me on this.
BTW, my husband and I used to laugh ourselves silly at the Red Green Show (or whatever that was called.) Of course, maybe it was the time it came on.
You got the name right. And it certainly wasn't the time.
You just have not found the right one yet.
If they had asked me, I could have told them the above when I was 19.
" But I’d bet there’s a limit to egalitarianism. Consider what’s happened with housework, that perpetual sore point. From the 1960s through the ‘80s, wives cut back on housework as husbands did more. In the 1990s, though, the equalizing trend leveled off, leaving wives still doing nearly twice as much of the work at home."
Well, DUH!!!! Most Mothers who work full time really are overworked. That's one of the reasons I have never supported or recommended it.
Yeah, that's what everyone says.
My wife really wants me to stop looking at her "like that." I know this because every time she finishes lecturing me about one of my numerous failings, she finishes up by telling me, "Don't look at me like that!"
Better to find the right one than marry the wrong one and divorce, and pay child support while some other man raises your children.
How old are you?
And among those with outside jobs, the happiest wives, regardless of the family’s overall income, were the ones whose husbands brought in at least two-thirds of the money. These male providers-in-chief were regarded fondly by even the most feminist-minded women — the ones who said they believed in dividing duties equally. In theory, these wives were egalitarians, but in their own lives they preferred more traditional arrangements.
Having succeeded in placing their turds on the white tablecloth, the feminists decided that a good time had been had by all, and before returning home to their loving husbands, they said in unison:
"Never mind."
21.
Yeah, yeah, plenty of time, I know.
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