Posted on 06/04/2013 10:28:45 AM PDT by blam
Men In America Aren't Keeping Up With The Economy
Blaire Briody, The Fiscal Times
Jun. 4, 2013, 11:22 AM
Men – once the dominate sex in nearly every sector of society – seem to be falling far and fast.
A new Pew report finds that 40 percent of households with children under 18 have mothers who are the primary breadwinners – a dramatic rise from just 11 percent in 1960.
Women now earn about 60 percent of university degrees in America and Europe. Single women are increasingly becoming homeowners and a survey by Harris Interactive and Mortgage Marvel this week finds that women are more financially responsible when buying a home.
Of the 41 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 who expressed interest in buying a home this year, 17 percent of men said their finances were “shaky” – whereas only 6 percent of women said the same.
Female breadwinners are also driving up their family wealth - when the mother is the primary breadwinner, the total median family income is nearly $80,000 – $2,000 more than when the husband is the breadwinner, according to the Pew survey.
What exactly has happened to men?
Many trace the beginning of this dramatic gender reversal to the days of the Great Recession when men were being laid off in droves – three-quarters of the 8 million jobs lost were lost by men, mainly in traditionally male-dominated industries like construction, manufacturing and finance.
The decline of labor unions has also disproportionately affected men. But as Hanna Rosin reported in her 2010 Atlantic cover story, “The End of Men,” the “mancession” was just the beginning. Thirteen of the 15 job categories projected to grow in the next decade are dominated by women.
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Females have changed what is important in the workplace. It's no longer most important to be a top performer. Personality and behavior is king and performance is secondary. It's 'STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE' and this same disease now permeates government.
Put the 2012 presidential election in the well-manicured hands of female voters and President Obama has got a re-election on lock. Thanks, ladies! /s
Globalism loves one-person households who are subconciously married to the government. Twice as many homes sold, twice as many mortgages, twice as many sets of furniture, sell more manufactured “convenience” foods, etc.
Globalism loves submissive mice who will work for snips of cheese and finance their habitrail.
Decades of making it easy for women to go to college or job training while the boys were told to go to work out of high school.
I have personally witnessed some of these women who “didn’t need men” in their lives; that was when they were mid to late thirties. Now they are in their early fifties and ALONE. No offspring, no spouse, not even a significant other. Just the cadre of other lonely women their age all scratching their heads wondering what happened.
Females compete over style, appearance, personality.
Males compete over strength, performance, capability.
2000's = Personality review
Suffragette City!
Again, the main problem here is that most jobs held by women are part time jobs in fields such as retail, hospitality, and other fields. The only areas that women win out are in healthcare and education, areas that have yet to take a hit (Healthcare will with Obamacare over the next year, though, it is becoming increasingly hard to get a job with an RN or BSN)
does this poll take into account single mother homes where it’s actually the government that is the primary bread winner?
Time to end affirmative action for women...
Seems like single women having children accounts for a lot of that statistic.
If a man makes enough money to support himself what more is needed?
“A new Pew report finds that 40 percent of households with children under 18 have mothers who are the primary breadwinners – a dramatic rise from just 11 percent in 1960.”
The study goes on to show that only 10 percent of married women earn more than their husband.
The rest? Single mothers. Read into that what you will.
Yes, it does. It states that only 10 percent of married women earn more than their husband.
Which raises the questions - if the rest are all single mothers, how many of them make more than their ‘boyfriends’?
The irony is that many feminists will decry the lack of marriageable, high earning men. Or, heck, in some communities, just men with a stable job.
In the business world women still seem to be the last in each morning and the first out each afternoon; they’re not dominating office jobs. They get toekn titles and salary (to fight off lawsuits), but I’ve only occasionally met women as bright as men.
If passive-aggressive violence includes being hen-pecked to death and then cheated on, then I agree completely...lol
“I work in an office full of women...and that includes the men.” - Ron Swanson
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