Some earn both
Posted on 12/19/2004 8:17:15 PM PST by tbird5
With journalists as well as social scientists continually on the lookout for new trends, the public is regularly treated to the discovery of social "revolutions." One of the latest concerns women and work. In October 2003, Lisa Belkin detected an "opt-out revolution" in her New York Times Magazine article about accomplished women leaving high-powered jobs to stay home with their kids. Six months later, reports on the revolution were still going strong. For example, the March 22, 2004 cover of Time showed a young child clinging to his mother's leg alongside the headline, "The Case for Staying Home: Why More Young Moms Are Opting Out of the Rat Race." But the evidence on this score is thin. Both the New York Times and Time stories are based mainly on evocative anecdotes. Princeton college graduates with law degrees from Harvard staying home to change diapers may be absorbing as a human-interest story. But as the saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data.
The limited empirical evidence offered in support of the opt-out revolution draws upon facts such as these: 22 percent of mothers with graduate degrees are at home with their children, one in three women with an MBA does not work full time, and 26 percent of women approaching the most senior levels of management do not want to be promoted. However, with information of this sort one needs a ouija board to detect a social trend, let alone a revolution. The fact that 57 percent of mothers from the Stanford University class of 1981 stayed home with their young children for at least a year gives no indication of whether the percentage of Stanford graduates remaining at home with their children has increased, decreased, or remained the same over time.
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Shoes.
Make that lots and LOTS of shoes. Mostly differing shades of black with various size heels, LOL.
I know of what I speak. :)
Expensive designer shoes. And gravitas.
BUMP for later reading...I am too tired to read something this long.
Don't ask, they might tell you.
Power and control. And they will break any marriage if they can't get it. American women, by and large, are beyond redemption. American men do not even know what they are missing. For every 1 American woman who still knows how to nurture and take care of her husband, there are 10 screaming witches ripping his guts out daily. (Yeah, I know that the ratio here on FR is actually in favor of Good, not Evil, so hold your flaming arrows. I am speaking about our secular cosiety at large.)
As if I'd tell ;-)
Some earn both
A husband who doesn't yell everytime his wife spends money.
Protection, passion, and to come first in her man's life.
And shoes.
It's twu!!!!
EVERYTHING!
I think I'll grab a beer and wair for the fireworks to fly on this thread.
Amen. American women are by and large hopeless cases. Marraige is NOT recommended to these horror shows.
Ask them!
Thanks for summing that up for us.
You might think you are speaking of society at large, but you've got no clue what you are talking about.
Even the working mothers I know spend more time wiping their husbands butts because the men are incapable in addition to everything else they do to keep their families happy, fed and clothed.
I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience(s)but don't broadbrush the rest of us. And I speak about some of my liberal friends you won't find on FR just as much as the women on FR.
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